The St. Louis Blues have assigned winger Matt Luff and defenseman Corey Schueneman to their AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds, after they cleared waivers.

Luff, 28, is entering his second season with the Thunderbirds after pouring in 18 goals and 45 points in 50 games last year. 

The 6-foot-3, right-handed shooter started his professional career with the Los Angeles Kings franchise, before playing with the Nashville Predators, Detroit Red Wings and the Florida Panthers AHL affiliate.

Luff has played 276 games in the AHL, scoring 87 goals and 212 points. In the NHL, Luff has scored 15 goals and 27 points in 106 games. Luff hasn't played any games in the NHL with the Blues.

Schueneman, 30, is a left-handed defenseman also playing in his second season with the Thunderbirds. In 63 games, Schueneman scored four goals and 20 points. In his AHL career, Schueneman has recorded 25 goals and 110 points in 307 games.

Schueneman skated in four games with the Blues last year, but did not record any points. In his career, Schueneman has played in 35 games, scoring two goals and seven points. 

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The Detroit Red Wings are understandably hoping for big things in the career of goaltender Sebastian Cossa, whom they selected in 2021 (15th overall). 

As is the case with many goaltenders, Cossa's development has included both ups and downs so far in his tenures with the Toledo Walleye and the Grand Rapids Griffins. 

Cossa faltered down the stretch last season for the Griffins, and didn't perform much better in the Calder Cup Playoffs when he was pulled during what was a three-game series loss. 

He's already made two starts in pre-season play, making 15 saves on 17 shots in a 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Sept. 23, but his start against the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday wasn't as successful. 

Cossa surrendered four goals on the 16 shots he faced as part of a 5-2 loss, which included a tally from Tage Thompson in the final frame in which he was scrambling to get back into position, albeit too late. 

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As far as what head coach Todd McLellan believes about Cossa's performance against the Sabres, there were both positives and negatives, but his overall outlook of eventual starting goaltender material remains unchanged. 

"I think that Sebastian has an opportunity to blossom into an outstanding goaltender, and he'll keep working towards that," McLellan said following Monday's practice. "Some of the goals that went in on him were - I don't know if a lot of guys would stop them."

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"But that's okay - it's some of the other clean up stuff around the crease," he continued. "Being alert, he took a penalty when he went out and misplayed the puck below the goal line, those are are need to get cleaned up. And that's just being really sharp and alert all game. Even when the puck is away from you, you got to be thinking about what could happen." 

Cossa spoke plainly during Training Camp about the necessity of having a strong season in 2025-26, which also happens to be a contract year for him. He's eligible for restricted free agency next offseason. 

In the meantime, McLellan believes that if Cossa makes adjustments to certain aspects of his game, he could eventually be Detroit's go-to man in the crease. 

"I think those are areas that he can clean up, but no doubt about it, I think he can be a really good goaltender," McLellan said.

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ST. PAUL, Minn - The Minnesota Wild announced on Monday some cuts to its training camp roster. The roster is now down to 31 players.

The Wild sent forwards Caedan Bankier and Rasmus Kumpulainen, defensemen Carson Lambos and David Spacek and goaltenders Samuel Hlavaj and Riley Mercer to the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL).

Iowa's training camp has begun.

Minnesota also placed forwards Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Ben Jones and defensemen Ben Gleason and Matt Kiersted on waivers for the purpose of assignment to Iowa.

The Wild also released defenseman Wyatt Newpower from his professional tryout. He will report to Iowa training camp.

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The Vancouver Canucks have one of the best problems in the NHL — amass surplus in goaltending talent. It was ultimately for this reason that the team parted ways with Calder Cup MVP Artūrs Šilovs, who wouldn’t have been able to get the NHL playing minutes he wanted when lodged behind Thatcher Demko and Kevin Lankinen. The goaltending puzzle in Abbotsford appears to be set already as well, with Nikita Tolopilo and Ty Young taking up the roles as starter and backup or 1A and 1B. 

Vancouver’s stocked cabinets aren’t limited to just those players, however, as there’s another goaltender who was just put on waivers today. Jiří Patera, who looks to fit in somewhere between the Abbotsford Canucks and the Kalamazoo Wings of the ECHL, is in his second season with the Canucks. Unfortunately, this is also his second season ending up on the waiver wire for Vancouver before the start of the regular season. While no one knows how things could go from here, the hope is that Patera’s second pre-season waivers stint isn’t as tumultuous as his first. 

