Capitals place Sheldon Rempal on waivers for Oct. 23

The Washington Capitals placed forward Sheldon Rempal on the waiver wire on Thursday afternoon.

Rempal, who spent the 2024-25 season with Ufa Salavat Yulayev of the KHL, came back to North America and made a bit for the Capitals’ Opening Night roster, but he was assigned to the team’s AHL affiliate Hershey Bears.

There, he’d appeared in four games, scoring a goal and recording an assist in his appearances prior to this transaction.

According to Sammi Silber of The Hockey News, the decision to waive Rempal is likely for the purposes of mutually terminating his contract, which would open the door to signing to play overseas.

Rempal, a native of Calgary, played for the Nanimo Clippers of the BCHL before playing at the collegiate level at Clarkson University. He then turned pro as a member of the Los Angeles Kings‘ organization, immediately establishing himself as an impactful player at theAHL level with 40 points in 59 games with the Ontario Reign.

Rempal has made NHL appearances with the Kings, Carolina Hurricanes, Vegas Golden Knights and Vancouver Canucks, recording two goals and an assist in 21 games played. His best year in the AHL came with the Abbotsford Canucks in 2021-22, when he erupted for 69 points in 55 games played.

If he does depart the organization, his loss would be a tough blow to the Bears, who are consistently one of the more dominant teams in the AHL. Rempal signed a one-year, two-way contract with a $775,000 cap hit at the NHL level on July 7.

The Capitals are off to a 5-2-0 start to the campaign that has them sitting in fourth place in a Metropolitan Division that has proven quite competitive in the early going.

Washington cruised to winning the division a year ago and knocked Montreal out of the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs before falling to Carolina in the second round.