Houston Aeros general manager Jim Mill announced on Wednesday that the team has signed defenseman Paul Mara to a standard player contract for the 2012-13 American Hockey League season. The 33-year-old Mara joins the Aeros after starting the season with Ontario of the ECHL. In 28 games, the Ridgewood, N.J., native set up 17 goals […]
Worcester Sharks general manager Wayne Thomas announced today that the team has signed forward Patrick Rissmiller and defenseman Michael Wilson to professional tryout agreements. Rissmiller, a 34-year-old Belmont, Mass., native and Holy Cross alum, has played 523 AHL games for Cleveland, Hartford, Grand Rapids, Chicago, Lake Erie and Rochester, where he accumulated 125 goals and […]
The Springfield Falcons, AHL affiliate of the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets, announced on Thursday that they have signed veteran defenseman Bryan Helmer to an AHL standard player contract for the remainder of the 2012-13 season. Helmer is third in the AHL’s 77-year history with 1,093 games played and is the league’s career leader among defensemen […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and CEO David Andrews announced today the selection of Jon Cooper of the Syracuse Crunch and Jeff Daniels of the Charlotte Checkers to join the coaching staffs for the 2013 Dunkin’ Donuts AHL All-Star Classic in Providence, R.I., on January 27-28. Cooper will join Binghamton Senators head coach […]
AHL Standings || Scores and Schedules || League Leaders SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … News and notes from the week ending Jan. 6: FAMILIAR FACES BACK AT SCOPE Strange. Surreal. Exciting. Weird. All words used by Syracuse Crunch players and coaches to describe their two-game trip to Norfolk last weekend. For most of them, including last year’s […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League today announced that Charlotte Checkers forward Brett Sutter has been suspended for one (1) game as a consequence of a boarding incident in a game vs. Norfolk on Jan. 6. Sutter will miss Charlotte’s game Friday (Jan. 11) at Oklahoma City.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Portland Pirates goaltender Mark Visentin has been selected as the CCM/AHL Player of the Week for the period ending Jan. 6, 2013. Visentin faced 89 shots over two games on the week and allowed only two goals, helping to keep the Pirates in first place […]
(ctwhale.com) — After watching Cameron Talbot pick up his first shutout of the season in Hartford on Friday, Jason Missiaen decided he wanted one too. Supported by two goals from Kyle Jean, the Connecticut Whale skated to a 2-0 victory over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Sunday afternoon, despite being outshot by a margin of 35-18. […]
3 1 (binghamtonsenators.com) -– The Binghamton Senators extended their winning streak to five games as they beat the Hershey Bears, 3-1, at Giant Center in Hershey, Pa., on Saturday night. It was the third of eight meetings between the two teams this season. The game remained scoreless until 5:17 of the second frame, when the […]
Rockford IceHogs captain Martin St. Pierre became the 83rd player in American Hockey League history with 500 career points, reaching the milestone with a first-period assist in the IceHogs’ 5-2 loss to the Toronto Marlies on Saturday afternoon. A 29-year-old native of Embrun, Ont., St. Pierre has averaged better than a point per game over […]
