Sharks Sign Mason Marchment To Five-Year Deal
Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reports that the San Jose Sharks are nearing a five-year deal with Mason Marchment. It is a five-year, $33.75MM contract carrying a yearly cap hit of $6.75MM per a team announcement.
The deal adds both size and production to the Sharks’ top six who had a gap to fill after trading William Eklund to Ottawa for the No. 9 pick (Keaton Verhoeff) back on June 23rd.
Marchment, 31, is coming off of a season split in two. Dealt from Dallas to Seattle prior to the 2025-26 season, Marchment posted 13 points in 29 games with the Kraken before a December trade to Columbus. As a member of the Blue Jackets, Marchment was revived. During his 39-game tenure, Marchment spent the majority of his time on a line with Adam Fantilli and Kirill Marchenko, and tallied 15 goals and 32 points.
The Uxbridge, Ontario native will find no shortage of talent when he arrives in San Jose, having the opportunity to play with the likes of Macklin Celebrini, Will Smith, and Michael Misa. Marchment’s style of play should complement the young, highly skilled players on the Sharks’ roster.
Additionally, the signing also has a personal dimension to it. Mason’s late father, Bryan Marchment, played six seasons for the Sharks and later worked in the organization as a scout and in player development.
Through 370 career games, Marchment has 95 goals and 234 points, and San Jose will bank on that production as it continues to build around its impressive young core.
Free Agency Notes: Marchment, Giroux, Kane
After the Columbus Blue Jackets acquired Valeri Nichushkin from the Colorado Avalanche, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that Mason Marchment would be hitting the market as an unrestricted free agent. Still the case as of this morning, TSN’s Darren Dreger reports that Marchment should have a robust market once the market opens up at noon eastern, with the San Jose Sharks being a likely landing spot.
Additionally, TSN’s Pierre LeBrun shared that the Montreal Canadiens are another team with interest in Marchment, but are hesitant to sign him to a long-term deal to avoid blocking younger players on the roster. However, if the Canadiens are unwilling to offer Marchment a multi-year deal of any kind, it’s unlikely that he will take his talents to Quebec.
Regardless, it’s not surprising that Marchment will have a robust market. After middling out with the Seattle Kraken, Marchment went on a tear with the Blue Jackets, scoring 15 goals and 32 points in 39 games with a +21 rating, averaging 17:41 of ice time per game. It’s unlikely he could manage to keep up that scoring pace throughout a season, but Marchment remains one of the better options as a middle-six complement for many teams around the league.
Additional free agency notes:
- After failing to gain traction in negotiations with the Ottawa Senators, LeBrun confirmed that Claude Giroux would hit the open market this afternoon. Although his scoring has dissipated in each of the four years he has been with the Senators, Giroux remains a solid secondary contributor, scoring 14 goals and 49 points in 82 games with a +20 rating. Additionally, the 38-year-old Giroux remains arguably the best faceoff taker in the league, winning 504 of 799 draws (63.1%) this past season. He is keeping the door open for a return to Ottawa, but Giroux will have the opportunity to speak with 31 other teams this afternoon.
- Another veteran will join Giroux on the open market. After signing three consecutive one-year deals with the Detroit Red Wings, LeBrun indicated that Patrick Kane will become an unrestricted free agent this afternoon. Like Giroux, Kane is leaving the door open for a return to Detroit. However, with Dylan Larkin on the outs, Kane may look for an opportunity to get back into the playoffs with a different team. He has remained a strong offensive contributor, registering 16 goals and 57 points in 67 games for the Red Wings this past season. Like Giroux, Kane would be a strong fit on multiple different teams.
Free Agency Notes: Marchment, Mikheyev, Bobrovsky, Glendening
Back in February, a few months after acquiring him, the Columbus Blue Jackets pivoted toward signing Mason Marchment to an extension, rather than trading him at the deadline. However, an extension was never agreed to, and Marchment is expected to reach free agency in one week, where he will likely have a very robust market.
According to TSN’s Pierre LeBrun, several teams will be interested in signing Marchment should he reach free agency on July 1st. However, LeBrun added that the Blue Jackets are still holding out hope they can sign him to an extension, with an 11th-hour final push on the horizon.
