{"id":405157,"date":"2026-01-11T00:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405157\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:24:11","slug":"wild-place-matt-kiersted-on-waivers-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405157\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Place Matt Kiersted On Waivers \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, the Wild ran veteran Tyler Pitlick<\/a> through waivers without sending him down, simply to restart his 10-game, 30-day exemption period.\u00a0 It appears they\u2019re doing that once again as Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman reports (Twitter link<\/a>) that defenseman Matt Kiersted<\/a> is on waivers.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old is in his first season with Minnesota after signing a two-year, two-way contract (carrying a $775K AAV) with them on the second day of free agency last summer.\u00a0 A veteran of 41 NHL appearances heading into the season, the expectation was that he\u2019d be a key piece in Iowa and a serviceable performer in a depth role if needed with the big club.<\/p>\n

So far, things have largely played out that way.\u00a0 Kiersted has played in 23 games with Iowa this season and while his offensive numbers aren\u2019t anything to get excited about with just three assists, he played a big role, especially defensively.\u00a0 That earned him a recall in the second week of December and he has been with Minnesota since then.<\/p>\n

Playing time has been hard to come by since joining Minnesota as Kiersted has only played in four games so far.\u00a0 He has an assist and five blocked shots in those outings while picking up five blocked shots in 13:42 per night of ice time.\u00a0 While he hasn\u2019t reached the 10-game mark, he has been up for 30 days, meaning his waiver exemption has expired.<\/p>\n

Assuming that Kiersted passes through unclaimed for the second time this season (the other was in training camp), Minnesota can either keep him up in the reserve role he has been filling lately or return him to Iowa and open up some additional salary cap and roster flexibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, the Wild ran veteran Tyler Pitlick through waivers without sending him down, simply to restart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,214857,7524,575,85,206,86513],"class_list":["post-405157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-matt-kiersted","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-waivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405157","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=405157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}