{"id":399338,"date":"2026-01-10T12:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/399338\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:08:22","slug":"buffalo-sabres-reassign-zachary-jones-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/399338\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres Reassign Zachary Jones \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buffalo Sabres announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve reassigned depth defenseman Zachary Jones<\/a> to the AHL\u2019s Rochester Americans. The Sabres are now down to six defensemen on the active roster.<\/p>\n

Since the team has an upcoming five-game homestand beginning tomorrow night against the Anaheim Ducks, they may be able to wait a few days before recalling another defenseman if the rest of the core is fully healthy. Still, since Michael Kesselring<\/a> won\u2019t be eligible for activation until Buffalo\u2019s January 14th contest against the Philadelphia Flyers, it wouldn\u2019t be surprising to see them recall a different option, such as Ryan Johnson<\/a> for a day or two.<\/p>\n

Despite being the second recall of the year for Jones, he has yet to play a game for the Sabres. After being non-tendered by the New York Rangers last offseason, Jones quickly signed a one-year, $900K agreement with Buffalo on the opening day of free agency.<\/p>\n

Although he may have liked to get into an NHL contest by now, it\u2019s been all AHL for the former 68th overall pick of the 2019 NHL Draft. Given his output with AHL Rochester this season, it\u2019s somewhat surprising that the Sabres haven\u2019t gotten him at least one look.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, Jones has scored three goals and 31 points in 28 games for the Americans, leading the team in scoring. He\u2019s only two points back of Ryan Ufko<\/a> for the highest-scoring defenseman in the AHL with four fewer games played. If he continues his current pace, it\u2019ll be surprising if Jones doesn\u2019t come home with the Eddie Shore Award, annually given to the league\u2019s top defenseman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres announced that they\u2019ve reassigned depth defenseman Zachary Jones to the AHL\u2019s Rochester Americans. The Sabres…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,229,5133,5,4,1108,405,35591],"class_list":{"0":"post-399338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-buffalo","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres","10":"tag-buffalosabres","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sabres","14":"tag-transactions","15":"tag-zachary-jones"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115870728618032843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}