It was a tale of two seasons for Marchment. The 31-year-old winger struggled with the Seattle Kraken, scoring four goals and 13 points in 29 games. However, after the Kraken traded him to the Blue Jackets, he went on a tear, registering 15 goals and 32 points in 39 contests to close out the regular season. There’s little expectation that Marchment will continue to be a point-per-game player, but he has proven to be a quality secondary scorer for the past five years, and would be one of the better forward options on the free agent market.
Additional free agency notes:
- It’s been known for the last few weeks that winger Ilya Mikheyev would not be signing an extension with the Chicago Blackhawks. The Blackhawks pivoted toward shopping Mikheyev’s signing rights to interested parties, but it turns out they didn’t get much traction there, either. According to Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago is preparing to lose Mikheyev on the market for nothing next Wednesday. The middle-six forward has spent the past two years with the Blackhawks, scoring 38 goals and 70 points in 157 games with a +6 rating, averaging 16:32 of ice time per game.
- According to George Richards of Florida Hockey Now, General Manager Bill Zito hasn’t closed the door on signing netminder Sergei Bobrovsky to one last contract. Florida is in a similar situation to last offseason, when they were set to lose one of three key players in Sam Bennett, Brad Marchand, or Aaron Ekblad. Somehow, the Panthers managed to keep all three. However, the situation is far different with Bobrovsky, who is nearly 38 years old, coming off the worst season of his professional career, and is reportedly seeking a six- to seven-year deal in the $42MM range.
- Although he’s not a huge priority for the Philadelphia Flyers, Kevin Kurz of The Athletic reported that the team is interested in retaining veteran center Luke Glendening for the 2026-27 season. Glendening, 37, played admirably for the Flyers after they claimed him off waivers at last year’s deadline, scoring two goals and five points in 18 regular-season contests, with another goal through 10 games in the postseason.
The Kraken Need To Choose A Path This Summer
The Kraken missed the playoffs once again this spring, finishing with the sixth-worst point total in the NHL. They had the luxury of playing in the much weaker Western Conference, but still missed the postseason by 11 points, finishing with a 34-37-11 record and a -37 goal differential.
Seattle has made the playoffs just once in its short five-year history, and none of those appearances have come in the past three seasons. Now, with a team largely set to return next season, aside from a couple of veteran unrestricted free agents, it’s become a moment for general manager Jason Botterill to reflect and decide what direction he wants to take a club that looked lost this past season.
A perfect example of the Kraken’s lack of direction is Mason Marchment’s run with the team. Marchment was dealt to Seattle last June in exchange for a 2026 third-round pick and the Stars’ 2025 fourth-round pick.
It was a decent little move for the Kraken and showed they were looking to make additions. Fast-forward six months (plus a day), and the Kraken sent Marchment to the Blue Jackets for a 2027 second-round pick and the New York Rangers’ 2026 fourth-round pick.
It was a decent turn of events for the Kraken, as they upgraded one pick from a third to a second and got a look at Marchment for a few months. It would have been a tidy piece of work had it ended there.
A few months later, at the trade deadline, Seattle acquired Bobby McMann from the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for a second-round pick in 2027 and a 2026 fourth-round pick. The deal, in a vacuum, was good.
McMann has been a steady scorer over the past couple of years and added a lot to the Kraken lineup. However, he is a pending UFA and is set to cash in big time this summer. Seattle likely believed he could help with a playoff push, but with the Kraken’s underwhelming lineup on paper, it was a bit of a fool’s errand and could leave the team holding the bag if he jumped ship in July.
What could be a worse outcome for Seattle is if McMann re-signs long-term. The Kraken already have a number of undesirable long-term deals with veteran players, and McMann is sure to be overpaid when he hits free agency. Seattle has to resist the urge to extend McMann, but it’s hard to say whether they will, given the team’s lack of direction in recent years.
That being said, there is a glimmer of hope for Seattle and a fairly obvious direction the team should take. The Kraken have the seventh-ranked prospect system in the NHL (according to Scott Wheeler of The Athletic) and should be able to rebuild their roster sooner rather than later if they can avoid the urge to sign overpriced veterans, or, in the case of McMann, trade for them when they aren’t playoff-bound.
Ultimately, the Marchment/McMann fiasco cost the Kraken only mid-tier draft picks, which is forgivable given that the Kraken thought they had a playoff push, though it ultimately flopped. But the work in free agency needs to be scrutinized and scaled back if Seattle wants to have any hope of building and keeping a core.
