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Finally someone gets it

Not enough Ys

So why are they playing there at 16 or 17?

Come on, you can do better.

Should I look up when they play here in NC even though I know I won't go?

You do realize that he has pretty much next to nothing to do with these deals, right?

Two careers that ended in the same trade. Lose/lose?

I guess there should be a level of naivety there. He played there last season, but they had another game in Minnesota two days later, so they were out of there right away. He didn't have any time to experience it.

But he did choose to sign that multi-year contract there.

That's not exactly how it works though. Alex Nylander was a CHL guy too, but since he was "on loan" (I forget if that's the proper language) from his Swedish team, he wound up in the AHL immediately after being drafted. Mrtka was with a pro Czech team last year too.

Maybe I'm just old, but that post confuses the hell out of me.

Too lazy to read. Is he Rochester eligible? I have no idea exactly when he crossed the ocean.

I get the rest of the list, but Ott? Man, there's a career that fell off the face of the earth the second he left Dallas. I don't really think that was a Sabre effect, but more of a "this guy is toast".

Pacioretty will be lucky to get to 40 games during the season. I wouldn't expect him to be hitting many incentives unless they're so incredibly basic. But anyway, I'm not interested in him. I bet he winds up as a PTO somewhere.

So how is Salt Lake City anyway? I've been in the airport, but that's it.

None in the last three years definitely kills my thought. I mean, maybe 3 years after those guys have flamed out they can go this route, but they’re definitely not earning a job after that.

They can sign him right now if they want to, right? I know there was a post-January limitation if you’re on a one-way deal, but I have no idea if that’s may have changed with the previous updates. I haven’t paid close enough attention to see if any of next year’s free agents around the league have gotten any new deals yet.

Does it say anything about them getting practice time? I wonder if some of those late round lottery ticket draft picks that didn’t work out could stay around and try to earn a job that way.

The new CBA will limit you to 7 years. I’m not sure exactly when the cutoff is for sneaking in 8 year contracts. My gut tells me that if a contract starts in 2016, it will fall under those new rules, but I don’t know if that’s the case.

There’s no cap hit for Levi in Rochester.

I said it a few posts back. The Sabres need the right GM. It was implied, but not actually stated, that they don't currently have that right GM. So yeah, we're on the same page. They can do whatever they want with the fake POHO tag as long as a new GM is in place.

And a lot of teams don’t even have one. It’s a glorified spin off of the GM position, nothing more. I’m not even sure it’s a position that really existed in the league prior to the last 25 years or so. In most cases, it feels like a PR position created to bring some former player on board and grab attention. In Zito’s case, he did a really good job so they gave him an additional paper title to give him a raise.

What event was this?

No matter what some random drunk spouts off to a pair of has been a with a podcast, the Sabres, like many other teams, do not have a president of hockey ops. There’s not need to turn this into another Sabre rant. I’m simply stating that it is an unnecessary position.

Yep, it’s just a title. The right GM is all you need.