{"id":403799,"date":"2026-01-12T18:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/403799\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:28:21","slug":"buffalo-sabres-nhl-to-make-major-announcement-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/403799\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres, NHL to make major announcement Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives from the NHL, along with Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula and other team officials, will hold a press conference Monday night, prior to the Sabres&#8217; game against the Florida Panthers. The press conference is set to start at 6 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press reported Monday morning that, per a source with knowledge of the decision, the league has selected Buffalo to host June&#8217;s NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p>This would mark the fourth time in franchise history Buffalo has hosted the draft. The Sabres previously hosted drafts in 1991, 1998 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s NHL draft will be the second under the league&#8217;s decentralized format, where teams stay in their home cities and draft remotely, rather than bring each team&#8217;s front-office and executive staffs to a predetermined city.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NHL draft will be held June 26-27. The draft lottery is expected to be held in early May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Representatives from the NHL, along with Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula and other team officials, will hold a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1249,1107,229,5133,5,40,4,2944,1108,4093,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-403799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-buffalosabres","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rochester","16":"tag-sabres","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115883547354662963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403799","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=403799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}