{"id":51444,"date":"2019-07-12T12:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=51444"},"modified":"2019-07-12T12:34:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:34:30","slug":"buffalo-sabres-re-sign-forward-johan-larsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/07\/12\/buffalo-sabres-re-sign-forward-johan-larsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres Re-Sign Forward Johan Larsson"},"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 restricted free agent center\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/larssjo02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johan Larsson<\/a><\/strong> to a one-year contract worth $1.55 million. This contract carries him through the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Buffalo Sabres today announced the team has signed forward Johan Larsson to a one-year contract with an AAV of $1.55 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/itqBSlBG9n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/itqBSlBG9n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buffalo Sabres PR (@SabresPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SabresPR\/status\/1149708247726735360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Johan Larsson Signs With the Buffalo Sabres<\/h1>\n<p>Over his\u00a07-year NHL career, Larsson has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> and the Sabres. He has put up 32\u00a0goals and 47\u00a0assists for 79\u00a0career points in 331\u00a0career games. He was originally drafted in the 2nd round, 56th\u00a0overall of the 2010\u00a0NHL draft by the Wild.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he scored 6 goals and 8 assists for 14 points. He also added 37 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 49.5 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of -0.9.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>With the Sabres signing Larsson to a one year deal allows them to keep their depth forward for another season for very little money. Larsson has never been a huge offensive contributor only having a career-high of 10 goals and 17 points in 2015-16, but he can still provide value in a 3rd or 4th line role with sheltered usage. Johan Larsson also played for the 2018 Swedish IIHF World Championship team that took home the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Larsson is coming off a two-year, 1.475 AAV contract. By accepting the 1.55 million, Larsson is accepting his qualifying offer.\u00a0Larsson came to Buffalo from Minnesota as a piece in the trade that sent\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pominja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Pominville<\/a><\/strong> to the Wild. He has been with the Sabres since and just finished playing his sixth NHL season with the team.<\/p>\n<p>The question for the Sabres moves to their top-end now, looking for a potential 2nd line center to fill in for the team. It has been something the organization has needed ever since the Sabres sent eventual Conn Smythe winner\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/oreilry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan O&#8217;Reilly<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blues\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"1nj_-MPBQyhE32TqhaX3zQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1133243046\" 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:'1nj_-MPBQyhE32TqhaX3zQ',sig:'nmPfxllEJjXBp42ShWeguNnBaCzgmMSV7SEjHyxmBPI=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1133243046',caption: true ,tld:'ca',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 restricted free agent center\u00a0Johan Larsson to a one-year contract worth $1.55 million. This contract carries him through the 2019-20 season. The Buffalo Sabres today announced the team has signed forward Johan Larsson to a one-year contract with an AAV of $1.55 million. https:\/\/t.co\/itqBSlBG9n &mdash; Buffalo Sabres PR (@SabresPR) July 12, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":51446,"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":[182,37,417,2022,38,218],"class_list":["post-51444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sabres","category-news","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-hockey","tag-jason-pominville","tag-johan-larsson","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-oreilly"],"modified_by":"Oscar Elieff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51444","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\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}