A Few More Roster Moves

Most of you have probably already seen a couple of these items but here they are anyway.

The Bears reassigned 10 players to their respective teams on Monday.

They are:

Justin Bourne
Bryan Jurynec
Keith Johnson
Colin Nicholson
Michael Wirll
Alexandre Parent
Justin Sawyer
Bobby Goepfert
Christian Gaudet
Tyson Marsh


In other news.....Keith Aucoin was reassigned by Washington today. He will have to clear waivers, which isn't a guarantee for a player with his experience.

Jacub Cutta will NOT be a Washington Capital or Hershey Bear this year. He was invited to camp to try and make the Caps but he was cut today. He will be returning to Europe to play.

That leaves the Caps with 29 players on their current roster. They need to be at 23 to start the season.

Tyler Sloan, Simeon Varlamov, and Grant McNeill are more than likely headed to Hershey soon which would leave the Caps with 26 players. The last 3 cuts would include either Lepisto or Alzner, unless they both stay and someone like Erskine is sent down, and probably Chris Bourque and Quintin Laing. Laing would have to clear waivers however to return to Hershey.

The problem for Bourque and Lepisto is that even though they are probably better than some of the veterans on the Caps they won't make the roster. Because they can be called up and sent down without having to clear waivers. Which is vital because there will be injuries at some point for both teams.

I would expect to see Lepisto, Bourque, and Laing all in Hershey by the weekend. And I would also think that Aucoin would get picked up on waivers before Laing because Aucoin is a more accomplished offensive player.

But then again I am here writing a blog post.....not making decisions like that.