{"id":116103,"date":"2021-07-28T22:32:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T02:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=116103"},"modified":"2021-07-28T22:32:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T02:32:31","slug":"buffalo-sabres-sign-aaron-dell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/28\/buffalo-sabres-sign-aaron-dell\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres Sign Aaron Dell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres have signed unrestricted free agent goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dellaa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Dell<\/a> to a one-year contract worth $750,000. This contract carries him through the 2021-22 season. The team announced the deal on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have signed goaltender Aaron Dell to a one-year contract worth $750,000.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Sabres, Aaron!<\/p>\n<p>Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1gUxfi8Nzd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/1gUxfi8Nzd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XePrNjxTWI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/XePrNjxTWI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloSabres\/status\/1420563560074289153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Aaron Dell Inks Deal with Buffalo<\/h2>\n<p>Over his five-year NHL career, Dell has played for the San Jose Sharks and the New Jersey Devils. He has a career record of 49 wins, 39 wins and 12 overtime losses. The Airdrie, Alberta native has a career goals-against-average of 2.83 and a save percentage of .906. Dell also has five career shutouts and they all came with the Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he only played in seven games and had a record of one win and five losses. He had a 4.14 goals-against-average and a .857 save percentage with New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>He signed as an undrafted free agent in 2015 with the Sharks. Dell won 30 games with the University of North Dakota in 2010-11. He worked his way from the Central Hockey League, ECHL and AHL to carve out an NHL career. His best NHL season was with the Sharks with a 15-54 record and 2.64 GAA in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Dell looks like he&#8217;s going to compete with the recently-signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/andercr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Anderson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/luukkuk01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a> for the number one job in Buffalo. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/28\/linus-ullmark-goes-to-boston-bruins\/\" target=\"_self\">Sabres inexplicably let<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/u\/ullmali01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linus Ullmark<\/a> go to the Boston Bruins after not re-signing him.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old will probably get a few starts with the Sabres, as they will likely be in the mix to get the right to draft Shane Wright in the 2022 NHL Draft. Buffalo has taken a lot of low-cost contracts and made some moves to burn the whole thing down&#8230; again.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like another long winter in Western New York, but Dell should get some time in net. He may play well enough to get moved out to a contender at the deadlien.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"rcMNlFn8TwFiGcaDSBt6Vw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1232483037\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'rcMNlFn8TwFiGcaDSBt6Vw',sig:'2z8l5BaxRFIH4f2QZeTWmMD7IzILtFc7iAAVcA9NOCc=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1232483037',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres have signed unrestricted free agent goalie Aaron Dell to a one-year contract worth $750,000. This contract carries him through the 2021-22 season. The team announced the deal on Wednesday evening. We have signed goaltender Aaron Dell to a one-year contract worth $750,000. Welcome to the Sabres, Aaron! Details: https:\/\/t.co\/1gUxfi8Nzd pic.twitter.com\/XePrNjxTWI &mdash; Buffalo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":116105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4547,34,4548],"tags":[768,3476,662,955,1637],"class_list":["post-116103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sabres","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-craig-anderson","tag-linus-ullmark","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news","tag-ukko-pekka-luukkonen"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}