Veilleux still belongs to the Wild; 2008-09 Wild schedule

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Veilleux clears waivers
Published 7/17/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Richard Pollock) at IllegalCurve.com
From Michael Russo of the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Wild left wing Stephane Veilleux has cleared waivers, according to two sources, despite only a $15,000 pickup fee. Read the short entry here. No real surprise here. Veilleux should not have fired his agent, and this has really been a result of that miscalculation.

The Veilleux Situation
Published 7/18/2008 by elise (noreply@blogger.com) at 18,568 Reasons Why...
If you haven't read or heard about the recent Stephane Veilleux situation, head over to here or here or here on Russo's blog and check it out. WRT over at Hitting the Post has some nice thoughts about it too. Basically, Veilleux fired his agent, saying he wanted to negotiate his own contract and that he wanted to stay in Minnesota. Then, we go throw him under a bus by putting him on waivers. It was like an evil mind game. The organization likely knew that no one was going to claim Veilleux despite a low pick up price because they would have ...