By playing a year in WHL Barrett becomes a NHL free agent, free to sign
with whoever comes up with the most money. He could not come to terms with
Buffalo even though he showed up for training camp with no contract. He
even played in some ex. games but still no contract.I'll bet Maines record
would be different if Barrett was still playing in Orono. Oh well, good
luck to Barrett and his quest for the NHL



At 08:50 AM 11/10/00 -0600, you wrote:
>   what a surprise to find out barrett heisten is  playing major junior
>hockey for seattle - what ever happened to signing a  contract with
>buffalo???   why didn't he just   i just   it would be interesting  to see
>how a div. 1 program like umo would match up against the whl, ohl,  qjhl???