According to Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet, the Tampa Bay Lightning have placed Gabriel Dumont on waivers Tuesday. Both Matt Read and Anton Rodin, who were waived yesterday, have cleared. While Read could end up in the minor leagues, Rodin is headed for the NLA in Switzerland. Additionally, Edmonton has placed Ziyat Paigin on unconditional waivers, likely to terminate his contract and allow the young defender to return to Russia.
Dumont has had the unfortunate luck to be part of the hottest team in the NHL, and couldn’t find a way to regularly get into the lineup. In seven games this season he’s been held scoreless, but won’t have to wait long in the AHL. Dumont has consistently been excellent in the minor leagues, with seasons of 49 and 45 points in recent years.
Paigin was drafted by the Oilers in 2015, but only signed his entry-level contract this past April. Since then, he’s played just 13 games total for the Bakersfield Condors of the AHL, and it looks like that experiment might be coming to an end. It was just a few months ago that Paigin told Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal that he would be willing to go to the minor leagues if that’s what the Oilers wanted for him. The towering defenseman never did register a point in North America.