Florida Panthers prospects and reserves will be on the ice today in Europe.
Action from the 2023-24 IIHF Champions Hockey League contines.
Aleksi Heponiemi and EHC Biel-Bienne will face HC TWK Innsbruck; Kasper Puutio and Pelicans will face off against Dragons de Rouen; and Jakub Kos and Ilves will take on HC Bozen-Bolzano.
Reserve Yegor Korshkov should in the lineup as Amur Khabarovsk opens its KHL schedule versus HC Vityaz.
2023 seventh-rounder Stepan Zvyagin could see action in Dinamo Minsk’s KHL season-opener against HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk.
Yesterday, Aleksi Saarela saw second line duty in SCL Tigers 3-2 win over SC Bern in a preseason game from the Swiss National League.
NHL News
The Seattle Kraken signed Mitch Reinke to a one-year, two-way contract worth $775,000 at the NHL level. The 27-year-old defensman spent appeared in 52 AHL games with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins last season.
PHWL News
The Minnesota franchise won the draft lottery on Friday and will select first in the PWHL player draft on September 15.
They will be followed by Toronto, Boston, New York, Ottawa and Montreal.
The draft will be a snake-draft format, meaning Minnesota will hold the first pick in the first round and the last pick in the second round.
According to general manager Michael Hirshfeld, the Ottawa franchise will play at TD Place Arena and share the facility with its current tenant, the Ottawa 67’s of the OHL.