{"id":271794,"date":"2025-11-08T20:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/271794\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T20:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:35:09","slug":"hurricanes-claim-g-cayden-primeau-off-waivers-from-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/271794\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes claim G Cayden Primeau off waivers from Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the pre-season in Raleigh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/cayden-primeau\/bff64853-97d5-455d-a9fd-879c02949445\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"bff64853-97d5-455d-a9fd-879c02949445\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cayden Primeau<\/a> is on his way back. <\/p>\n<p>Carolina later <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Canes\/status\/1987248892220493856?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> that he would be assigned to the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>Primeau suited up for three games with the Maple Leafs, putting up a 2-1 record with a 4.30 goals-against average and a .838 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>He served as the team&#8217;s backup goaltender while Joseph Woll began the season away from the team on a leave of absence due to personal reasons. <\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes waived Primeau before the start of the regular season after the team acquired his rights from the Montreal Canadiens for a 2026 seventh-round pick in the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Primeau had a 2-3-1 record, with an .836 save percentage and a 4.70 goals-against average in 11 games with the Canadiens. He also had a 21-2-2 record, a .927 save percentage, and a 1.96 goals-against average in 26 AHL games with the Laval Rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Over his seven-year NHL career, the Farmington Hills, Mich., native has a 15-25-7 record in 58 appearances, most of which came with the Canadiens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After spending the pre-season in Raleigh, Cayden Primeau is on his way back. Carolina later announced that he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-271794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}