In the past two summers, the team has signed UFAs to deals that were panned at the time and look even worse in hindsight. Ryan Lindgren was signed last summer to a four-year deal worth $4.5MM per season and has not been a good fit with the team.
The Kraken were outplayed whenever Lindgren was on the ice this year, and he was a turnover machine, coughing up the puck more than ever before in his NHL career. He also toned down his hitting dramatically, which didn’t really correct some of the other issues with his game.
If the Lindgren deal was bad, the Chandler Stephenson contract from 2024 is atrocious. On the surface, it looks fine, as he put up 49 points (16 goals and 33 assists) last season in 80 games.
But he has five years left on the deal at $6.25MM per season and gets absolutely crushed at even strength, posting a 40.8 CF%, meaning he is a drag on his teammates from a possession perspective. Sure, he takes a lot of the tough defensive assignments, but there is an argument that he could be among the worst 5-on-5 forwards in the entire NHL, and, in turn, one of the worst contracts in the league as well.
There is also the signing of defenseman Brandon Montour in July 2024. That deal hasn’t been a disaster, and Montour has been fairly productive offensively while continuing to struggle defensively.
Heading into year three of a seven-year, $50MM contract, the back half of his deal could be a huge problem for the Kraken as they enter the competitive window with the young group of players they have drafted and developed. At 32, Montour hasn’t shown an obvious decline, but if his skating begins to deteriorate, there will be major issues with his game both offensively and defensively.
With such a weak UFA market and so many teams with a pile of cap space, this could be the best opportunity for Seattle to commit to a short rebuild and start trimming some of the older, more expensive players, such as Lindgren, Stephenson, and Montour, from their roster, in the hopes of not boxing themselves in when they are ready to contend with the elite young players in their system.
Time will tell whether they have the stomach for the short-term pain, but if they do, they could create the kind of flexibility in two to three years that teams dream of when they try to tear down and recalibrate their rosters.
Metropolitan Notes: Protas, Frank, Kochetkov, Marchment
The Capitals will welcome back a pair of forwards tonight as they continue their push for a playoff spot against Buffalo. NHL.com’s Tom Gulitti reports (Twitter links) that Aliaksei Protas and Ethen Frank are set to return to the lineup. They’re set to take the place of Ivan Miroshnichenko and David Kampf, who will be healthy scratches.
Protas had missed the past two games with an upper-body injury. While he’s not scoring at the same rate as last year when he had 30 goals and 36 assists in 76 games, the 25-year-old has still been one of Washington’s top scorers with 23 goals and 24 assists through 70 appearances. Frank, meanwhile, was waived by the Capitals in training camp but was recalled soon after and has been a regular since then, notching 12 goals and 12 assists in 64 games, earning a two-year extension for his efforts. He had been out for nearly two weeks with a lower-body injury.
More from the Metropolitan:
- Hurricanes goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov joined the team on the ice at the end of today’s morning skate, relays team reporter Walt Ruff (Twitter link). The netminder was ruled as likely out for the rest of the year after undergoing hip surgery in late December to fix a problem he had been battling through. At this point, it stands to reason that Kochetkov has a long way to go still before being cleared to return but getting back on the ice already suggests he has a chance to get back at some point in the postseason. The 26-year-old has played in just nine games this season with Brandon Bussi and Frederik Andersen shouldering the rest of the goaltending load.
- It appears that the Blue Jackets will get a key winger back tonight. Aaron Portzline of The Athletic notes (Twitter link) that Mason Marchment was a full participant in the morning skate on the top line, suggesting that he’ll return after missing Thursday’s game due to an undisclosed injury. The 30-year-old has been a key contributor since being acquired early in the year from Seattle, notching 14 goals and 13 assists in just 33 games since then. Officially, he’s listed as a game-time decision.
Morning Notes: Thomas, Blue Jackets, Belchetz
The Philadelphia Flyers are highly unlikely to be the landing spot for St. Louis Blues star center Robert Thomas if he is traded before the deadline, The Athletic’s Kevin Kurz reported today. A Flyers team source told Kurz that the team considers a trade for Thomas “completely unreasonable,” and with that feeling likely a result of the high price the Blues have set for teams interested in Thomas. According to Kurz, the Flyers “would probably have to be willing to part with” one of their two young wingers with star potential (Matvei Michkov, Porter Martone) as well as a first-round pick and another young roster player. Despite a pressing organizational need for a top-line center, the Flyers, per this report, believe the Blues’ asking price to simply be too steep for them to get involved in trade talks for Thomas.
