{"id":532005,"date":"2026-03-31T00:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532005\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:42:37","slug":"buffalo-sabres-recall-zach-metsa-pro-hockey-rumors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532005\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres Recall Zach Metsa \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

As expected, the Buffalo Sabres have recalled defenseman Zach Metsa<\/a> from the AHL\u2019s Rochester Americans, according to a team announcement<\/a>. Metsa was reassigned just a few days ago due to the activation<\/a> of fellow defenseman Conor Timmins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Simply put, the Sabres have just been better this season when Metsa is in the lineup. Throughout the year, Buffalo has a 29-5-4 record when Metsa is playing, and a 16-16-4 record when he isn\u2019t. He\u2019s not necessarily a game-changing defenseman like Rasmus Dahlin<\/a>, but the team is clearly comfortable when Metsa is earning minutes.<\/p>\n

Despite how Timmins has played since returning, he\u2019ll likely be the odd man out when the Sabres get Metsa back into the lineup. Metsa isn\u2019t relied upon to kill penalties like Timmins, but the two have held a similar role this season on the right side of the bottom pairing.<\/p>\n

Throughout his rookie season, Metsa has put up solid production given his ice time, scoring two goals and six points in 38 games with a +20 rating, averaging 10:19 of action per game. Still, his 45.6% CorsiFor at even strength and 1.9 E+\/- indicates that he\u2019s gotten a bit of puck luck.\u00a0 However, that\u2019s been true of the entire Sabres team throughout their historic run this season.<\/p>\n

The team has hovered around a 103.0 PDO (shooting percentage + save percentage at even strength), which indicates that they are due for regression at some point. Teams will typically average a flat 100.0 throughout the season, with teams on either side of that trending toward it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As expected, the Buffalo Sabres have recalled defenseman Zach Metsa from the AHL\u2019s Rochester Americans, according to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,229,5133,5,4,1108,405,36854],"class_list":{"0":"post-532005","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-zach-metsa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116321019768189400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532005","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=532005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}