It was a busy day for the first day of Free Agency. One move on the day saw goalie Ivan Fedotov sign with Spartak Moskva in the KHL. He appeared in 47 games for the Cleveland Monsters last season, going 23-16-9 with a 2.87 goals-against average, an .887 save percentage, and two shutouts.
The Columbus Blue Jackets had been searching all summer for a third goaltender to be behind Elvis Merzlikins and Jet Greaves. Just before the start of training camp, GM Don Waddell found his man.
The second day of the waiver wire was just as busy as the first, as eight players have been placed on waivers on Friday for the purpose of being reassigned to the AHL.
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On the second day of waivers being open, teams are continuing to make cuts from their training camp rosters. On Sept. 26, 2025, eight players were placed on waivers.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
Is it more valuable to have one dominant goaltender or two very good ones? It depends on the time of year. Come the postseason, there’s a correlation between trusting one bellcow starter and winning the Stanley Cup.
0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 CBJ GOALS: Wood (PP) (P2, 8:37) Even a 2-1 exhibition loss can yield some positives. That was the final in Buffalo on Tuesday night for
0 1 0 1 0 2 2 4 CBJ GOALS: Gaunce (P2, 2:41) Del Bel Belluz (P2, 15:42) Voronkov (P3, 17:41) Olivier (EN) (P3, 19:37) Dmitri Voronkov and Luca Del Bel Belluz combined for five points as the Columbus Blue Jackets kicked off their preseason with a 4-1 win over the St.
It is never quiet in Philadelphia when it comes to goaltending. The Flyers seem to be in a perpetual state of searching for it, but on Sunday GM Daniel
The Columbus Blue Jackets addressed one of their major concerns heading into the 2025-26 campaign. The Jackets completed a trade with the Philadelphia Flyers for goaltender Ivan Fedotov.
Ivan Fedotov’s road to the NHL spanned nearly 10 years and featured a little bit of everything, from politics and contracts to even military service. On Sunday, the 28-year-old goaltender was traded by the Philadelphia Flyers to the Columbus Blue Jackets, the latest turn in a career that has been anything but straightforward.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
Shortly before training camps opened, a sneaky little trade was announced. The Columbus Blue Jackets acquired goaltender Ivan Fedotov from the Philadelphia Flyers for a sixth-round draft pick.
In a move that shocked absolutely no one paying attention, the Philadelphia Flyers have finally parted ways with goaltender Ivan Fedotov. The towering 6-foot-7 netminder is heading to the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for a 2026 sixth-round draft pick.
The Columbus Blue Jackets acquired goaltender Ivan Fedotov from the Philadelphia Flyers for a 2026 sixth-round draft pick. The 6-foot-7 Russian goaltender struggled in his first NHL season.
The Philadelphia Flyers have dealt goaltender Ivan Fedotov to the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for a 2026 sixth-round draft pick. The move involves no salary retention, making it a straightforward cap transaction for Philadelphia.
Just a few weeks ago, Philadelphia Flyers goalie Ivan Fedotov seemed like a lost cause. Despite all the promise he carried from the KHL, Fedotov was 0-4-1 in his first six NHL games and had a 5.18 GAA and .817 save percentage.
When the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 in a shootout on Thursday night, it was a big win for just about everybody on the team.
In his two starts for the Philadelphia Flyers this season, backup goalie Ivan Fedotov has allowed 10 goals on just 55 shots against. After getting yanked in Thursday night’s 6-4 loss to the Seattle Kraken, Fedotov owns a career record of 0-3-1 and is not showing any signs of hope for the future just yet.
After a long wait and a great deal of anticipation, Philadelphia Flyers goalie prospect Alexei Kolosov finally returned to North America and joined the organization at the very end of training camp.
The International Ice Hockey Federation has levied sanctions against the goaltender, KHL club CSKA Moskva and the Russian Ice Hockey Federation.
It is pretty rare for a player to make his season debut in the NHL with just a handful of games left to play. What’s even rarer is a player hitting the ice for the first time nearly a decade after being drafted.
It might not have ended the way the team wanted, but there was plenty of optimism coming out of the Philadelphia Flyers’ 4-3 loss to the New York Islanders on Monday night.
Ivan Fedotov made his NHL debut on Monday night, replacing Samuel Ersson in goal for the Philadelphia Flyers in the second period of their game against the New York Islanders.
Fedotov is an excellent prospect, and if he gets an opportunity, he could be a difference-maker for a surprising Flyers team that was supposed to be one of the worst in the NHL when the season began.
Fedotov’s situation is just the latest chapter in the strained relationship between the United States and Russia due to a volatile political climate after the latter declared war on the Ukraine last year.
Flyers goaltending prospect Ivan Fedotov has reportedly been sent to a remote base in Northern Russia after being picked up by Russian law enforcement for attempting to evade military service.
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