Dominic Toninato has been placed on Waivers.
Among the NHL's Waiver wire updates on Thursday, was news that the Winnipeg Jets had placed forward Dominic Toninato on Waivers.
In hopes of assigning the 29-year-old to the American Hockey League's Manitoba Moose, the Jets will need to have him pass through unclaimed in order to comply with league rulings.
Thanks to Kyle Connor being placed on the team's injured reserve, Toninato served as a standard AHL recall who served as a listed healthy scratch on Wednesday.
Having cleared Waivers back on October 2, Toninato has been listed on Winnipeg's roster for a full month, meaning he will need to clear once again, in order to achieve a clean slate.
Should a claim (or more) be put in on the Duluth, MN. product, he would immediately join the interested club, removing all ties from the Jets' organization.
That exact situation occurred in early-October when Winnipeg lost forward Jansen Harkins via Waivers to the Pittsburgh Penguins. It just so happened that Harkins scored the 12-round shootout winner for Pittsburgh on Wednesday night.
For Toninato, things haven't quite gone the way he would have hoped since signing his two-year, $1.55 million contract with Winnipeg this past April.
Having suited up quite regularly with the Jets in 2021-22, he was relegated to the minors for the majority of the 2022-23 season.
This year has been a bit more of an equal split between the two clubs for the 2012 fifth round pick. However, Toninato has yet to dress in a big-league game for the Jets, while suiting up in nine games for the Moose. In those contests, he has two goals and six points.