Forwards Lyme Arnsby, Josh Davies and defensemen Marek Alscher, Evan Noss and Brayden Asche were also counted out along with Wilman in the training camp roster of 50 players.
Vilmanis also played in one test match for the Panthers, where he spent ten minutes and 35 seconds on the field. He didn’t make any shots on goal, used one power play, blocked one shot by the home team and ended the match with a negative efficiency coefficient of -1.
The Florida team of Latvian hockey players was selected in the fifth round of the draft this summer with the overall number 157.
Vilmanis will play for Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) this season, but before that he was under the wing of the Swedish club Luleo and scored 18 goals and 14 assists in 45 matches in the U-20 team last season.
