Nov 12: Comeau and Kero have both cleared waivers, according to Matthew DeFranks of The Dallas Morning News. They can now be assigned to the minor leagues. Grimaldi has also cleared for the Predators.
Nov 11: Chris Johnston of TSN reports that Blake Comeau and Tanner Kero of the Dallas Stars, and Rocco Grimaldi of the Nashville Predators have all been placed on waivers today.
Comeau is clearly the biggest surprise of the three, given his place with the Stars and history in the NHL. The veteran winger has been wearing an “A” as an alternate captain at times this year and has more than 900 games played at the NHL level. Many of those have come with the Stars, who he has been with since 2018, when he signed a three-year, $7.2MM deal with the club in free agency.
Now on a one-year, $1MM contract he signed in June, Comeau’s cap hit will be entirely buried in the minor leagues even though he is a 35+ player. The restrictions on those contracts were changed in the 2020 CBA Memorandum of Understanding, but even before that his one-year deal would have been able to come off the cap if they assign him to the minor leagues.
It’s been years since Comeau was forced to play in the AHL though and it seems as though he and Grimaldi could potentially get claimed, if a team needs an experienced forward. Grimaldi has been a regular for the past three years in Nashville and even scored ten goals in 40 games last season. Kero doesn’t have quite as much experience, but did suit up 39 times for the Stars.
Notably, this is a change for Dallas, who have seemed unable to drag themselves out of the bottom of the Western Conference standings. The team has lost another two games in a row, sit at 4-6-2 on the year, and have a -12 goal differential. The organization has some young players that could potentially inject some energy into the lineup, but Comeau’s placement on waivers still comes as something of a surprise.
Poor Rocco. How one can be expected to produce playing on the Preds so-called 3rd line is asking for alot.
As for the Stars, is there a more disappointing team in the NHL? Too much talent there to be slogging around like they are
Definitely need a change! After last nights press conference. Makes you wonder why them?
We all loved Monty. I wish whatever happened, hadn’t. Bowness took over a great situation and made it worse and worse.
I couldn’t agree more
I’m wondering if this continues, will this be the year we start over at the deadline?
Get whatever we can for Rads, Pavs and Dobby. See if anyone will get us out of the 3(?) year contract with Sutter. Look long and hard at trying to shed Seguin while he’s still a very very good player.
Maybe even throw a decent pick out to see if anyone will take Benn’s contract, or eat half of it and try and get an actual return for him.
Start over with Miro, Robertson, Guri and Oettinger as the core. Maybe see if we can sign Roope to a long term contract for while his numbers aren’t looking so hot and bank on it being a good gamble.
Get Dellandrea back up and start drafting like Ottawa has the last few years. Give me size with skating skills that play super physical and see if we can’t rebuild this thing.
Draft guys like Sanderson, Kleven, Pinto, Boucher, obviously Brady Tkachuk. Just completely start over young with size and speed and hope the skill comes a long. We look awful right now and it seems like our old team is getting even older not younger with every off-season.
Just clearing cap for Bishop to return? Will they keep Comeau up if he clears waivers? There are a number of teams that could use an improvement on their 4th lines. I think he gets claimed.