Arthur Kaliyev is heading to the Iowa Wild on a 25-game professional tryout, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported Thursday.
The 25-year-old winger is looking to get back into action after going unsigned through the summer. Friedman said Kaliyev “wants to get back playing” as he joins Iowa, the AHL club that serves as the top affiliate of the Minnesota Wild.
Kaliyev spent the 2025-26 season in the Ottawa Senators organization, mostly with Belleville in the AHL. In 70 games with the Belleville Senators, the 6-foot-2 right wing put up 40 goals and 68 points. He also skated in two NHL games with Ottawa and had one assist.
Iowa enters the move sitting fifth in the AHL’s Central Division with a 3-5-1-1 record through 10 games.
Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Kaliyev first reached the NHL with the Los Angeles Kings in the 2020-21 season after being taken in the second round, No. 33 overall, in the 2019 NHL Draft. Before that, he spent three seasons starring for the OHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs and helped them win a league championship in 2018.
His NHL run with Los Angeles stretched across parts of four seasons, and his best year came in 2022-23 when he collected 28 points - 13 goals and 15 assists - in 56 games. He started the 2024-25 season with the AHL’s Ontario Reign, did not appear in another game for the Kings, and was later claimed off waivers by the New York Rangers.
Kaliyev played 14 games for the Rangers to close out that season, recording three goals and an assist. New York chose not to keep him as a pending free agent, which led to his signing with Ottawa on July 2, 2025.
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