{"id":124936,"date":"2025-09-06T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124936\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:40:07","slug":"snapshots-formenton-kostin-ncaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124936\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots: Formenton, Kostin, NCAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being found <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/07\/carter-hart-found-not-guilty-in-hockey-canada-sexual-assault-trial.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">not guilty<\/a> of sexual assault earlier this summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/formeal01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alex Formenton<\/a> has decided to resume his playing career.\u00a0 While he and the others who were on trial remain ineligible to play in the NHL at this time pending review and consideration of the judge\u2019s findings in the case, Formenton is once again heading overseas as Ambri-Piotta in Switzerland <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hcap.ch\/it\/news\/alex-formenton-torna-in-biancobl%C3%B9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve signed the winger to a three-month contract with a team option to convert it to a full-season deal.\u00a0 Formenton spent two seasons with them in 2022-23 and 2023-24, collecting 20 goals and nine assists in 46 games before leaving the team once charges were laid.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere around the hockey world:<\/p>\n<p>Veteran winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kostikl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Klim Kostin<\/a> is still looking to secure a contract for the upcoming season. He <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sport-express.ru\/hockey\/nhl\/news\/klim-kostin-kommentariy-po-bolelschikam-edmontona-i-avangarda-2356231\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Alexey Shevchenko of Sport-Express<\/a> that his desire is to return to Edmonton, where he spent the 2022-23 campaign.\u00a0 He notched 11 goals and 10 assists in 57 games that season, both career bests; he managed just 21 points in the last two years combined between Detroit and San Jose.\u00a0 With the Oilers having limited cap flexibility, he\u2019d likely have to settle for a PTO deal and then try to force his way into a roster spot from there.<br \/>\nThe change to allow CHL players to become NCAA-eligible has made waves across the hockey world this offseason. But there is another small wrinkle now in play, as Flames Nation\u2019s Ryan Pike observes (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RyanNPike\/status\/1964108240540566002\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).\u00a0 In the past, NCAA-bound players were ineligible to take part in NHL rookie and training camps, even if they weren\u2019t enrolled for the upcoming season.\u00a0 That is no longer the case.\u00a0 While players actively enrolled in college still won\u2019t be eligible to participate, those committed to college hockey but only for next year will be able.\u00a0 Pike notes that Flames prospect <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/785510\/mace-o-phillips\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mace\u2019o Phillips<\/a> is poised to benefit from the change; he\u2019ll play with USHL Green Bay this season but is committed to the University of Minnesota for 2026-27. \u00a0Because of that, he\u2019s eligible to take part in training camp with Calgary this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being found not guilty of sexual assault earlier this summer, Alex Formenton has decided to resume his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[17793,49,762,48,453,43706,525,448,7587,82],"class_list":["post-124936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alex-formenton","tag-ca","tag-calgary-flames","tag-canada","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-klim-kostin","tag-ncaa","tag-nhl","tag-snapshots","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}