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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.

Quick: who is their president of hockey ops?

Production tweaks is putting it very mildly. I understand why the teams like it, but the broadcast needs a complete overhaul. Just copy the NFL model and call it a day.

Penn State is currently buying half a roster.

I still have no idea what a president of hockey ops even is and how many teams even have one. The blurred lines between a more business oriented president and this position are hard to sort out from team to team. The Sabres need a GM, but I'm not sure they need this.

This isn’t going to create a strong NCAA. The Big10 is going to buy a bunch of players, creating a bigger talent gap.

Well at least the product can’t get any worse, right? I’d imagine the whole process was a lot easier for the teams, but now they need to fix things on the tv side.

I can’t wait for the fun time when someone has two high end CHL guys and then need to pick which one goes to the AHL. Situations like the islanders having 3 first round picks come to mind. They won’t have to worry about it, it in the future it may influence how teams make those picks.

I wonder why there is no American team named the clan…

Wait, do you think they’re actually getting an education out of this? McKenna will never have to go to a single class if he doesn’t want to.

I’m confused. He sounds so incredibly Canadian… but none of that was even remotely polite.

And he’s somewhere in the organization right now, if I remember correctly.