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Chasing Contracts in the Summer

by Alanah McGinley on 07/12/11 at 04:06 PM ET
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From Justin Bourne at Puck Daddy:

After July 1, there’s a slow and steady trickledown effect in pro hockey, and it’s not as simple as “sign the best available player, then the next best available player, then the….”

“Next best available player” gets a little blurry when one guy is 26 and played for El Mira and the other is 23 and skated with Victoria. Sometimes you need to get them on the same ice to compare.

NHL teams are set in stone (well, 97 percent anyway) before a single player shows up to camp, but at the AHL and ECHL levels, it can work a little differently.

Lower down in the system, you have a better chance of actually taking someone’s spot, especially if they aren’t some prized prospect.

more about job hunting for the “free-agent stragglers”

*I accidentally credited this story to “Jason Bourne” when this first went online. Apologies. The blame belongs fully to Robert Ludlum…

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  Tags: ahl, contracts, echl

Staying in the Pros

by Alanah McGinley on 03/22/08 at 10:42 PM ET
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From Mark Herrmann at Newsday,

Keeping a pro hockey career going in the minors when you’re 35 is a roll of the dice anyway. So if you’re going to do it, why not skate straight to Las Vegas? That would be the natural explanation for why Chris and Peter Ferraro, the twins from Sound Beach and former Rangers, are on The Strip. [...]

It has been a fascinating odyssey for the two brothers. They were on the 1994 U.S. Olympic team, or at least Peter was after Chris was the final cut and went to Lillehammer as an alternate. They were teammates on a college national championship team at Maine. Both were drafted by the Rangers, played here and there in the NHL, spent time in the Islanders system, played together in Sweden and Germany. But theirs is less a hockey story than it is a family story. It always has been.

more…

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  Tags: chris+ferraro, echl, las+vegas+wranglers, peter+ferraro

What Starts In Pittsburgh & Ends In Montreal?

by Paul on 11/28/07 at 10:19 AM ET
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How about a road trip that hits every NHL, AHL and ECHL arena…

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  Tags: ahl, arenas, echl, fans, nhl