Last year, the Canucks sent Patera down to Abbotsford during the pre-season, needing to place him on waivers in order to do so. The Boston Bruins, who’d been having difficulties trying to navigate their goaltending situation as they were negotiating the terms of a new deal with starting goaltender Jeremy Swayman, claimed Patera from the Canucks to remedy any potential issues. 

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Only a couple of days later, Boston resolved their issues by signing Swayman to an eight-year, $8.25M AAV contract. This gave them the freedom to send Patera down to their AHL affiliate, the Providence Bruins. But doing so would require putting Patera on waivers. 

With Patera back on waivers, the Canucks made their claim, re-acquiring the goaltender they’d lost only a few days ago and retaining him as a part of their AHL core for that season. Now, Patera is back on waivers, and plenty of NHL teams are in a situation where they should search for more goaltending depth. Only time will tell where Patera ends up this year. 

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The New Jersey Devils played their fourth preseason game yesterday in a split-squad matchup. Half the team faced the Ottawa Senators on the road, while the other half hosted the Washington Capitals in New Jersey.

The New Jersey group started slowly but battled back to force overtime, ultimately falling 3–2 in a shootout. Despite the loss, there were several key takeaways.

Devils Lineup (vs. Washington)

Gritsyuk – Hughes – Bratt

Palat – Hischier – Meier

Lachance – Melovsky – Hameenaho

MacDermid – Glendening – Halonen

Casey – Pesce

Dillon – Nemec

Vilen – Osipov

Markstrom, Daws

This lineup was the closest to a regular-season look so far this preseason, with Jacob Markstrom starting in goal. The Devils managed two goals in regulation.

The first came 15:10 into the second period, when captain Nico Hischier scored off a wrist shot assisted by Jack Hughes and Jesper Bratt, cutting the Capitals’ lead to 2–1.

Shane Lachance tied the game midway through the third, finishing a play set up by Hughes and Simon Nemec.

New Jersey was heavily outshot early, 10–2 in the first period, but narrowed the gap to 17–8 in the second and 19–18 in the third.

The game was decided in a shootout, which unfolded as follows:

• Jack Hughes scored
• Pierre-Luc Dubois scored
• Jesper Bratt missed
• Ryan Leonard scored
• Arseny Gritsyuk scored
• Jakob Chychrun missed
• Timo Meier missed
• Aliaksei Protas missed
• Nico Hischier missed
• Andrew Cristall scored, clinching the win for Washington

Meanwhile, the squad in Ottawa fared no better.

Devils Lineup (vs. Ottawa)

Dadonov – Mercer – Brown

Cotter – Glass – Legare

Bordeleau – Rooney – Squires

Crookshank – Lammikko – Parent

Cholowski – Addison

Edwards – Strand

White – Diotte

Romanov, Malek

The Devils were shut out 2–0 by the Senators, with Ottawa scoring twice in the third period. Stephen Halliday and Olle Lycksell provided the goals.

New Jersey took three penalties: Cholowski (holding, 1st period), and Strand and Brown (tripping, 3rd period). The standout for the Devils was goaltender Romanov, who stopped 61 shots for a .968 save percentage and 1.02 goals against average.

Both Devils squads came up short, and the organization has now begun roster cuts ahead of the 2025–26 regular season opener on October 9 against the Carolina Hurricanes.

New Jersey will close out the preseason with two more games: Thursday, October 2 against the New York Rangers, and Saturday, October 4 against the Philadelphia Flyers.

According to The Leafs Nation's Nick Alberga, former Montreal Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty is retiring and is now working for the University of Michigan, which is where he played his college hockey. 

Alberga also noted that Pacioretty received interest from multiple teams in free agency this off-season. 

Despite interest from multiple clubs over the summer, Max Pacioretty appears to be hanging up his skates.

He is now working with the University of Michigan.

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Pacioretty was one of the top unrestricted free agents (UFAs) on the market, but based on this report from Alberga, the former Canadiens star is retiring instead of signing elsewhere. 

Pacioretty played in 37 games this past season with the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he had five goals, 13 points, and a minus-2 rating. Yet, he ended his career on a solid note during the playoffs this spring, as he posted three goals, five assists, eight points, and a plus-1 rating in 11 post-season games for the Maple Leafs. 

Pacioretty was selected by the Canadiens with the 22nd overall pick of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft. In 626 games over 10 seasons with the Habs, the 6-foot-2 forward recorded 226 goals, 222 assists, 448 points, 800 hits, and a plus-36 rating. He also served as the Canadiens' captain from 2015-16 to 2017-18 before being traded to the Vegas Golden Knights during the 2018 NHL off-season in exchange for current Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki, forward Tomas Tatar, and a 2019 second-round pick.