West Notes: Cooley, Brisebois, Slaggert

The Flames are one of a few teams that don’t have their goaltending tandem in place for the upcoming season.  While Dustin Wolf is entrenched as the starter, Devin Cooley and offseason signing Ivan Prosvetov are battling for the number two job.  One will get it and the other will likely be waived.  However, Sportsnet’s Eric Francis reports that several teams have expressed interest in Cooley while Prosvetov had other suitors this summer.  Accordingly, it would appear that there’s a decent chance that whoever doesn’t get the job could be grabbed off waivers.  Calgary could also elect to carry three goalies to start the season although with it being likely that they’ll have eight defensemen to start, that approach wouldn’t exactly be ideal.

More from out West:

• Canucks defenseman Guillaume Brisebois is out indefinitely after undergoing surgery to fix a lower-body injury, relays Canucks Army’s Jeff Paterson (Twitter link). The 28-year-old was only in three games with Vancouver last season but was up with the club for a few weeks.  As a result, the Canucks will have a prorated cap charge of a little over $88K while he’s on season-opening IR, per PuckPedia.  The 28-year-old played in 48 games during the regular season with AHL Abbotsford in 2024-25, picking up five points.
• Blackhawks winger Landon Slaggert has been dealing with an undisclosed injury in recent days but it appears he’s nearing a return. Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times relays (Twitter link) that the 23-year-old is on track to return to practice on Tuesday and could get into a preseason game next weekend, putting him on track to be ready for the start of the season.  Slaggert split last year between Chicago and AHL Rockford, getting into 33 NHL appearances where he had six points while adding 25 points in 39 contests with the IceHogs.