{"id":470984,"date":"2025-07-01T09:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=470984"},"modified":"2025-07-01T09:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:39:24","slug":"buffalo-sabres-sign-32-year-old-goaltender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/07\/01\/buffalo-sabres-sign-32-year-old-goaltender\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Buffalo Sabres Sign 32-Year old Goaltender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/28\/sabres-defence-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/buffalo-sabres-sign-alex-lyon-contract-detroit-free-agent?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=bluesky\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have signed<\/a> goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lyonal01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Lyon<\/a> to a contract. Financial terms of the deal have not be released. Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman was first to report the deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:3uus7y6h3rlrk6sbctzxm4bg\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lsvp3mma5z23\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreieqbcstd6jj3dp2fsr56hpe3lybg4onb722qyhdrduuivnaqp7ose\">\n<p>Report: Sabres to sign free agent Alex Lyon<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:3uus7y6h3rlrk6sbctzxm4bg?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DailyFaceoff.com (@dailyfaceoff.bsky.social)<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:3uus7y6h3rlrk6sbctzxm4bg\/post\/3lsvp3mma5z23?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2025-07-01T12:27:05Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Buffalo Sabres Sign Alex Lyon<\/h2>\n<p>Last season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?s=Detroit+red+wings\" target=\"_self\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>, Lyon posted a 14-9-1 record alongside a .896 save percentage and a 2.81 goals against average. Lyon&#8217;s GAA was his lowest since the 2017-18 season. However, it is worth noting that Lyon only played in 11 games that season, compared to the 30 he played in last season.<\/p>\n<h3>Increased Role in Detroit<\/h3>\n<p>After playing in just 39 games his first six seasons in the league, Lyon saw an increased role with the Red Wings. The Red Wings were in a tough spot with their goaltending due to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/10\/15\/two-year-old-trade-officially-a-st-louis-win\/\" target=\"_self\">ineffectiveness<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hussovi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ville Husso<\/a>. With Lyon, the Red Wings started playing competitive hockey again. In the 2023-24 season, the Wings remained in playoff contention until the last day of the regular season. Last season, the Wings <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/09\/10\/2024-25-puck-drop-preview-detroit-red-wings\/\" target=\"_self\">entered the season as a dark-horse candidate to make the playoffs<\/a>. While they ultimately missed the playoffs, they were in contention.<\/p>\n<h3>Will Increased Role and Experience Help Lyon With His New Team?<\/h3>\n<p>Lyon has spent the last two seasons helping the Red Wings return to contention. This could help Lyon with his new team. The 32-year old has shown he is a reliable goaltender in this league. He was not the only reason the Red Wings found themselves in contention, but to say he did not play a role at all would be incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres have not made the playoffs since the 2010-11 season. The team has certainly had stars on their team and do today, but have been unable to find a way to make the talent translate into a playoff berth. Lyon has experience on a contending team which will only help the Sabres as they look to get over the hump.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Ron Chenoy- Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres have signed goaltender Alex Lyon to a contract. Financial terms of the deal have not be released. Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman was first to report the deal. Report: Sabres to sign free agent Alex Lyon &mdash; DailyFaceoff.com (@dailyfaceoff.bsky.social) 2025-07-01T12:27:05Z Buffalo Sabres Sign Alex Lyon Last season with the Detroit Red Wings, Lyon posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3464,"featured_media":470991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[34,3,4547,4548],"tags":[604,5833,5911,662],"class_list":["post-470984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sabres","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-alex-lyon","tag-buffalo-sabres-news","tag-detroit-red-wings-news","tag-nhl-free-agency"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470984","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\/3464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470984"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471690,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470984\/revisions\/471690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}