Delta winger to play for Buffalo next season

Delta’s Beck Malenstyn has a new area code for next year’s NHL season.

At the NHL Draft in June, the six-foot, 200-pound winger from Delta, who is a restricted free agent, was traded from the Washington Capitals to the Buffalo Sabres. The Capitals received the 43^rd choose in the draft in return.

Malenstyn was drafted in the fifth round by the Capitals in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft.

In the Capitals’ minor league system, he won the Calder Cup with the Hershey Bears in 2023, where he scored 10 goals and added eight assists in 60 regular seasons and playoff games.

With the Capitals, he played 105 games over four seasons, scoring eight goals and 24 points.