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If Zombieland has taught us anything, it's that you'd be far safer if you did have that three year supply of twinkies. Granted, things would be far less entertaining, but you would be safe.

Anyone with a non-entry level NHL contract needs to clear waivers before being assigned to the AHL. He didn't have one of those until today. So he needs to clear waivers to be assigned there. Edit: I'm being a bit loose with who is required to clear waivers, but that is the case for Leier.

That's also the answer to the earlier question. Signing him did not require waivers, but it is needed to assign him to Rochester now that he has signed. My initial thought was that they signed him so that he could be retained via qualifying offer at the end of the year. But looking at capfriendly, he's a UFA at the end of the year, so that's out. So I'd expect some shuffling around the roster in the upcoming week. They have plenty of space in terms of the 50 contract max, so why not.

Add center(s) and assume nothing of Cozens. If he does show up and deliver, BOOM, depth.

They have space to work with this year. They're in the bottom half of the league in terms of cap hit. It's the summer where they might have to play a few games as they have a handful of ELC contracts expiring.

Each time they show that stat I'm quickly reminded that I'm staring at a list of hall of famers. And on top of that, they played in higher scoring eras. Now he just needs to hold that course and continue to get better. He doesn't need to join Rick Hampton on that list (yeah, had to google him because the name never rang a bell).

It's one of those diseases that actually travels backwards in time.

Ok Rex.

How on earth does he know that name? Did he spend some time in the area early in the career?

Who could have seen this coming?

The argument is that the PA exists and such a suspension would never stand. It’s not worth the effort to the league to try it.

How reputable can NEJM be if I’m in there??

This is the absolute worst time possible to refuse to report. He’s going to play it by the book right now in hopes of a trade going through. If the deadline passes and nothing happens, that’s when he’d walk out if he didn’t want to be in Rochester.

It definitely was a big deal and then glad they did it. But the fact that he was back from the other suspension for about 30 minutes also helps. Didn’t he just get a recent contract extension too?

Ok. I didn’t realize they use the “termination of contract” terminology for what I’ve always identified as being released. When I hear termination I think of a Berglund situation where the contract was violated. So yeah, they can go that way if agreed upon, but the majority of the money still hits the cap (what’s the amount you can stash, something around 800 or 900k?). If people need a recent example, it’s Kovalchuk in LA, but that one was a 35+ deal so it’s slightly different. That thing is hitting them for $6.5 million even next year.

Have you met China?

Why would he do that? He loses the money that way. I think what most people are picturing is the Sabres releasing him (which is their decision, not his). In that case, he’s free, he gets his money, and the team saves a minimal amount of cap space. But as was mentioned upthread, typically when a player is waived with the intent to release, the media catches wind of it right away.

Nothing screams 2000s night like Danny Gare!

Nothing will come of this. They're probably just clearing him through just in case they need to later free up a roster spot next week.

There are 60 teams.

So the virus is now able to instantly travel halfway around the world and infect anyone who is Chinese? It's a good thing the reporting hasn't been too over the top because you just know that there are people out there who would actually believe this.

I love how one fact actually saw it and immediately complained to the linesman. For whatever reason, I've always got a kick out of people yelling at linesmen for real ref stuff. And sorry, I really wasn't going for a cheap pun with that getting a kick out of something line.

That Zagrapan draft was really crappy. Outside of some guy who went first overall, there is maybe a handful of good players in that draft. Strangely enough, the worst players of the batch are all centralized right around the Zagrapan pick. As for the other missed first rounders, the picks as a whole are much later than we’re used to on our present day of garbage hockey. That’s much deeper into crap shot land, especially with the tar t pool not being as developed and NHL ready as they are today. I’d be willing to bet that the success rate, however one might measure that, is higher today than it was 10-20 years ago.

He brought in more than enough talent to build a very good hockey team. The main problem was no retaining that talent. It's tough to know for sure how much credit belongs to the drafting team when it comes to guys who develop after moving onto a new organization, but if you look at the resumes of all of those players as a whole, I do think there's a very good team in there. Sure there were plenty of misses, but I think the hits outweighed them. Failure to sign and develop does not equal a failure to draft. The results to look to tail off though towards the later years. I'd suspect that you'll find that this coincides pretty well with when old sugar packets tightened the purse strings on all things off the ice.

Missing a couple games could cost him a few dollars on the next contract. We have to find the positives where ever we can. Pu's already been dumped. That trade is listed as future considerations, so they may in fact have gotten nothing for him.