{"id":592198,"date":"2026-06-05T23:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/592198\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T23:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:39:18","slug":"ex-sabres-forward-signs-overseas-after-strong-nhl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/592198\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Sabres Forward Signs Overseas After Strong NHL Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Buffalo Sabres<\/a> forward Marcus Johansson<\/a> was heading into the summer as one of the NHL’s top pending unrestricted free agent (UFA) scorers. However, instead of testing the market or re-signing with the Minnesota Wild<\/a>, Johansson is taking his talents overseas.<\/p>\n

Farjestad BK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) has announced that<\/a> they have signed Johansson.<\/p>\n

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Johansson just had a very good season for the Wild, posting 15 goals, 34 assists, and 49 points in 75 games. This was the first time since 2022-23 that Johansson recorded at least 40 points and the second-most points he had in an NHL season. While this is the case, Johansson is heading home to play in the SHL.<\/p>\n

Johansson played in 60 games for the Sabres during the 2019-20 season, where he recorded 13 goals, 17 assists, and 30 points. His time with the Sabres ended during the 2020 NHL off-season when he was traded to the Wild in exchange for Eric Staal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1,058 career NHL games over 16 seasons, he posted 200 goals, 366 assists, and 566 points. Overall, the former Sabre had himself a strong NHL career, and he should be a big pickup for Farjestad BK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Buffalo Sabres forward Marcus Johansson was heading into the summer as one of the NHL’s top pending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[229,5681,5,1118,38,4,60,14,104,718,2208,1491,6615],"class_list":["post-592198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl-playoffs","category-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-eric-staal","tag-hockey","tag-marcus-johansson","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-playoffs","tag-stanley-cup","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl","tag-swedish-hockey-league","tag-the-wild","tag-unrestricted-free-agent"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116700142883846459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592198","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=592198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}