{"id":302487,"date":"2025-11-23T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302487\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:35:07","slug":"buffalo-sabres-place-goaltender-alexandar-georgiev-on-waivers-for-the-purpose-of-contract-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302487\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres place goaltender Alexandar Georgiev on waivers for the purpose of contract termination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> have placed goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alexandar-georgiev\/8480382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alexandar-georgiev\/8480382\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandar Georgiev<\/a> on unconditional waivers for the purpose of contract termination, AHL affiliate Rochester Americans confirmed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Georgiev, 29, signed a one-year, $825,000 deal to join the Sabres in the off-season but never appeared for the team. He went 0-2-0 in the AHL with a 3.57 goals-against average and an .896 save percentage this season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmerksHockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@AmerksHockey<\/a> goaltender Alexandar Georgiev has been placed on unconditional waivers for the purpose of contract termination.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amerks PR (@AmerksPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmerksPR\/status\/1992669623750455669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-1 goaltender finished last season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> after he, along with forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nikolai-kovalenko\/8481042\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nikolai-kovalenko\/8481042\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolai Kovalenko<\/a>, and two draft picks, were acquired from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> in exchange for netminder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mackenzie-blackwood\/8478406\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mackenzie-blackwood\/8478406\" target=\"_blank\">Mackenzie Blackwood<\/a>, forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/givani-smith\/8479379\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/givani-smith\/8479379\" target=\"_blank\">Givani Smith<\/a>, and a draft pick on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had a 15-26-4 record with a 3.71 goals-against average and .875 save percentage split between the Avalanche and Sharks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Georgiev was within the top two in the NHL in wins prior to last season, recording 40 wins in 2022-23 and 38 wins in 2023-24 while a member of the Avalanche.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Originally signed as an undrafted free agent by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-rangers\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-rangers\/3\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers<\/a> in 2017, Georgiev has a career 151-108-26 record with a .903 save percentage and 2.99 GAA split between the Rangers, Avalanche, and Sharks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Ruse, Bulgaria, Georgiev represents Russia on the international stage and has a bronze medal from the 2019 World Championship.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres have placed goaltender Alexandar Georgiev on unconditional waivers for the purpose of contract termination, AHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[135797,712,96397,49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-302487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alexandar-georgiev-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8480382","tag-apple-news","tag-buffalo-sabres-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-7","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302487","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=302487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}