{"id":486101,"date":"2026-03-05T02:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486101\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T02:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:45:14","slug":"sabres-finalizing-deal-for-colton-parayko-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486101\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres Finalizing Deal For Colton Parayko \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/2029308855604089038\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to TSN\u2019s Darren Dreger<\/a>, the Buffalo Sabres are moving toward acquiring defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/parayco01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colton Parayko<\/a> from the St. Louis Blues. Dreger noted that the trade is still being finalized and that both teams are waiting to see if Parayko will waive his no-trade clause to join the Sabres. Dreger <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/2029310647469510953\" rel=\"nofollow\">later added<\/a> that defensive prospect <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/872673\/radim-mrtka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Radim Mrtka<\/a> and a first-round pick will be a part of the deal. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/frank_seravalli\/status\/2029313390737502671\" rel=\"nofollow\">Insider Frank Seravalli reported<\/a> that the framework of the trade is complete, but Parayko has not yet signed off on it.<\/p>\n<p>It would obviously be a seismic trade for the Sabres, especially if nothing is coming off the NHL roster. Buffalo already has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/byrambo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bowen Byram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dahlira01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rasmus Dahlin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/powerow01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Owen Power<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/samuema02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mattias Samuelsson<\/a> in the top four of their defensive corps. Parayko has been on the top pairing in St. Louis for nearly a decade, and is signed through the 2029-30 season at an affordable $6.5MM salary.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to TSN\u2019s Darren Dreger, the Buffalo Sabres are moving toward acquiring defenseman Colton Parayko from the St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[229,1476,5,30,672,84],"class_list":["post-486101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-colton-parayko","tag-hockey","tag-newsstand","tag-radim-mrtka","tag-st-louis-blues"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116174279456232618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486101","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=486101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}