{"id":438244,"date":"2023-06-21T07:53:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438244"},"modified":"2023-06-21T07:53:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:53:56","slug":"zemgus-girgensons-signs-to-one-year-extension-at-sabres","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/zemgus-girgensons-signs-to-one-year-extension-at-sabres\/","title":{"rendered":"Zemgus Girgensons signs to one-year extension at Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres have agreed terms with their main striker Zemgus Girgensons, who will stay at the club for one more year with a contract extension, worth $2.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Girgensons was on the verge of becoming a free agent on July 1, but he has put pen to paper with the team he has spent the last 9 seasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">STAYING IN BUFFALO \ud83e\uddac<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloSabres?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BuffaloSabres<\/a> have signed Zemgus Girgensons to a one-year deal! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kxWeyNRBoP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kxWeyNRBoP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1671250187153539072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old finished the last campaign with 10 goals and 8 assists for 18 points in 80 games. Girgensons started only 41.6 percent of the games as a forward, which just underlines how Sabres&#8217; head-coach Don Granato values his flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres main goal for the remainder of the offseason is to find a goaltender to bolster their already impressive roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres have agreed terms with their main striker Zemgus Girgensons, who will stay at the club for one more year with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":438245,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16743],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[18104,20019],"acf":{"announce":"The Buffalo team keeps one of its star players to bolster their chances for next season","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438244"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438244"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}