{"id":161235,"date":"2022-06-30T19:59:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T19:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/goaile-craig-anderson-signs-one-year-1-5m-deal-to-stay-with-sabres"},"modified":"2022-06-30T19:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T19:59:59","slug":"goaile-craig-anderson-signs-one-year-1-5m-deal-to-stay-with-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/goaile-craig-anderson-signs-one-year-1-5m-deal-to-stay-with-sabres","title":{"rendered":"Goaile Craig Anderson signs one-year, $1.5M deal to stay with Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Sabres goaltender Craig Anderson will return to the team next season. Kim Klement-USA TODAY SportsGoaltender Craig Anderson isn&#8217;t ready to ride off into the sunset of retirement just yet. According to The Associated Press (h\/t ESPN) and the NHL website, Anderson has agreed to a one-year contract to remain with the Buffalo Sabres. The 41-year-old could have become an unrestricted free agent on July 13 but instead is set to earn $1.5 million during the 2022-23 season. Anderson was one of multiple Buffalo goalies who endured setbacks during what became a legitimate crisis for the club at the position this past season. In total, he made 31 starts for the Sabres in 2021-22 and went 17-12-2 with a 3.12 goals-against average and .897 save percentage. The AP notes that Anderson considered retirement due to family and health reasons. &#8220;It says a lot about Craig and his family and also how he feels about the coaching staff, the players, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goaltender Craig Anderson isn&#8217;t ready to ride off into the sunset of retirement just yet. According to The Associated Press (h\/t ESPN) and the NHL website, Anderson has agreed to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,149,58],"class_list":["post-161235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}