Ex-Rangers Goaltender Alexandar Georgiev's Time In The NHL Is Officially Over: Per Elliotte Friedman

Rangers former goaltender, Alexander Georgiev, had just recently secured a one-year, $825,000 contract with the Buffalo Sabres just last month in hopes to keeo is NHL dream alive. However, the Sabres organization quickly put that to an end.

On the same day as the NHL's opening-night, several reports surfaced that stated that the Sabres were placing Georgiev on waivers as they were interested in another goalie, Colton Ellis, for a while now.

Something Kevyn Adams clearly wasn't joking around as he quickly claimed Colton Ellis off waivers from the St. Louis Blues on October 6th, and placed Georgiev on waivers the next day.

Now that it is the next day, October 8th, NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman has confirmed that Georgiev's starting days in the NHL are over as no teams have claimed the 29-year old goaltender, resulting in him clearing and being sent down to the AHL.

The 29-year old goaltender, started his career with the New York Rangers as he played a total of 129 games for the organization over five season from 2017-18 to 2021-22. We he managed to tally a 58-48-11 record, .908 save percentage, 2.94 goals-against average, and even eight shutouts.

Unfortunately, his career in the NHL has since started to take a rough turn as just last season he posted a posted a 15-26-4 record, .875 save percentage, and a 3.71 goals-against average in 49 games split between the Colorado Avalanche and San Jose Sharks.

Resulting in Georgiev to be assigned to the Buffalo Sabres' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate team, the Rochester Americans.