The Buffalo Sabres and Ryan O'Reilly have agreed to a new contract that will keep the veteran forward with the team for seven years.
Ian Ott of SabresDigitalPressBox.com reported O'Reilly's seven-year extension with the Sabres.
Elliotte Friedman of Hockey Night in Canada reported that Buffalo will pay O'Reilly an average salary of $7.5 million for the duration of his contract, putting the total value of the deal around $52.5 million.
O'Reilly's deal with the Sabres comes one week after the team acquired him along with Jamie McGinn from Colorado in exchange for Nikita Zadorov, Mikhail Grigorenko, J.