- Renaud Lavoie: Put on waivers yesterday: Bryan Bickell and Michael Leighton (CHI), Chad Ruhwedel and Jerome Gauthier-Leduc (BUF), Drew Shore (CGY), Korbinian Holzer and Chris Mueller (ANA), Colin Greening (OTT), Zach Sill (WSH), Jayson Megna and Raphael Diaz (NYR), Brett Bulmer and Tyson Strachan (MIN).
- Chris Hine of the Chicago Tribune: The Blackhawks put Bryan Bickell on waivers and assigned Marko Dano to the AHL. Teams have until noon today to claim Bickell. If he clears waivers, he can be sent to the AHL and the Blackhawks would gain $925,000 in cap room.
“We had a lot of business decisions to make and hockey decisions to go along with it,” coach Joel Quenneville said of his roster, which the Hawks trimmed to 25 players Friday. “We’ll address deeper into that (Saturday) when we see what happens.”
The Blackhawks also assigned Ryan Hartman, Vincent Hinostroza, Brandon Mashinter, Dennis Rasumssen, Garret Ross, Erik Gustafsson and Ville Pokka to Rockford.
- Swiss Hockey News: Raphael Diaz would rather play in Europe than the AHL.
- Sabres PR: The Sabres assigned William Carrier, Evan Rodrigues, Tim Schaller, Jerome Leduc, Chad Rehwedel and Nathan Lieuwen to the AHL. Matt Ellis and Patrick Kaleta were released from their PTOs, but will report to Rochester.
- Jeremy Rutherford of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The Blues assigned Jordan Caron and Phoenix Copley to the AHL. The Blues still have 27 players in camp. Battling for the final three forward spots would include Robby Fabbri, Magnus Paajarvi, Ty Rattie, Scott Gomez and Scottie Upshall. Battling for the final two spots on the blueline include Joel Edmondson, Colton Parayko, Petteri Lindbohm and Chris Butler. Gomez and Upshall are in camp on PTOs.
- Ken Warren: Senators GM Bryan Murray said a decision on Shane Prince and Matt Puempel will likely be made tomorrow.
- Rich Chere of NJ.com: Lee Stempniak is still in the Devils camp on a PTO and has had no indication if they want to sign him or not.
“No. I haven’t talked to my agent in a little while. In terms of the coaches, it’s more feedback,” Stempniak told NJ Advance Media. “They’ve told me things I’m doing well and thing I’m not. More coaching and teaching as opposed to feedback in terms of whether I’ll sign or not.”