March 7: Johansen, Lockwood and Moverare cleared waivers today, Chris Johnston of TSN and The Athletic reports. Anderson-Dolan was claimed off waivers by the Predators.
March 6: As trade deadline season is in full swing, so too is the NHL’s waiver wire. Frank Seravalli of The Daily Faceoff lists four players finding themselves on the wire today. Furthermore, Seravalli also notes that all players placed on waivers yesterday have cleared. The list for today is as follows:
Los Angeles Kings
F Jaret Anderson-Dolan
D Jacob Moverare
Florida Panthers
F William Lockwood
Philadelphia Flyers
F Ryan Johansen
For Los Angeles, the team will free up a bit of cap space leading up to the trade deadline on Friday. Both Anderson-Dolan and Moverare have been used as depth players for much of the season, and shouldn’t alter the continuity of the lineup moving forward in their absence.
After trading for Vladimir Tarasenko this morning, Lockwood’s roster spot fell victim to the chopping block. Whether or not Lockwood clears by tomorrow afternoon, the Panthers will now roll with 14 forwards on their active roster.
Lastly, this waiver placement will mark Johansen’s name in the second transaction today, as he was recently traded to the Flyers from the Colorado Avalanche in the Sean Walker trade a few moments ago. With 50% of his salary still being paid by the Nashville Predators, Johansen and his $4MM salary will be available to rest of the league for the next 24 hours.
Rob best make a smart move here to upgrade this team that on paper should be performing better.
I told a Bruins friend of mine today. How about Grz, Forbort, And Ullmark for Phillip Danault. Bruins need a Center, LA needs a goaltender and D depth.
Not Danault! You can have PLD & Rittich for Ullmark and Zacha.
Kings are not trading Danault.
Can someone explain the logic of the Johansen thing from the Flyers POV? I don’t get it.
RyJo and Torts not buddies, maybe???
They are about to become buddies!
Nope. If Johansen was a UFA at the end of the season I could see it. Taking his contract off Colorado’s books to get a better return for Walker. But with Johansen owed $4M against the cap next year the Flyers did not get enough to justify eating that much salary. Even if they plan on buying him out at the end of the year.
There’s a problem with Johansen and the Avs, Maybe Philly is aware and dosen’t like what they hear.
Would love to see them move DuBois for a useful player.
Trade PLD for RyJo (1/2 salary) and Laughton and a 2nd and put Ellis on LTIR to cover the cap. LOL
LOL is right. At least right now that PLD contract is untradable. Nobody will touch that.
Maybe it’s time for Rob to go.