I'm only in 2026-27 (standard game) and don't recall too many shocking waivers until last night when Owen Power was waived. He's currently 23 years old with 3 ability/4 potential.
The team that waived him, Power would likely be the 3rd best Defenseman (2nd best LD). He has 5 years remaining on his contract (the one he signed in real life) at 8.35 mil/year. Contract quality says "bad".
They day he was waived, Buffalo traded 2 picks away (2 separate trades) for 2 wingers. One was 2.0/2.0 at $2,710,000 and the other 3.5/3.5 at $2,090,000.
So I'm guessing they had to waive him due to the salary cap but you would think they would have tried to trade him for something (or even better, waiving other players)..
But as it's been said many times, it's hard to get the AI to do what a human would do in simulation games...and I now have a D pairing of Power and Erik Karlsson