Of course, value is in the eye of the beholder. From the Blues’ perspective, they’re likely to believe their high asking price for Thomas to be entirely fair. To an extent, it’s easy to see why. Thomas is an established No. 1 center who scored 81 points in 70 games last season, a 95-point 82-game scoring pace. While his production is down this year, the Blues’ struggles as a team this season make it difficult to pin Thomas’ decline entirely on some lasting decrease in his talent level. Thomas is 26 years old and has five additional seasons on a $8.125MM AAV contract. His below-market cap hit presents a serious opportunity for a team to get surplus value from him, especially as the upper limit rises.
There’s an argument to be made that, combining his talent and contract status, Thomas is one of the more valuable players to have been shopped on the in-season trade market in some time, so it’s understandable that the Blues would want to fetch a high price for the player. Value is all about leverage, after all, and the fact that the Blues can simply retain Thomas for the next half-decade gives them considerable leverage in comparison to a team shopping a rental player. But in any case, the Flyers have to move forward with the path they feel is best for them – and if they deem the Blues’ asking price too high, that is their right. Their search for a first-line center may yet continue in the 2026 draft, or perhaps within the continued development of recent first-rounders Jett Luchanko and Jack Nesbitt.
Other notes from around the hockey world:
- Insider Frank Seravalli reported this morning that the Blue Jackets continue to receive trade inquiries centered around pending UFA forwards Charlie Coyle and Mason Marchment, though to this point, that trade interest has been turned away. Both players have been stellar since being traded to the Blue Jackets, with Marchment scoring 10 goals and 17 points in 18 games, and Coyle nabbing 16 goals and 46 points in 60 games. The Blue Jackets traded second and fourth-round picks for Marchment earlier this season, but could receive more than they invested given the player’s uptick in form since arriving in Ohio. They traded quality prospect Gavin Brindley alongside second and third-round picks for Coyle this past summer, but could receive similar, if not increased, value in return before the deadline. The issue with trading either player would be that it would signal a retreat on their playoff chase for the rest of the season. Columbus sits three points behind the Boston Bruins for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, and has gone 13-2-1 since hiring Rick Bowness as their head coach.
- Top 2026 NHL Draft prospect Ethan Belchetz will miss the rest of the season after suffering a broken left clavicle, per an announcement from his team, the Windsor Spitfires of the OHL. Belchetz was the No. 1 overall pick of the 2024 OHL Priority Selection, and will finish his season with 34 goals and 59 points in 57 games. The 17-year-old stands 6’5″, 226 pounds, and projects as the kind of power forward who blends physicality and scoring ability that NHL teams covet. He has been ranked around the back-end of the top-10 in this year’s class, but it remains to be seen how his draft stock might change despite playing his final game before the draft.
Blue Jackets Looking To Extend Pending UFAs
On New Year’s Day, the Blue Jackets were in last place in the Eastern Conference and had a three-point cushion in the basement. They were all but set to punt on the season, and their high-value pending UFAs, namely Charlie Coyle and Boone Jenner, had found themselves high up on trade bait lists.
Fueled in part by a surprise coaching change, Columbus has now won 11 of its last 12 and is fully back in playoff contention. They’ve gone from 16th place to ninth in the past six weeks and are four points back of the Bruins for the final playoff spot with a game in hand.
If getting rental returns for Coyle and Jenner was general manager Don Waddell‘s deadline plan a month ago, that streak has changed his mind. The organization told RG.org’s James Murphy yesterday that they’ve stopped soliciting offers for Coyle, Jenner, and fellow pending UFA forward Mason Marchment and will instead start extension negotiations with all three players before the Olympic break ends.
All three have been legitimate impact players for the Jackets this season, particularly Coyle and Marchment. Acquired from the Avalanche last summer in something of a cap dump, the veteran Coyle has technically served as Columbus’ third-line center for virtually the entire campaign but is averaging north of 17 minutes of ice time per game thanks to extensive special-teams deployment. Coming off one of the more offensively underwhelming campaigns of his career for Boston and Colorado in 2024-25, he’s tossed up 15 goals and 42 points in 56 games to rank third on the Jackets in scoring.
