While it was a successful tryout for Coyotes forward Alex Galchenyuk, who inked a one-year deal for the league-minimum salary earlier this week, the news got worse fairly quickly. Craig Morgan of PHNX Sports reports that the 27-year-old is listed as week-to-week with an upper-body injury. Galchenyuk split last season between Ottawa and Toronto, notching 13 points in 34 games and was pushing for a regular spot in Arizona’s lineup to start the season.
Meanwhile, in that same report, Morgan adds that blueliner Kyle Capobianco is also listed as week-to-week due to a lower-body injury. The 24-year-old had a chance at landing a spot on the opening roster for the Coyotes after spending most of last season in the minors where he had 13 points in 20 games with AHL Tucson. Instead, Capobianco will also be starting the year on injured reserve.
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- Alexander Nylander’s stock has certainly fallen since the 23-year-old was selected eighth overall by Buffalo back in 2016, but it could be dipping even more as Scott Powers of The Athletic suggests that Nylander is a likely candidate to be waived by the Blackhawks after a disappointing training camp. Powers suggests that Arizona is a team that could have interest in Nylander, who missed all of last season due to knee surgery after recording 10 goals and 16 assists in 65 games in 2019-20.
- While he has an AHL contract in hand, Jets winger Evgeny Svechnikov is expected to be converted to an NHL two-way deal in the coming days, reports Sportsnet’s Ken Wiebe. The 24-year-old impressed in the preseason with four points in five games — good for third on Winnipeg — which still has him in the mix to earn a spot at the end of the roster to start the regular season. Svechnikov had eight points in 21 games with Detroit last season before clearing waivers in early April.
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