Taylor Hall is teaming up with Jack Eichel in Buffalo.
The top forward on the 2020 free-agent market, and arguably top prize overall, has signed a one-year, $8-million deal with the Sabres. Hall's deal, as reported by Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman, has since been confirmed by the team.
The former Hart Trophy winner put up 52 points in 65 games split between the New Jersey Devils and Arizona Coyotes in 2019-20. The star left-winger was sent from New Jersey to Arizona, along with forward Blake Speers, last December in exchange for a 2020 conditional first-round draft pick, a conditional 2021 third-rounder and forward prospects Nate Schnarr, Nick Merkley and defenceman Kevin Bahl.
The 28-year-old's seven-year, $42-million contract signed with the Edmonton Oilers in 2012 expired with the start of the off-season.
Hall, who was selected by the Oilers with the top pick in the 2010 draft, has racked up 563 points across 627 NHL games, appearing in two all-star games and finishing in the top-10 in league scoring in three seasons (2012-13, 2013-14 and 2017-18).
He was infamously sent to the Devils from the Oilers in a one-for-one deal for defenceman Adam Larsson during the 2016 off-season.
Hall's best campaign came in his second season in New Jersey (2017-18) as he captured the league's MVP award and helped an upstart Devils squad to their first playoff appearance in six seasons. His 93 points in 76 games that year were the sixth-best total in the NHL.
Hall, who has only made the post-season twice in his career, will be looking to help a talented but enigmatic Sabres team, which boasts Eichel and 2018 top pick Rasmus Dahlin, snap a playoff drought spanning nine straight campaigns. It's a streak of futility that prompted Eichel to say that he was "fed up with the losing" after the club finished 13th in the Eastern Conference last season and failed to make the cut for the NHL's return to play from its COVID-19 hiatus.
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