Friedman: Will Sabres' Hodgson be a buyout candidate?
/Elliotte Friedman was on Edmonton’s 630 CHED on Friday afternoon.
On what has happened to some of the go-to guys on the Buffalo Sabres:
“Hodgson has been the biggest one. And I wonder if he’s a buyout candidate at the end of the year, honestly. If he’s a guy who’s going to end up being in that position where the Sabres try and buy him out. Because he’s been a fourth-liner this year. They’ve even moved him off center. Clearly he’s in Ted Nolan’s dog house. Maybe – I don’t know – maybe he just needs a fresh start somewhere.
“I was a huge Cody Hodgson fan when he got drafted because I saw him a bit here playing in the Ontario Hockey League. And I don’t know whether it was his back injury, or whatever happened to him in Vancouver – him and Alain Vigneault were not on the same page – but he has seriously not been the same player.
“And I wonder if at this point in time he does get a buyout at the end of the year.”
Source: 630 CHED/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey
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