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https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/01/law-firm-investigates-michigan-hockey-over-allegations-of-covid-deception-toxic-environment.html

Portillo turns 22 in September meaning he is only eligible for to sign a two year ELC. The advantage the Sabres have is, in He signs next April one of those years will be burned. Meaning he is a RFA after the 2023-24 Season. If He signs with another team after August 15, 2023 He will be a RFA after the 2024-25 Season.

Dahlin on the Right Side

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Ok Fitzgerald needs to go back to Rochester

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This is a proven fact

Sigh

No Eakin Tonight

Opie?

He needs a US Work Visa. The contract was signed on Friday/Saturday with the paperwork for the Visa being filed shortly afterwards. The Visa probably won’t be issued until the early part of next week He can play in Toronto as He is Canadian

And have players start Their NHL Career at Age 24 in a league where the average career lasts Five Years? After Their 4 Years of NCAA Eligibility are up at Age 22 are they supposed to go to Europe and Play for Two Seasons? Good Luck with getting the NHLPA to agree with that. Players that decide to wait four years are willingly forgoing millions of dollars, by deciding to stay in school and to be able to choose Their Team. Every organization spends time and resources on players that will never play in Their Organization, that is the nature of a business where you are drafting 18 and 19 year olds. Any player who decides to go the NCAA Route and wait the full four years to sign with the team of Their Choice, is just exercising Their Right under the Collective Bargaining Agreement. On the flip side, Drafted Players in the NCAA who feel they are ready to turn pro after one or two years in College can be told by the Teams that have Their Draft Rights, We do not feel You are ready and We want You to stay in School.

It’s quite simple actually, GMs figure out where the player would be interested in signing through conversations with the Players Advisor and see if a deal can be worked out with that team. Adam Fox was traded to the Rangers for 2nd, this past TDL Minnesota traded Jack McBain, who was eligible to be an UFA on August 15th, 2022, to Arizona for a 2nd, McBain signed His ELC with Arizona. There very often is mutual desire of the player and team to burn a year off their ELC and get some NHL Games. Lance Lysowski mentioned on the Maintenance Day Podcast, that quite a few teams around the league are interested in Portillo. If or when, GMKA gets confirmation that Portillo doesn’t want to sign in Buffalo, He can put His Rights on the Trade Market. Plus there is the possibility Adams might trade for a bonafide Top Goaltender, Gibson and Hellebuyck’s Names have been mentioned as possibly being available, including a Top Goalie Prospect in the return might push the Sabres Bid over the Top

Two for Levi and only One for Portillo. CapFriendly isn’t correct, Elliotte Freeman did some investigating and discovered since He was drafted in 2019, He can leave School after the 2022-23 Season and be a UFA in Summer of 2023

Yes but if He leaves School after His Junior Year He is a UFA next Summer

Nope that’s from Lance Lysowski.

Portillo loves school. He is in the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and wants to finish His Degree. That's One of Top Business School in the US, so on one hand I do not blame him for wanting to return. On the other He's now a trade asset that must be considered in any deal moving forward.

Sam Ventura, Dom Galiemi ans Matt Barlowe will find a spot for Him, particularly with those two bars on the Right Side of the chart