There will be obvious trepidation over offering anything more than a one or two-year extension to Coyle, who turns 34 next month. He’s finishing at a 15.8% clip, and his possession numbers lag behind the average on a Columbus squad that’s greatly improved its play under Bowness. But for a Jackets squad teeming with cap space over the next couple of seasons, the risk of decline isn’t as pressing as it would be for a cap-strapped contender.
Marchment was a surprising in-season pickup from the Kraken in December, but he’s been the complete package in the nearly two months since his arrival. He’s clicked at nearly a point per game with nine goals and four assists in 14 games since the trade and leads Columbus forwards with a 53.1 CF% at even strength, although he’s helped out by playing a higher percentage of his games under Bowness. He’s still been a natural-looking fit on their top line alongside youngsters Adam Fantilli and Kirill Marchenko.
Jenner may be the afterthought of the three in terms of on-ice performance this season, but he’s the captain and a career-long Blue Jacket. His production has taken something of a hit after missing most of last year with shoulder surgery, but he’s still produced eight goals and 27 points in 42 games, above his career-average pace. His 9.0% shooting rate is a bit below his career average and should come up down the stretch, too.
His 52.0 CF% signals his two-way game is still in a good spot, and he’s third on the team with 92 hits despite missing 14 games with an upper-body issue earlier in the year. Any concern about a long-term extension for the 32-year-old revolves around his extensive recent injury history. He’s missed double-digit games in every season since 2019-20 and has dealt with back problems for the vast majority of his career. The risk of aggressive age-related decline is palpable as a result.
Expecting Columbus to be able to swing extensions for all three is unrealistic – and considering all three are on the wrong side of 30, there’s a debate to be had over whether it’s a wise choice. Still, the question then shifts to whether the Jackets will still look to flip one of them and gain assets in return if it’s clear they’re too far off on an extension.
At least right now, the answer is no. “Regardless of whether they’re signed to extensions before the Olympic break ends, they’re off the trade market heading into the trade deadline,” a league source told Murphy.
“I’ve told everybody we will touch base over the break and see where they’re at and see where we’re at,” Waddell said. “And I said it last year, if players want to be here and we want ’em here, we’ll find a way to get it done. We did it last year, and we’ll do it again this year.”
Blue Jackets Activate Mason Marchment, Place Denton Mateychuk On IR
The Columbus Blue Jackets announced today that forward Mason Marchment has been activated off injured reserve in advance of the team’s game tonight against the Dallas Stars. In a corresponding move, the team placed injured blueliner Denton Mateychuk on IR.
Marchment missed the last eight games due to an upper-body injury, an ailment that halted the momentum he appeared to be building in Columbus after his mid-season trade from the Seattle Kraken. Marchment made an instant impact with the Blue Jackets, scoring five goals and seven points in seven games since the trade.
As a pending UFA, Marchment’s performances down the stretch in 2025-26 were always set to carry an outsized level of importance, at least personally to the player’s future. Marchment’s trade to Columbus only further emphasized the importance of his play in the coming weeks, as he has a chance to secure a spot in the Blue Jackets’ future plans.
The 30-year-old forward only managed four goals and 13 points in 29 games with the Kraken before the trade, prompting some worry that Marchment’s days as a 20-goal, 45 or 50-point scorer could be in the rearview mirror. His performance through seven games as a Blue Jacket went a long way towards silencing those doubts, and he’ll now get the chance to strengthen his position entering negotiations on his next contract.
Replacing Marchment on IR is Mateychuk, who has been out since Jan. 11 with an upper-body injury. It was reported earlier this week that the hope for Mateychuk is that he’ll be able to return at some point in the latter portion of this week. The Blue Jackets made Mateychuk’s IR placement retroactive to Jan. 11, meaning he’s eligible to return to the team’s active roster whenever he’s healthy.
Columbus has a full 23-man roster at this moment, so a corresponding move is likely to be necessary whenever Mateychuk is able to return. Seeing as blueliner Dante Fabbro is set to miss at least a week with a lower-body injury, it’s likely that whenever Mateychuk is ready to return, Fabbro will replace him on IR to open up a roster spot.
Mateychuk, 21, is a key young defenseman for the Blue Jackets. He’s their No. 3 defenseman in terms of ice time this season, averaging 20:20 per game including 2:12 on the penalty kill. He’s also managed to score eight goals and 21 points in 44 games.
