{"id":547669,"date":"2026-04-08T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547669\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:24:19","slug":"rasmus-dahlin-named-sabres-nominee-for-masterton-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547669\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasmus Dahlin named Sabres&#8217; nominee for Masterton Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rasmus Dahlin has been selected as the Buffalo Sabres&#8217; representative for the\u00a02026 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, which is given &#8220;to the NHL player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Professional Hockey Writers Association nominates one player from each team for the annual award.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced later this spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dahlin seeks to become the third Sabres player to win the award. Former Sabres Don Luce (1975) and Pat LaFontaine (1995) were previous winners. Dahlin is having a career year with 18 goals and 52 assists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This season, the former first-overall pick has led the Sabres to their first Stanley Cup Playoffs appearance since 2011, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/sports\/2026\/04\/04\/buffalo-sabres-clinch-playoff-spot-for-first-time-in-14-years\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breaking a 14-year postseason drought<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rasmus Dahlin has been selected as the Buffalo Sabres&#8217; representative for the\u00a02026 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, which is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1249,5894,1107,229,5133,5,40,4,2944,1108,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-547669","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-brian-campbell","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-buffalo-sabres","12":"tag-buffalosabres","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-rochester","17":"tag-sabres","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116370018777813089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547669","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=547669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}