{"id":427812,"date":"2026-01-25T19:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/427812\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:35:12","slug":"trade-sabres-hurricanes-make-1-for-1-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/427812\/","title":{"rendered":"TRADE: Sabres &#038; Hurricanes Make 1-for-1 Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj-JtwHyMwdnGoBGpASOGqTDIwDAaJxCfYnxSVe_FTH2f_sHK6VkWhcAAngLBettDFitTBj211duKm0W1TYYhJ-1kucIaJI9rpYSmvbjkAR5kuXVZ-EaBUEeB4FRbK5PT9LJk8ut1xI1bMIR9FJg19acdTsLHL9WgVlzM0aW60qeMghAucgXLaTmK9I74Y\/s4316\/USATSI_27176099.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2794\" data-original-width=\"4316\" height=\"259\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/USATSI_27176099.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Carolina Hurricanes and Buffalo Sabres pulled of a very minor one-for-one trade over the weekend as the two teams announced the Sabres have acquired defenceman Gavin Bayreuther from the Hurricanes in exchange for forward prospect Viktor Neuchev.<\/p>\n<p>Bayreuther, 31, has been a staple on the Chicago Wolves of the AHL this season, scoring four times and collecting 13 points in 33 games. He&#8217;s a 6-foot-2 left-shot blueliner who is under contract through the 2026 season at an NHL price tag of $775,000.<\/p>\n<p>Neuchev, 22, is an up-and-coming prospect who has yet to be given much of a shot to show what he can do. The Sabres selected him in the 2022 NHL draft, 74th overall. The 5-foot-11 winger has scored six goals and 16 points in 34 games with the AHL&#8217;s Rochester Americans and is also in the final season of his contract.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Buffalo Sabres have acquired defenseman Gavin Bayreuther from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for forward Viktor Neuchev and assigned Bayreuther to the Rochester Americans (AHL). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y9bJVBKgmB\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Y9bJVBKgmB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Buffalo Sabres PR (@SabresPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SabresPR\/status\/2015167802995261583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sabres have been battling some injuries of late and needed another depth option on their blueline, and are able to land one in Bayreuther, who comes at a very reasonable cost, and could be given a shot at some NHL action very soon.<\/p>\n<p>As for Neuchev, the Chelyabinsk, Russia product has produced 24 goals and 66 points in 130 games over three seasons with AHL Rochester, but was unable to crack the Sabres roster.  <\/p>\n<p>Photo credit:\u00a0\u00a0Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Hurricanes and Buffalo Sabres pulled of a very minor one-for-one trade over the weekend as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,181,195,4,465,550,106,60,107,549,548,546,547],"class_list":{"0":"post-427812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hockey-news","13":"tag-hurricanes","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-draft","16":"tag-nhl-free-agency","17":"tag-nhl-news","18":"tag-nhl-playoffs","19":"tag-nhl-rumors","20":"tag-nhl-teams","21":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","22":"tag-nhl-trade-rumors","23":"tag-nhl-trades"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115957421143842763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427812","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=427812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}