With Roberto Luongo going down with a hand injury recently, the Panthers acted quickly and immediately picked Antti Niemi up from waivers. Niemi, who was recently waived by Pittsburgh, posts a SV% of .797 and holds a frightful slash line of 0-3-0.
Allowing sixteen goals in his past three games with the Penguins, his former team had no choice but to place the 34-year-old on waivers. Antti will now backup James Reimer in-goal and will be called upon in crucial/emergency situations.
With Niemi’s arrival comes Sateri’s demotion. Dale Tallon announced today (on Wednesday, October 25th) that Harri Sateri will be loaned out to the Springfield Thunderbirds.