Blue Jackets To Activate Mason Marchment, Isac Lundestrom
The Columbus Blue Jackets will return a pair of forwards tomorrow. Relayed from reporter Dave Maetzold, head coach Rick Bowness indicated that forwards Mason Marchment and Isac Lundeström will be activated from the injured reserve before tomorrow’s game against the Dallas Stars.
Activating both forwards will require an additional roster move by the Blue Jackets. It’ll likely come in the form of placing another player on injured reserve, rather than reassigning one to the AHL’s Cleveland Monsters. Columbus has a few players dealing with ailments that haven’t been placed on the team’s injured reserve, including Dante Fabbro, Elvis Merzļikins, and Denton Mateychuk.
Marchment, acquired from the Seattle Kraken in December, will look to continue his hot streak with Columbus. The 30-year-old winger scored five goals and seven points in his first seven games with the Blue Jackets before succumbing to an upper-body injury at the beginning of the month. Tomorrow’s game against the Stars will be the third time he’s faced off against his former club after going scoreless in the two previous matchups.
Lundeström, 26, is in his first year with Columbus after signing a two-year contract with the club last summer. The former first-round pick has primarily served as a bottom-six center for the Blue Jackets this season, scoring one goal and five points in 35 games. He has missed the last month with a lower-body injury.
Meanwhile, outside of Miles Wood, it’ll be the first time that Bowness has had a relatively healthy forward core to work with since becoming the team’s head coach on January 12th. The team has improved since he took over, managing a 3-1-0 record. Still, Columbus has plenty of work to do to get back into the playoff conversation, currently sitting seven points back of the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.
Blue Jackets Place Mason Marchment On IR, Dysin Mayo On Waivers
Jan. 8: Mayo cleared waivers and has been reassigned to Cleveland, per Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet.
Jan. 7: The Blue Jackets announced they’ve placed winger Mason Marchment on injured reserve retroactive to Jan. 4. He sustained an upper-body injury in that day’s game against the Penguins and is considered week-to-week, the team said. They’ve recalled forward Mikael Pyyhtia from AHL Cleveland in a corresponding move. Additionally, defenseman Dysin Mayo has been placed on waivers and will be assigned to Cleveland tomorrow if he clears.
Marchment, 30, was scratched for yesterday’s 5-2 loss to the Sharks due to the injury. He didn’t appear to miss any action against Pittsburgh, so a week-to-week designation without any obvious-to-sight injury comes across as worse than expected. He would be eligible to come off IR as soon as Sunday against the Mammoth, but will seemingly miss several more games than that.
Acquired from the Kraken on Dec. 19, the trade has breathed new life into Marchment’s game. The 6’5″ lefty is tied with Kirill Marchenko for the team lead in goals since the swap with five. That’s one more than he had in 29 games with Seattle to begin the season.
The top-nine spark plug is now up to 20 points in 36 games on the year. That works out to 0.56 per game, his worst pace since 2022-23 with the Stars. Despite that, he’s still shooting a bit above his career average, so he’ll need to focus on continuing to get more pucks on net with Columbus when he returns to avoid a bout of regression.
Marchment had been skating on the Jackets’ top line with Marchenko and Adam Fantilli. Dmitri Voronkov took over those duties against San Jose and was dominant at 5-on-5, with that line controlling shot attempts 13-2.
It’s not anticipated that Pyyhtia will enter the lineup against the Golden Knights tomorrow. Instead, he comes up as Marchment is flexed to IR to give Columbus a healthy extra for the press box. With Marchment, Isac Lundeström, and Miles Wood now off the active roster, the Jackets’ forward depth has been stretched thin.
There are far worse recall options than Pyyhtia, though. The 24-year-old was a fourth-round pick in 2020 and has 66 games of NHL experience, including a career-high 47 appearances last season. After failing to crack the Jackets’ opening night roster this season, he’s put up nearly a point per game with Cleveland while leading the team in scoring (7-15–22 in 23 GP).
Mayo had become expendable after the club’s signing of Egor Zamula yesterday. He had been serving as a press-box defenseman with Erik Gudbranson and Brendan Smith on IR, but with Jake Christiansen set to be supplanted by Zamula in the lineup, Mayo was a redundancy. The 29-year-old righty has one assist in two outings for Columbus this year, as well as seven points and a -2 rating in 19 games for Cleveland.