From Rich Chere of the Newark Star-Ledger:
Devils GM Lou Lamoriello said this afternoon that he placed Vitaly Vishnevski on waivers as a favor to the player, but it was clear the Russian-born defenseman did not live up to expectations after signing a three-year, $5.4 million deal as a free agent last summer.
Vishnevski, 28, cleared waivers yesterday and will return to play in Russia.
“He’s a great kid. He was great in every aspect,” Lamoriello said. “He communicated to us he wanted to go to Russia for personal reasons, so we put him on waivers for him to do that. It was all above-board. We pit him on waivers so everyone would have a shot at him, but I’m sure everyone knew what his situation was.”
Read the entire article here.
Vishnevski will now head back to Russia and sign with a KHL team.
He kicks off his first year as bench boss in Winnipeg on day 1 of…
We heard from the versatile forward after the afternoon session on day 1 of training…
Second group hits the ice at hockey for all centre.
Hear from the Jets GM on the first day of camp.
Coming into his second training camp the Jets 2021 2nd rounder is feeling confident.
Hear from number 44 after first skate of training camp.