{"id":47591,"date":"2019-08-03T19:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=47591"},"modified":"2019-08-03T19:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T23:22:20","slug":"linus-ullmark-re-signs-with-buffalo-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/08\/03\/linus-ullmark-re-signs-with-buffalo-sabres\/","title":{"rendered":"Linus Ullmark Re-Signs With Buffalo Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sabres\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Buffalo Sabres<\/a> have re-signed goaltender <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/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><\/strong> to a one-year contract. The new deal comes it at a $1.325 million cap hit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have agreed to terms with goaltender Linus Ullmark on a one-year contract with an average annual value of $1.325 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xo3VriUX7x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Xo3VriUX7x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloSabres\/status\/1157773173695438848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/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> Staying in Buffalo<\/h2>\n<p>Ullmark has spent his entire three-year career with the Sabres.\u00a0 He has put up a 24-27-7 career record in 63 career appearances with 58 career starts. He also has a 2.87 goals-against-average, .910 save percentage, and two shutouts.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Ullmark played in 37 games with 34 starts for the Sabres. He put up a 15-14-5 record with a 3.11 goals-against-average and .905 save percentage and two shutouts. It was his first year of over 20 games played. He&#8217;s spent most of the last few seasons in the AHL, with the Rochester Americans. During the 2017-18 season, he played in 44 games with Rochester. In that span, he tallied an impressive .922 save percentage and a goals-against-average of 2.44. His solid save percentage ranked among the top ten in the league, tied with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/berrare01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reto Berra<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Ville Husso<\/strong> for sixth.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>In Ullmark&#8217;s first full year with the Sabres, he served as the back-up to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/huttoca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carter Hutton<\/a><\/strong>. Goaltending has been an issue for the Sabres over the past few seasons including last season where both goalies had a goal-against-average of at least three. Ullmark showed some potential by putting up a winning record with the Sabres last season but will continue to serve as the back-up next season.<\/p>\n<p>While he will still carry the backup title, Ullmark does hold quite a bit of responsibility with the Sabres. They&#8217;ll look towards the 26-year-old goaltender to remain steady in net as the team in front of him gets slowly improved. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/botteja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Botterill<\/a><\/strong>, Sabres general manager, has already taken strides to improve the Sabres defence. The addition of players like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/milleco02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colin Miller<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/jokihhe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henri Jokiharju<\/a><\/strong> could work wonders for the team. At the very least, it&#8217;d be no surprise to see the additions on defence help bolster Ullmark&#8217;s stat-line next year.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"KN_nMam_SCpt3xREnlhCkA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1133243071\" 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:'KN_nMam_SCpt3xREnlhCkA',sig:'pThmWlT5CmU6tyCwMvymSfkqIPb_yYokXxTwuRK_wVA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1133243071',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 re-signed goaltender Linus Ullmark to a one-year contract. The new deal comes it at a $1.325 million cap hit. We have agreed to terms with goaltender Linus Ullmark on a one-year contract with an average annual value of $1.325 million. pic.twitter.com\/Xo3VriUX7x &mdash; Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) August 3, 2019 Linus Ullmark Staying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":53187,"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":[3,34],"tags":[182,3476,955],"class_list":["post-47591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sabres","category-news","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-linus-ullmark","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47591","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\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}