Sabres re-sign Patrick Kaleta to multi-year contract

Started by sharonorn, Apr 09, 2025, 09:55 AM

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Apr 09, 2025, 09:55 AM
The Buffalo announced on Tuesday  Yermin Mercedes Jersey afternoon that they have re-signed forward to a multi-year contract. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but .The 26-year-old Kaleta was a restricted free agent this summer and was coming off a two-year contract that paid him just a little over $907,000 per season.A sixth-round pick by the Sabres back in 2004, Kaleta has  Luke Appling Jersey spent his entire career with the team and has scored 26 goals in 267 career regular season games. He's an extremely physical player and the type of guy that always seems to get under his opponents skin. He sometimes takes it a bit too far. Earlier this season, James McCann Jersey  for example, he was suspended four games by the NHL for head-butting Philadelphia Flyers forward Jakub Voracek. It was the third time in le s than two years he was involved in such an incident.   In 63 games during the 2011-12 season Kaleta scored five goals to go with five a sists while also leading  Frank Thomas Jersey the team with 116 penalty minutes.He was also one of Buffalo's top penalty killers this past season, averaging nearly two minutes of short-handed ice-time per game. It was the first time he was given such a role in those situations. While  Nicky Delmonico Jersey the Sabres were just 19th in the NHL last season on the penalty kill, than they did without him.   .
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