After being placed on waivers for the purposes of sending them down to the Stockton Heat, Flames prospects Hunter Shinkaruk, Emile Poirier, and Tyler Wotherspoon have all cleared waivers.
The move doesn’t come as much of a surprise, seeing as how a lot of players were placed on waivers yesterday (and a lot more are on waivers today). With all 31 teams assembling their rosters, there are a ton of cuts league-wide – and it’s not exactly expected to see teams add borderline, at best, players to their NHL rosters. (Any claimed player has to be added to the team’s NHL roster.