News Article: Sabres looking to keep Draft Combine in Buffalo

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This is the second season the Combine has been in Buffalo instead of Toronto. Marr said they’ve liked Buffalo, “Last year it was a successful event and this year with the full complex being made available to us, it’s fantastic for us, the hospitality with the First Niagara Center and the HarborCenter has been great for us there.â€

Pittsburgh has been wanting to host the Combine, but there’s one thing here in Buffalo that Pittsburgh can’t provide, “We found the all under one roof concept works and so far no one else has offered a venue that would do that.â€

Buffalo got the combine from Toronto by offering to foot the bill for the costs the past two years. There Sabres are no longer willing to do that and Marr said, “We are going to be sitting down and talking with them. We’ll have to do a new financial deal with them as it’s a two year deal, so we are going to sit down and talk with them to see where their interest level is and we’ll go back to the National Hockey League and make a decision.†The Sabres are very interested, but as Marr said, not under the terms of the old financial agreement.
 

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