37 players on waivers, including 4 first-round picks!

On Wednesday, a total of 37 players were placed on waivers by their respective team. The Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, Detroit Red Wings, Florida Panthers, Los Angeles Kings, Nashville Predators, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, San Jose Sharks, Tampa Bay Lightning , Utah Mammoth, Washington Capitals and Winnipeg Jets put 37 players on NHL waivers.

The Lightning put winger Jakob Pelletier on the wire, he who was the Calgary Flames’ first round pick in 2019.

Pelletier struggled under former head coach Darryl Sutter in Calgary, and was finally traded with Andrei Kuzmenko , round 2 pick in the 2025 draft ( Shane Vansaghi ) and round 7 pick in the 2028 draft to Philadelphia Flyers in the monster transaction for Joel Farabee and Morgan Frost.

He went on to sign as a free agent this past summer with the Lightning.

There is also Austin Watson, who has been placed on the wire by the Red Wings, who is a former first round in 2010. He was the 18th overall pick by the Predators. He signed as a free agent in Detroit in October of last year.

Nolan Foote, on waivers today by the Panthers, is a first round pick, 27th overall in 2019 by Tampa Bay. He signed with the Cats just a few months ago.

The Kings placed Logan Brown on the wire as well after signing him to a deal this past July. He was a first round pick, 11th overall by Ottawa back in 2016.

Here’s that list, according to PuckPedia:

* Boston: Billy Sweezey

* Colorado: Wyatt Aamodt, Danil Gushchin

* Detroit: Sheldon Dries, William Lagesson, John Leonard, Ian Mitchell, Dominik Shine, Austin Watson

* Florida: Mackenzie Entwistle, Nolan Foote, Wilmer Skoog

* Los Angeles: Samuel Bolduc, Logan Brown, Martin Chromiak, Pheonix Copley, Glenn Gawdin, Cole Guttman, Joe Hicketts, Andre Lee, Akil Thomas, Taylor Ward

* Nashville: Andreas Englund

* NY Rangers: Casey Fitzgerald

* Philadelphia: Lane Pederson

* San Jose: Patrick Giles

* Tampa Bay: Nicholas Abruzzese, Boris Katchouk, Jakob Pelletier

* Utah: Jaxson Stauber

* Washington: Louie Belpedio, Graeme Clarke, Henrik Rybinski, Bogdan Trineyev

* Winnipeg: Jaret Anderson-Dolan, Kale Clague, Samuel Fagemo

* For each player, the other 31 NHL teams can submit a claim for them before 2 p.m. ET on Thursday.

There is also defenseman Christian Jaros whom the Columbus Blue Jackets placed on unconditional waivers for the purpose of mutual contract termination. He is not eligible for the usual waivers and for a team to claim him.