The Sabers have signed F Kyle Okposo to a 1-year contract

THE Buffalo Sabres bring back their captain Kyle Okposo for the 2023-2024 season

The team re-signed the 35-year-old to a one-year contract worth $2.5 million on Wednesday. It will be Okposo’s 17th campaign in the NHL and eighth in Buffalo.

“I can’t say enough good things about him as a person, what he did in the locker room.” Sword General manager Kevyn Adams said at the end of the season. “I see it over and over again, day in and day out, players come down, no matter what’s going on in their lives, they talk to him. And I think we’re lucky to have him with us.

Okposo just completed the seven-year, $42 million contract he signed in the 2016 offseason.

He recorded 28 points (11 goals, 17 assists) last season. He scored 592 points (230 goals, 362 assists) in 984 games with the New York Islanders (2007-2016). Sword. The Islanders selected Okposo No. 7 overall in the 2006 draft

— Field Level Media