The Detroit Pink Wings have positioned goaltender Ville Husso on waivers for the aim of a mortgage to the AHL, per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. Husso is within the closing yr of a three-year, $14.25M contract signed with Detroit in the summertime of 2022. His $4.75M cap hit is tied for the eighth-highest in Detroit.
Detroit’s plan to hold three goaltenders has been clear because it signed Cam Talbot to a two-year, $5M contract on July 1. Talbot joined a room already rife with competitors between Alex Lyon and Husso. Lyon has been the odd-man-out within the early going, standing as the one Wings goalie to not but begin a sport. Husso wasn’t inspiring within the matchup he acquired, permitting 4 targets on 14 pictures and getting pulled for Talbot. That weak efficiency appears to be the spark behind his waiving Sunday, regardless of Husso’s .940 save share by three pre-season video games suggesting some upside.
The Pink Wings will now transfer ahead with Cam Talbot as their clear-cut starter, rewarding his 54 saves on 56 pictures (.964) by two video games to date. Lyon will step up because the workforce’s backup just some months faraway from profitable the beginning function over Husso, recording 21 wins and a .904 in 44 video games final season. In the meantime, Husso’s path to ice time gained’t grow to be any clearer if he heads to the minor leagues, with Grand Rapids presently led by prime prospect Sebastian Cossa. Cossa managed one win and 64 saves on 68 pictures (.941) by Grand Rapids’ first two video games of the season this weekend and has posted a .913 save share in every of the final three seasons. Even pitted in opposition to the near-$5M man that’s Husso, it’d be arduous to award begins to some other Griffins goalie — solely rising the joy round Detroit’s crowded goalie room.
