Nikolaev on waivers for contract termination

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by Junglist

How hes playing well, he has 1 goal in his overage year and is not a PPG.

Im curious how many games of the Vancouver Giants hockey team you have watched this season?

[Arsenal14]

Originally Posted by FBI

What was he ranked for us? 20s?

Started out at #8 in 2019. Then 17, 27, tied for 16, 24 and finally 37 this year.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Taking a wild guess here, but deleting Nikolaev frees up a contract spot for Jaden Lipinski, who turns 20 on Monday.

Drafted players can leave the CHL and play minor pro when they're either 20 (before Dec. 31) or after four years of junior -- something Lipinski would now qualify for.

Lipinski is also a center.

He could have played in the AHL this season if they had wanted him to. They didn't need to wait until he turns 20, he just needs to turn 20 before the end of the calendar year.

Brzustewicz is a good example. Today is his 20th birthday but he has been with the Wranglers all season.


Once a player is sent back to junior, he can't be recalled (to the AHL or NHL) until his junior team's season is over -- except in very rare emergency situations and must be returned once the emergency condition is over (like when Baertschi was called up on an emergency recall from junior).

[FlamesAddiction]

So did he clear?

[getbak]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

So did he clear?

Yup.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1862578632138383445


I wonder if any player who was waived for contract termination has ever been claimed?

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Junglist

I wouldnt sign Lipinski.
Better options out there.

Originally Posted by Bonded

Like who?

Originally Posted by Junglist

Overagers who can actually put up decent numbers.

Sigh.

[Ped]

Originally Posted by getbak

Yup.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1862578632138383445


I wonder if any player who was waived for contract termination has ever been claimed?

At least one; Niko Hovinen was put on unconditional waivers by the Flyers and claimed by the Oilers. Ended up playing 10 games for Bakersfield.


I thought there was a second, but I can't find it. I thought it was Marian Studenic, but apparently not.

[McG]

Originally Posted by Ped

At least one; Niko Hovinen was put on unconditional waivers by the Flyers and claimed by the Oilers. Ended up playing 10 games for Bakersfield.

Niko Hovinen; the next great Oiler that got away.

[Junglist]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Sigh.

Lipinski sucks and only got drafted because of Honzek.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Ped

At least one; Niko Hovinen was put on unconditional waivers by the Flyers and claimed by the Oilers. Ended up playing 10 games for Bakersfield.

That's funny. Of course it was the Oilers.

Even funnier, when his contract expired, the Oilers gave him a qualifying offer, but he chose to sign with a KHL team in Siberia.

[Jonners]

Originally Posted by getbak

That's funny. Of course it was the Oilers.

Even funnier, when his contract expired, the Oilers gave him a qualifying offer, but he chose to sign with a KHL team in Siberia.

Warmer than Edmonton in February....

[Ped]

As per eliteprospects, he has signed with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the KHL.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Junglist

Lipinski sucks and only got drafted because of Honzek.

Sigh because you were asked for examples and posted a non-answer.

[boogerz]

Lipinski thinks the game well, but his skating ability is possibly the worst of any Flames prospect drafted in the past 20 years. It's Hunter Smith levels of awful.