 While other teammates on the Racers managed to find new homes to finish the season, Sacharuk was unable to do so and sat out the rest of the year.The following year, Sacharuk signed with the Birmingham Bulls in the Central Hockey League, where he played 80 games, notching 40 points.In the 1980 season, he signed on to play with EC Innsbruck of the Austrian Hockey League where he played 34 games and managed 35 goals as a player who was over-skilled in a league which did not have many players with NHL experience.