The New York Islanders, parent club of the AHL’s Bridgeport Sound Tigers, have signed right wing Darryl Bootland to a one-year contract. Bootland, 25, spent the last five seasons in the Detroit Red Wings organziation, totaling 72 goals and 68 assists for 140 points, along with 1,164 penalty minutes, in 293 AHL games with Grand […]
The Washington Capitals, parent club of the AHL’s Hershey Bears, have signed free-agent center Kyle Wilson and free-agent defenseman Jame Pollock to contracts. Wilson, 22, tallied 24 goals and 30 assists for 54 points in 54 games with the Bears as a rookie in 2006-07, and added seven goals and 16 points in 19 postseason […]
The Dallas Stars, parent club of the AHL’s Iowa Stars, have agreed to terms with forward Toby Petersen and defenseman Trevor Byrne on one-year, two-way contracts for 2007-08. Petersen, 28, spent the majority of the 2006-07 season in the NHL with the Edmonton Oilers, recording six goals and nine assists for 15 points in 64 […]
The Tampa Bay Lightning, parent club of the AHL’s Norfolk Admirals, have signed defenseman Dan Jancevski to a one-year, two-way contract. Jancevski, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound native of Windsor, Ont., was an alternate captain for the 2007 Calder Cup champion Hamilton Bulldogs. He played in all 80 regular-season games for Bulldogs in 2006-07 and recorded seven […]
The Binghamton Senators announced today that they have signed left wing Denis Hamel to a three-year American Hockey League contract. Hamel, 30, returns to the city where he enjoyed the most prolific three-year span in his professional career. Between 2003 and 2006, Hamel amassed Binghamton Senators franchise records in goals (124) and points (236) while […]
The Ottawa Senators have named five-time Calder Cup champion John Paddock as the sixth head coach in franchise history. Paddock, 53, has been in the Senators organization for the last five seasons. He joined the Senators in July 2002 as head coach of the club’s AHL affiliate in Binghamton. Paddock was then named assistant coach […]
The Nashville Predators, parent club of the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals, announced on Thursday that they have signed forward Shane Willis and goaltender Dan Ellis to one-year contracts, and also re-signed defenseman Nolan Yonkman to a one-year contract. Willis, 30, posted 20 goals and 23 assists for 43 points in 43 AHL games with Albany in […]
The Montreal Canadiens, parent club of the AHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs, have signed defensemen Jamie Rivers and Marvin Degon to one-year contracts. Degon, 24, completed his first professional season in 2006-07 with the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack. He led the team’s defensemen in scoring with 34 points (8g, 26a) in 71 games. Degon also appeared in […]
The Edmonton Oilers, parent club of the AHL’s Springfield Falcons, have acquired defenseman Allan Rourke and a 2008 third-round draft pick to from the New York Islanders in exchange for a second-round pick in 2008. Rourke, 27, served as Bridgeport’s alternate captain each of the last two seasons. In 2006-07, he recorded five goals and […]
by James Murphy, NHL.com This coming Saturday, a group of current NHLers and AHLers, as well as some NHL alumni, will converge on Burnaby, British Columbia, to get together for some mid-summer shinny. Andrew Ladd, Kevin Bieksa, Ryan Hollweg, Gilbert Brule, Ben Walter and his father Ryan, who won the Stanley Cup with Montreal in […]
