In a move that could signal that his career with the Ottawa Senators is over, Andrew Hammond was waived by the team before today’s noon deadline to make room for the returning Craig Anderson.
If Hammond goes unclaimed, he’ll be returned to Binghamton where he’ll congest their goaltending picture and take playing time away from prospects who the Senators need to evaluate and make decisions on in Chris Driedger and Matt O’Connor. (Read: both goalies are restricted free agents this summer.)
It is not the situation anyone envisioned when the Senators inked Hammond to a three-year contract extension after Hammond improbably led the Senators on their storybook run to the playoffs in 2015, but here we are.