Sabres and Skinner agree on a big new contract
John Vogl of The Athletic: Jeff Skinner and the Buffalo Sabres have agreed on an eight-year contract extension worth $72 million – a $9 million AAV.
The Sabres are have scored the least amount of goals in the league since 2011 and Skinner’s greatest value was with the Sabres.
The Sabres still have over $11 million in salary cap space. Next offseason they have $20 million coming off the books.
The Sabres are not deep on the left side at all and if he’d left, he would have left behind a huge hole.