The deadline for NHL clubs to ready their opening-night rosters has passed, and as a result there has been quite a bit of roster maneuvering around the NHL today. While some moves are more notable, such as the handful of waiver claims made today, there are a few moves that are more minor, such as expected reassignments or previously reported injuries being made official with IR placements. We\u2019ll keep track of those moves here:<\/p>\n
In preparing their final opening-night roster that can be viewed here, the Utah Mammoth reassigned<\/a> a pair of first-round picks. 2023 12th overall pick Daniil But<\/a> was reassigned to the AHL\u2019s Tucson Roadrunners, which is where he will begin his North American professional career. Meanwhile 2024 sixth overall pick Tij Iginla<\/a> was loaned back to his WHL team, the Kelowna Rockets. But is a big 6\u20195 winger whose KHL teammate (and fellow 2023 first-rounder) Dmitry Simashev<\/a> made the Utah roster today, and it\u2019s expected that But won\u2019t be in the AHL for too long. As for Iginla, this season is an opportunity for him to get his development back on track after unfortunate injury luck derailed his 2024-25 campaign.
\nThe Ottawa Senators reassigned<\/a> the players they placed on waivers Sunday to their AHL affiliate, the Belleville Senators. Making up the group is Jan Jenik<\/a>, Hayden Hodgson<\/a>, Arthur Kaliyev<\/a>, Mads Sogaard<\/a>, and Lassi Thomson<\/a>. 2024 seventh-overall pick Carter Yakemchuk<\/a> was reassigned to Belleville, his Sept. 29 birthdate making him eligible to play in the AHL despite being a 2024 draft pick. In addition to those reassignments, the Senators placed Drake Batherson<\/a> and Tyler Kleven<\/a> on IR to further prepare their final roster. Batherson has been out since Sept. 24 with an upper-body injury on a projected two-week recovery timeline, while Kleven has been out since Sept. 21 with an undisclosed injury.
\nThe Minnesota Wild reassigned<\/a> forward Tyler Pitlick<\/a> and netminder Cal Petersen<\/a> to their AHL affiliate, the Iowa Wild, today. Both players were placed on waivers yesterday and went unclaimed. Pitlick, 33, is a veteran of over 400 NHL games and scored 46 points in 59 AHL games last season for the Hartford Wolf Pack \u2013 he\u2019ll likely be among the first players in line for a call-up in Iowa. Petersen, 30, was once a $5MM-a-year netminder for the Los Angeles Kings but did not play in the NHL in 2024-25. Signed to a one-year, $775K one-way deal, he\u2019ll be the team\u2019s organizational number-three netminder.
\nThe Calgary Flames placed<\/a> forwards Jonathan Huberdeau<\/a> and Martin Pospisil<\/a> on injured reserve today as part of their roster preparations, and also called up 2023 first-rounder Samuel Honzek<\/a>. Huberdeau left Calgary\u2019s preseason game at the start of the month with an undisclosed injury, and will miss at least the team\u2019s season opener. Pospisil also exited the Flames\u2019 Oct. 1 preseason game with an undisclosed injury, and will also miss the team\u2019s first game at minimum. As a result, Honzek, 20, gets a spot on the roster in their absence. The 6\u20195 Slovak forward played his first season of North American pro hockey in 2024-25, scoring 21 points in 52 AHL games and also skating in five NHL contests.
\nThe New York Rangers reassigned<\/a> forward Brett Berard<\/a> to AHL Hartford as part of their season-opening roster moves. Despite a solid training camp and preseason, the 23-year-old lost the battle for a middle-six role in New York to veteran Conor Sheary<\/a>, a longtime favorite of first-year coach Mike Sullivan. The Rangers signed<\/a> Sheary to a one-year deal earlier today. It\u2019s a disappointing outcome for Berard, who looked to be making a real push for full-time NHL status last season. He skated in a career-high 35 NHL games, scoring 10 points to go alongside the 23 points he scored in 30 AHL contests.
\nThe Toronto Maple Leafs reassigned<\/a> defenseman Ben Danford<\/a> to the OHL\u2019s Oshawa Generals as part of their season-opening roster preparations. Danford missed Maple Leafs training camp and preseason with a concussion, but has since been cleared for contact, paving the way for this reassignment. It\u2019s the expected move for the 2024 31st overall pick, who is entering his fourth season of OHL duty. Danford scored 25 points in 61 games in Oshawa last season and will resume his post as one of the OHL\u2019s top shutdown blueliners for 2025-26.
\nThe Colorado Avalanche announced<\/a> several roster moves to go alongside their announcement of an initial roster: Keaton Middleton<\/a>, who cleared waivers today, has been reassigned to AHL Colorado, alongside Matthew Stienburg<\/a>. Meanwhile Ronnie Attard<\/a>, Sean Behrens<\/a>, Jacob MacDonald<\/a>, Logan O\u2019Connor<\/a>, and Nikita Prishchepov<\/a> have been designated injured non-roster. Ilya Solovyov<\/a>, who the team claimed off of waivers<\/a> from the Calgary Flames last week, was also designated non-roster but he is not injured. Solovyov\u2019s placement is due to the fact that, per the Denver Post\u2019s Corey Masisiak<\/a>, his visa to allow him to play in the United States has not yet been finalized. It should be noted that this is not an abnormal scenario for a player involved in a cross-border transaction between NHL clubs.
\nAs part of their own season-opening roster moves, the Nashville Predators placed<\/a> defenseman Nic Hague<\/a> and forward Matthew Wood<\/a> on injured reserve. Hague is out with an upper-body injury on a week-to-week timeline, while Wood is also considered week-to-week with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deadline for NHL clubs to ready their opening-night rosters has passed, and as a result there has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[6066,96526,96527,18359,49,96528,762,48,25259,20216,96529,96530,96531,96532,55386,96533,96534,27807,20763,761,760,751,448,744,14116,96535,82,96536,96537,96538,765],"class_list":{"0":"post-194171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-arthur-kaliyev","10":"tag-ben-danford","11":"tag-brett-berard","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-cal-petersen","14":"tag-calgary-flames","15":"tag-canada","16":"tag-carter-yakemchuk","17":"tag-conor-sheary","18":"tag-daniil-but","19":"tag-drake-batherson","20":"tag-hayden-hodgson","21":"tag-jan-jenik","22":"tag-jonathan-huberdeau","23":"tag-lassi-thomson","24":"tag-mads-sogaard","25":"tag-martin-pospisil","26":"tag-mike-sullivan","27":"tag-minnesota-wild","28":"tag-nashville-predators","29":"tag-new-york-rangers","30":"tag-nhl","31":"tag-ottawa-senators","32":"tag-players","33":"tag-samuel-honzek","34":"tag-sports","35":"tag-tij-iginla","36":"tag-tyler-kleven","37":"tag-tyler-pitlick","38":"tag-utah-mammoth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194171","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=194171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}