Elsewhere, Robby Fabbri of the St. Louis Blues, Luke Kunin of the Florida Panthers and Guillaume Brisebois of the Vancouver Canucks were also waived by their respective teams.
But it is Mangiapane that is the biggest eye-opener on the list.
The winger signed a two-year, $7.2 million deal with the Oilers on July 1 with the goal of providing offensive depth behind the likes of Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
It hasn’t worked out. Mangiapane has just seven goals and seven assists in 52 games on the season along with a career-worst plus/minus of -19 while enduring multiple healthy scratches. The Toronto native is in his ninth NHL season, with three prior 20-goal campaigns to his name.
The five-foot-10, 183-pound Mangiapane…