{"id":613626,"date":"2026-07-03T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/613626\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:45:23","slug":"sabres-sign-forward-aidan-mcdonough-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/613626\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres sign forward Aidan McDonough to one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo, N.Y. (WGR Sports Radio 550) &#8211; The Buffalo Sabres continue to add assets for their roster in the American Hockey League this upcoming season, signing forward Aidan McDonough to a one-year, two-way contract on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old has mostly been a minor league player over the course of his professional career. However, he does have six NHL games to his credit in the 2022-23 season, playing with the Vancouver Canucks after signing his entry-level contract out of college or Northeastern University. In his brief NHL action, McDonough has one goal.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the Milton, Mass. native has appeared in 139 AHL games with the Abbotsford Canucks, Charlotte Checkers and Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins, where he has scored 44 goals and added 35 assists for 79 points.<\/p>\n<p>McDonough was a former seventh-round pick (195th overall) of the Canucks in the 2019 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo, N.Y. (WGR Sports Radio 550) &#8211; The Buffalo Sabres continue to add assets for their roster in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[19605,967,1107,229,5133,5,4,550,1108,60626],"class_list":["post-613626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-buffalo-sabres","tag-aidan-mcdonough","tag-breaking-news","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-buffalosabres","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-sabres","tag-wgr"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116856115966672654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613626","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=613626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}