Making sense of Stars’ eyebrow-raising waiving of Blake Comeau, and why it points to a sense of urgency
New York TimesUsually, the Stars placing a fourth-line winger on waivers, as was the case on Thursday with Blake Comeau, wouldn’t warrant much more than a tweet. It’s never an easy call when the player gets a call from management saying they’ve been placed on waivers, but you’ve just got to be honest and upfront with them.” The reasoning behind these transactions, according to Nill, is that the Stars need cap space to entertain AHL call-up options from Cedar Park. Given the cap clearance of Comeau and Kero and the reassignment of Thomas Harley, which the Stars made official later Thursday afternoon after The Athletic talked to Nill, it’s likely more reinforcements are on the way. If it’s somebody like Peterson or perhaps even Dellandrea, it’s a player the Stars would only call up if they were going to play him, which means somebody like Joel Kiviranta or Luke Glendening or Michael Raffl could be on healthy-scratch watch. Right now, it would be something like this : Jason Robertson — Roope Hintz — Joe Pavelski Jamie Benn — Tyler Seguin — Alexander Radulov Michael Raffl — Radek Faksa — Denis Gurianov Riley Tufte — Luke Glendening — Joel Kiviranta Ryan Suter — John Klingberg Esa Lindell — Miro Heiskanen Andrej Sekera — Jani Hakanpaa Joel Hanley Braden Holtby Anton Khudobin Ben Bishop* Bishop remains on long-term injured reserve and though there was speculation about whether the team was clearing cap space in anticipation of his return, I’m told that’s not the case yet.
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