Coyotes buy out Alex Galchenyuk's contract

In the final minutes, the Coyotes announced that they were placing Alex Galchenyuk on the unconditional ballot in order to buy out his contract.

The CH veteran was an uncompensated free agent on July 1, and had agreed with the Arizona organization on the terms of a one-year contract that would have paid him 775,000 for the 2023-2024 season.

The club won’t comment on the matter at this time, which makes it all the more bizarre.

Very weird, indeed.

The Arizona Coyotes have placed forward Alex Galchenyuk on unconditional waivers for purposes of terminating his contract. The Club will have no further comment at this time.

– Arizona Coyotes PR (@AZCoyotesPR) July 13, 2023

More details to come…