‘”I had a conversation with Buffalo towards the end of last year and I said, ‘I understand we’re going young but I still hope we can get some other good players in free agency and then still be competitive while we work on the young guys,'” said Vanek, who was dealt for Matt Moulson last Sunday. “That’s not the direction they went in and I never once got a contract offer from them. That story. I’m not sure where it came from.”‘