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Sabres Avoid Arbitration, Sign Timmins to 2-Year Contract
ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK, JUL 27 – Conor Timmins signs a two-year, $4.4 million contract with the Sabres, avoiding arbitration and joining as the team’s fifth defenseman in six NHL seasons.
- On July 27, 2025, the Buffalo Sabres secured defenseman Conor Timmins with a contract lasting two seasons and valued at $4.4 million, successfully averting a salary arbitration hearing.
- The signing came after the Sabres traded a second-round selection along with Connor Clifton to Pittsburgh in exchange for Timmins and Isaac Belliveau on June 28.
- Timmins, 26, played 68 games last season between Toronto and Pittsburgh, scoring three goals and totaling 15 points across 159 NHL games in six seasons.
- The deal leaves goaltender Devon Levi as the Sabres' only remaining unsigned restricted free agent, while Alex Tuch remains a key Sabres player with 106 goals in 281 games.
- Timmins' two-year contract stabilizes the Sabres' defense corps and follows nearly four years since trading star Jack Eichel, who won the 2023 Stanley Cup with Vegas and is eligible for an eight-year extension.
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Sabres avoid arbitration, sign Timmins to 2-year contract
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- The Buffalo Sabres avoided a salary arbitration hearing with Conor Timmins by signing the newly acquired defenseman to a two-year, $4.4 million contract on Sunday. The 26-year-old Timmins was a restricted free agent and acquired with defenseman Isaac Beliveau in a trade that sent blue-liner Connor Clifton to the Pittsburgh Penguins on June 28. The Sabres are Timmins’ fifth team in six NHL seasons since the 2017 second-round…
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Sabres avoid arbitration by signing defenseman Connor Timmins to 2-year, $4.4 million contract
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Sabres avoided a salary arbitration hearing with Conor Timmins by signing the newly acquired defenseman to a two-year, $4.4 million contract on Sunday.
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