The Detroit Red Wings have signed right wing Evgeny Svechnikov to a one-year contract extension. Svechnikov, 23, returned to the ice last October after missing the entire 2018-19 season due to a knee injury. He appeared in 51 games with the AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins in 2019-10, totaling 11 goals and 14 assists for 25
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Back when the Flyers selected Calgary Hitmen defenseman Travis Sanheim in the first round of the 2014 NHL Draft, the organization’s former player personnel director (and later assistant general manager) Chris Pryor, said, “It’s fair to say that Travis has the upside” of a 4S NHL prospect: skill, size, speed,and smarts. Philippe Myers inexplicably fell
The American Hockey is saddened to learn of the passing of former AHL defenseman Adam Comrie. He was 30. Awful news of Adam Comrie’s passing. We played together with @SyracuseCrunch and kept in touch ever since. Hockey never defined him despite being a very talented player. I admired that about Adam. 30 years young. Too
The Boston Bruins have signed forward Robert Lantosi to a one-year entry-level contract for 2020-21. Lantosi made his North American debut in 2019-20 and spent the year on an AHL contract with the Providence Bruins, notching 11 goals and 20 assists for 31 points in 50 games. The 24-year-old Lantosi played the two previous seasons
The Hershey Bears have announced that they have re-signed forward Matt Moulson to an American Hockey League contract for the 2020-21 season. Moulson, 36, will enter his 15th professional season having skated in 1,017 pro games. He scored a team-leading 22 goals and totaled 41 points in 62 games for the Bears in 2019-20, and
Anthony Keeper initially kept it to himself when his son, Brady, told him Monday that he’d would be in the lineup for the Florida Panthers against the New York Islanders in Game 2 of their Stanley Cup Qualifier series. But as word of Keeper making his NHL postseason debut spread through Cross Lake, the Pimicikamak
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and CEO Scott Howson announced today that due to the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis and the adjustment of the 2020-21 season calendar, the 2021 AHL All-Star Classic will not be held. The Laval Rocket, who had been selected to host the event, will instead host the 2022
by Don Scott Hershey native Bob Goodman did his residency at Hershey Medical Center and is now an anesthesiologist at Harrisburg Hospital. That would be his day job, but for the last three decades he has also been an American Hockey League linesman. Goodman’s pre-linesman career started when he played for the Hershey Jr. Bears
The only goal to get past Carter Hart on Sunday was an unfortunate wraparound by Boston’s Chris Wagner, which banged off the skate of Robert Hagg. The Bruins had sliced the Flyers lead to 2-1 and there was an opportunity for Boston to seize momentum. Related stories But quicker than you can say, “hey, put
Mark Falkner The Detroit News Published 5:53 AM EDT Aug 2, 2020 It doesn’t come as a surprise to former American Hockey League commissioner Dave Andrews that the Detroit Red Wings have won the most combined National Hockey League and AHL championships since owner Mike Ilitch purchased the team in 1982. Andrews, 71, retired in July
The Buffalo Sabres announced today that the team has signed forward Brett Murray to a two-year, entry-level contract. Murray, 22, spent the 2019-20 season with the AHL’s Rochester Americans, recording nine goals and 15 assists for 24 points in 55 games. He ranked second on the team in rookie scoring. A native of Bolton, Ont.,
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and CEO Scott Howson has announced that the AHL Board of Governors has selected the 2019-20 recipients of several awards for excellence and service. Chairman of the Board of Governors David Andrews, who completed a 26-year tenure as President and CEO of the American Hockey League in 2019-20,
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and CEO Scott Howson has announced a revised start date for the 2020-21 AHL season, as approved by the league’s Board of Governors during its 2020 Annual Meeting held today via conference call. At the recommendation of the AHL’s Return to Play Task Force, the Board of Governors
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that $4.8 million was raised over the course of the 2019-20 season by the AHL and its 31 member clubs for donation to various charitable causes and relief funds across North America. Among the many recipients of the AHL’s charity endeavors this season were: • Ace
The Nashville Predators have re-signed forward Anthony Richard to a one-year, two-way contract for the 2020-21 season. Richard, 23, tallied 14 goals and nine assists for 23 points in 60 games with the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals in 2019-20, his fourth pro season. He scored three power-play goals and one shorthanded marker. Richard also appeared in
Dave Kallmann Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 8:00 AM EDT Jul 27, 2020 Connor Ingram has not played a hockey game since March 8, and for a guy who stops pucks for a living, that’s a long time. It’ll probably be months before he does again. But while that isn’t optimal for development for the 23-year-old
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Larry Figurski, sports anchor and reporter for WOOD TV8 and color commentator for Grand Rapids Griffins games on Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM, has been selected as the recipient of the James H. Ellery Memorial Award for the 2019-20 season. The James H. Ellery
The Penguins were permitted to bring a maximum of 31 players to Toronto (click here for the full roster). And in a tribute to the organization’s development process, 19 of those players have all spent time in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League. They are forwards Anthony Angello, Zach Aston-Reese, Teddy Blueger, Jake Guentzel, Adam