{"id":189094,"date":"2025-09-29T04:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/189094\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T04:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:55:07","slug":"west-notes-cooley-brisebois-slaggert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/189094\/","title":{"rendered":"West Notes: Cooley, Brisebois, Slaggert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Flames are one of a few teams that don\u2019t have their goaltending tandem in place for the upcoming season.\u00a0 While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/wolfdu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dustin Wolf<\/a> is entrenched as the starter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/coolede01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Devin Cooley<\/a> and offseason signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/prosviv01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ivan Prosvetov<\/a> are battling for the number two job.\u00a0 One will get it and the other will likely be waived.\u00a0 However, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/flames-notebook-backup-goalies-battle-on-kerins-makes-impression\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sportsnet\u2019s Eric Francis reports<\/a> that several teams have expressed interest in Cooley while Prosvetov had other suitors this summer.\u00a0 Accordingly, it would appear that there\u2019s a decent chance that whoever doesn\u2019t get the job could be grabbed off waivers.\u00a0 Calgary could also elect to carry three goalies to start the season although with it being likely that they\u2019ll have eight defensemen to start, that approach wouldn\u2019t exactly be ideal.<\/p>\n<p>More from out West:<\/p>\n<p>Canucks defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/brisegu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Guillaume Brisebois<\/a> is out indefinitely after undergoing surgery to fix a lower-body injury, relays Canucks Army\u2019s Jeff Paterson (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/patersonjeff\/status\/1972014725824500242\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>). The 28-year-old was only in three games with Vancouver last season but was up with the club for a few weeks.\u00a0 As a result, the Canucks will have a prorated cap charge of a little over $88K while he\u2019s on season-opening IR, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/team\/vancouver-canucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">per PuckPedia<\/a>.\u00a0 The 28-year-old played in 48 games during the regular season with AHL Abbotsford in 2024-25, picking up five points.<br \/>\nBlackhawks winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/slaggla01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Landon Slaggert<\/a> has been dealing with an undisclosed injury in recent days but it appears he\u2019s nearing a return. Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times relays (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenPopeCST\/status\/1972327534047162868\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that the 23-year-old is on track to return to practice on Tuesday and could get into a preseason game next weekend, putting him on track to be ready for the start of the season.\u00a0 Slaggert split last year between Chicago and AHL Rockford, getting into 33 NHL appearances where he had six points while adding 25 points in 39 contests with the IceHogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Flames are one of a few teams that don\u2019t have their goaltending tandem in place for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4047,4824,110502,110503,110504,385,99,1320],"class_list":{"0":"post-189094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-calgary-flames","9":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","10":"tag-devin-cooley","11":"tag-guillaume-brisebois","12":"tag-landon-slaggert","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-vancouver-canucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}