NHL waiver wire heats up on Sept. 27 as teams make roster decisions

With just over a week to go before the start of the NHL’s 2024-25 regular season, teams are starting to cut players from their training camp rosters and prepare their lineups for opening night.
On Friday, the NHL saw a number of players be placed on waivers, according to PuckPedia. Below are the list of transactions:
On Waivers today: PHI: Attard, Belpedio, Gardner OTT: Hodgson, Reinhardt, Rees, Pilon, Matinpalo, Guenette, Davies SEA: Henman, Brouillard CBJ: Sawchenko NYR: Leschyshyn, Harpur, Belzile VAN: Woo, Brisebois puckpedia.com/transactions
Columbus Blue Jackets
The Blue Jackets placed goaltender Zachary Sawchenko on waivers for the purpose of assignment to their AHL affiliate, the Cleveland Monsters.
Team Update 🚨 We've reduced our training camp roster by five players. D Stanislav Svozil has been loaned to the @monstershockey. Forwards Jake Gaudet, Stefan Matteau and Justin Pearson have been returned to the Monsters. G Zach Sawchenko has been placed on waivers for the
New York Rangers
The Rangers played forwards Alex Belzile and Jake Leschyshyn, as well as defenseman Ben Harpur, on waivers for the purpose of assignment to their AHL affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack.
The New York Rangers have placed the following players on waivers: F Alex Belzile F Jake Leschyshyn D Ben Harpur #NYR
Ottawa Senators
The Senators placed a number of players on waivers Friday. Forwards Hayden Hodgson, Cole Reinhardt, Jamieson Rees, Garrett Pilon and defenseman Jeremy Davies were all placed on waivers for the purpose of assignment to their AHL affiliate, the Belleville Senators.
Roster update: The #Sens have completed the following transactions. Players assigned to @BellevilleSens training camp: Wyatt Bongiovanni, Tyler Boucher, Xavier Bourgault, Jake Chiasson, Angus Crookshank, Phillippe Daoust, Jorian Donovan, Stephen Halliday, Tomas Hamara, Oskar
Philadelphia Flyers
The Flyers placed forward Rhett Gardner, as well as defensemen Ronnie Attard and Louie Belpedio on waivers for the purpose of assignment to their AHL affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
Seattle Kraken
The Kraken placed forward Luke Henman and defenseman Nikolas Brouillad on waivers for the purpose of assign to their AHL affiliate, the Coachella Valley Firebirds.
The #SeaKraken have placed the following players on waivers for the purpose of being assigned to Coachella Valley: Nikolas Brouillard Luke Henman
Vancouver Canucks
The Canucks placed defenseman Guillaume Brisebois and Jett Woo on waivers for the purpose of assigning them to their AHL affiliate, the Abbotsford Canucks.
General Manager Patrik Allvin announced today that defencemen Jett Woo and Guillaume Brisebois have been assigned to Abbotsford (AHL).
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