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Matt Lashoff, Joey McDonald and Chris Bourque have all been placed on waivers. Tarik El-Bashir says that Bourque would not have been placed on waivers if the Caps were able to move Nylander. But cap concerns forced their hand. There is a chance that Bourque will be claimed, as he pretty much made the Caps.

Atlanta has signed Maxim Afinogenov. Details to come.

Yanick Weber and Ben Maxwell among Habs cuts.

According to this, the Coyotes have signed Robert Lang pending a physical. This would shift Mueller back to the wing and provide Lombardi with some help to take the heat off. Essentially Lang replaces Turris – or where we thought/hoped Turris would be.

The Lightning have waived Matt Lashoff! Pretty significant move for the once highly-touted offensive defenseman.

The Sabres have cut Cody McCormick. Drew Stafford is suffering from a concussion. This could help the likes of Gerbe and Kennedy to at least start the year in Buffalo.

Big cuts in Nashville – Cal O’Reilly is no surprise. Remember, his contract is a two-way this year, but is a one-way next year. He has to clear waivers. Peter Olvecky was a little unexpected, as was Alexander Sulzer. The latter was a player whom was highly touted in Nashville as such a lock that he was never mentioned among the “maybes”. He was a lock. No longer. Joel Ward is on injured reserve, Colin Wilson (groin) is a non-roster player and so the Preds are now down to 23. Still with the team – Cody Franson and Teemu Laakso. The latter, I would imagine, will be cut. Making the team: Ryan Jones, Patric Hornqvist and Mike Santorelli. Good on them. Of the three, Horny has the most upside. Yes, I’m childish.

Surprise – the Penguins have signed Martin Skoula. This could impact how many games Goligoski gets into, so tweak him down your lists for this year.

Interesting news out of LA… apparently the Kings are close to bringing in Gretzky in some sort of management/advisory role.

Sergei Shirokov will skate on the second line with Kesler and Samuelsson to start the season. More importantly, however, he will skate on the TOP power play unit with the Sedin twins.

Michael Del Zotto has been named as the PP QB for the Rangers. Pretty impressive for a 19-year-old. John Tortorella loves his skating and visison. Good on Torts for not letting the massive salaries of Redden and Rozsival cloud his judgment for this important position. Del Zotto could hit 40 points this season.

With Duchene on the Avalanche and Grachev in the AHL, look for Brampton to most likely trade Hodgson. Imagine if Windsor can somehow acquire him… Ellis, Hall, Hodgson… wow!

Angus here. After a dissapointing training camp, Cody Hodgson has indeed been sent back to Brampton of the OHL. The confirmation is here. I am not surprised – the extra year of development has been beneficial to players like Bobby Ryan, and rushing a player who isn’t ready has proven time and time again to be a stupid move.

Boom or Bust potential here, as I’ve been saying for a couple of weeks now – the Isles have indeed put a waiver claim in on Robbie Schremp. This season he will either struggle to 10 points or fewer before getting cut… or he’ll get 45 to 50 points and give you a teasor as to what is to come.  Can he play on the wing with John Tavares? Let’s see, their options are Matt Moulson or Rob Schremp…

Detroit made their round of cuts – Kris Newbury, Jan Mursak, Thomas McCollum, Doug Janik and Jeremy Williams. Johan Ryno was loaned back to Sweden. Ryno had fallen out of favor with DobberHockey for fleeing to Sweden in the first place and then performing sub-par there. The fact that he was in camp was a nice surprise and that he lasted this long is another one. He’s back on the radar, because of his potential and the fact that he still wants to be over here. He needs to step up in the SEL.

The Wild have cut Colton Gillies. Andy Hilbert was offered a two-way deal by the team, but according to Michael Russo he was told he would be placed on waivers and sent to the AHL if he takes it. Once again I will float the idea – Hilbert had an amazing 20-game stint with Pittsburgh playing with Crosby several years ago and on a cheap two-way deal, the Pens should consider grabbing him off of waivers and seeing what shakes out.

This morning we find out about Robbie Schremp and the Islanders. I should get an early scoop on this from Katie Strang, Islanders beat writer, who tells me she is looking into it.

The Sens have cut Zach Smith.

Phoenix has signed Ryan Hollweg, just a week after they cut him. Not sure what went on there, or why they want this guy.

The Pens have signed Ryan Bayda, liking what they saw. Bayda will stay in the lineup until Max Talbot returns.

Cory Schneider was also cut by the Canucks. What a trade deadline asset he will be for them. He could be an NHL starter right now on some teams.

Manny Legace was also cut by the Thrashers yesterday (I already mentioned Fritsche).

The action went on throughout the day yesterday and I was pretty much on top of it. I won’t recap all the moves today because there were too many of them. If you are a newer reader and don’t know this – you can scroll to the end of the comments below and click “next” to see yesterday’s ramblings. Furthermore, you can go to “other features” on the left and all of my ramblings are archived there, going back three years.

The Fantasy Guide is updated as of yesterday. That update took me the longest because it required lots of analysis and tweaking as teams finalized their rosters. The Draft List I will update later today. I will tweak the Guide again tomorrow and the list Thursday. The Guide will get another one on Friday or early Saturday. Final update of both Guide and list will be Monday/Tuesday of next week.