{"id":86455,"date":"2020-10-10T18:50:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T22:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=86455"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:23:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:23:56","slug":"brandon-montour-signs-with-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/10\/10\/brandon-montour-signs-with-sabres\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Montour Re-Signs with the Buffalo Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/sabres\/\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> have signed free-agent defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/montobr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Montour<\/a> to a contract. Terms of the deal are yet to be disclosed. The deal comes right before the arbitration filing deadline.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hearing that Brandon Montour agreed to a contract with the Sabres before the arb filing deadline<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1315045562476097536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Sabres Bring Back Brandon Montour<\/h2>\n<p>Over his five-year NHL career, Montour has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/ducks\/\" target=\"_self\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/sabres\/\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>. He has put up\u00a024\u00a0goals and\u00a067\u00a0assists for\u00a091\u00a0career points in\u00a0243 career games. Last season he scored 5 goals and 13 assists for 18 points. He also added 28 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 48.1 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of -2.7.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim drafted Montour 55th overall in the second round of the 2014 NHL draft. In three years with the Ducks, Montour posted very good numbers (16 goals, 42 assists in 169 games). He looked like a lock to be in the top four going forward. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/vegas-golden-knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>&#8216; expansion draft, general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=murrabo02,murrabo01&amp;search=Bob+Murray&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bob Murray<\/a> traded away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/theodsh01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shea Theodore<\/a> to protect his young defence core that included Montour.<\/p>\n<p>As the Ducks started to quickly decline in the 2018\u201319, Montour\u2019s numbers started to suffer with the rest of the team and he was traded to Buffalo for defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/guhlebr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brendan Guhle<\/a> and a first-round pick in the 2019 NHL entry draft. In Buffalo, Montour finished the last 20 games of the season posting 10 points (3-7) and a 54.7 Corsi rating.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019\u201320 season started badly for Montour as he suffered a hand injury in the preseason which caused him to miss 14 games. Following the injury, he never seemed to find a consistent spot in the lineup and he posted the worst numbers of his career scoring five goals and adding 13 assists for 28 points in 54 games.<\/p>\n<h3>Moving Forward<\/h3>\n<p>In Montour, the Sabres have acquired an outstanding skater with some untapped offensive potential. Montour, meanwhile, will have the opportunity to restart his once-promising career after enduring such a bad year in the Buffalo system. New general manager Kevyn Adams and coach Ralph Krueger are hoping for a bounce-back season.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"kTghaV7rQQt290XovHuGCw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1205870131\" 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:'kTghaV7rQQt290XovHuGCw',sig:'pxyLtGNY4ORuyEWs0e0zKJTNECOJhh0sWElXyd1Kcto=',w:'594px',h:'442px',items:'1205870131',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 signed free-agent defenceman Brandon Montour to a contract. Terms of the deal are yet to be disclosed. The deal comes right before the arbitration filing deadline. Hearing that Brandon Montour agreed to a contract with the Sabres before the arb filing deadline &mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) October 10, 2020 Sabres Bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3487,"featured_media":87437,"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":[2425,182,5738,5168,2569,955,615],"class_list":["post-86455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sabres","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-brandon-montour","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-hockey-news","tag-kevyn-adams","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-ralph-krueger"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86455","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\/3487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}