21 players sent to AHL, five placed on waivers for purposes of reassignment
The Vegas Golden Knights have assigned 21 players to their AHL affiliate Henderson Silver Knights and placed five more on waivers with the purposes of sending them to Henderson.
Forwards Braeden Bowman, Jakub Brabenec, Ben Hemmerling, Bear Hughes, Jett Jones, Riley McKay, Mitch McLain, Simon Pinard, Matyas Sapovaliv, Sloan Stanick, Kai Uchacz, and goaltenders Jesper Vikman, Isaiah Saville, and Carl Lindbom were sent down, as well as defensemen Jake Bischoff, Daniil Chayka, Artur Cholach, Joe Fleming, Brandon Hickey, Samuel Mayer, and Christoffer Sedoff.
Lindbom will be playing his first season in North America.
Forwards Gage Quinney, Cal Burke, Grigori Denisenko, Mason Geertsen, and defenseman Dysin Mayo were placed on waivers.
Denisenko lead the Silver Knights in scoring last season with 56 points in 65 games while Mayo played the second most games on the team and lead all Henderson defensemen in scoring.
Mayo, Denisenko, Chayka, Bischoff, Geertsen, Brabenec, Sedoff, Quinney, Hickey, Jones, Saville, Vikman, Pinard, and Fleming all played AHL games last season, as did Mathieu Cataford, who Vegas sent back to the CHL.
Some of these 26 players will end up playing for Vegas' ECHL affiliate Tahoe Knight Monsters.
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