{"id":486036,"date":"2026-03-05T02:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486036\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T02:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:04:11","slug":"buffalo-sabres-finalizing-deal-with-st-louis-blues-for-defenceman-colton-parayko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486036\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres finalizing deal with St. Louis Blues for defenceman Colton Parayko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> are taking a big swing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger reports the team is finalizing a deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> for defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/colton-parayko\/8476892\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/colton-parayko\/8476892\" target=\"_blank\">Colton Parayko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dreger notes that player approval is still required, but the belief is that the deal will get done. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/radim-mrtka\/8485404\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/radim-mrtka\/8485404\" target=\"_blank\">Radim Mrtka<\/a> and a first-round pick will be part of the return for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Parayko, 32, is in the fourth year of an eight-year, $52 million deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of St. Albert, Alta., Parayko is in his 11th NHL season. He\u2019s appeared in 58 games this season, averaging 22:24 of ice-time a night. He has a goal and 14 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Originally taken with the 86th overall pick in 2012 NHL Entry Draft, Parayko has appeared in 781 career games. He has 78 goals and 231 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Parayko was a key part of the Blues team that won the 2019 Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Internationally, Parayko has represented Canada on a number of occasions, including as part of a silver medal-winning effort at last month\u2019s Milano-Cortina Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres are taking a big swing. TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger reports the team is finalizing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,32571,58044,5,4,33561],"class_list":{"0":"post-486036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-7","10":"tag-colton-parayko-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476892","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-st-louis-blues-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-19"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116174118279003927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486036","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=486036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}