2014-2015 AHL contracts

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Rochester Americans RW Johnny McGuire has signed a 1-year contract with the Indy Fuel (ECHL).

 

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Adirondack Flames sign RD Nolan Yonkman to a 1-year AHL contract.

http://adirondackflames.com/news/?article_id=57

Yonkman, 33, attended training camp with the Calgary Flames before he was released on Oct. 1. The Punnichy, SASK native is a veteran of 76 NHL and 665 AHL contests, spread over nine different teams. Yonkman has recorded 10 career NHL points (1-9-10) and 86 career AHL points (18-68-86). The 6’6†defenseman spent last season in the Anaheim Ducks organization, split between the Ducks and the Norfolk Admirals.

 

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Hamilton Bulldogs sign C Sahir Gill and G Frank Palazzese to 1-year (two-way) AHL\ECHL contracts.

http://www.hamiltonbulldogs.com/pressbox/news/?article_id=865

Gill spent the 2013-14 season – his first as a professional – with the ECHL’s Wheeling Nailers. In 67 regular season games with Wheeling, the 22-year-old recorded 54 points (13 goals, 41 assists) and 26 penalty minutes. Before turning pro, the 5-10, 178-pound forward spent three seasons (2010 to 2013) with the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Boston University Terriers. In 117 career games with Boston University, the Terrace, B.C. native recorded 78 points (28 goals, 50 assists) and 55 penalty minutes.

Palazzese spent the 2013-14 season with the Ontario Hockey League’s Sudbury Wolves. In 60 regular season games with Sudbury, the 21-year-old posted a record of 27-23-9 with a 2.97 goals-against average, .916 save percentage and five shutouts. In 175 career OHL regular season games with the Wolves, Kitchener Rangers and Kingston Frontenacs from 2009 to 2014, the 6-1, 160-pound goaltender had a record of 71-69-26 with a 3.13 goals-against average, .914 save percentage and seven shutouts.

- See more at: http://www.hamiltonbulldogs.com/pressbox/news/?article_id=865#sthash.NjQJzIwm.dpuf

 

[Lunatik]

ADK Flames signed Yonkman

http://www.adirondackflames.com/news/?article_id=57

Glens Falls, NY – The Adirondack Flames announced today that they have signed defenseman Nolan Yonkman to an AHL contract.

 

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Springfield Falcons LW\RW Peter Sakaris has signed a 1-year contract with the Evansville IceMen (ECHL).

 

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Worcester Sharks RD Collin Bowman has signed a 1-year contract with the Colorado Eagles (ECHL).

 

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Utica Comets LD Sacha Guimond has signed a 1-year contract with the Kalamazoo Wings (ECHL).

 

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Toronto Marlies LW\C Mike Duco has signed a 1-year contract with the Indy Fuel (ECHL).

 

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Rochester Americans LD Alex Lepkowski has signed a tryout contract with the Greenville Road Warriors (ECHL).

 

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Also, this happened almost a month ago, but appears to have been missed. Rochester Americans C\LW Alex Hutchings has signed a 1-year contract with ETC Crimmitschau (Germany-2).

 

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Abbotsford Heat C Corey Locke has signed a 1-year contract with Nurnberg Ice Tigers (Germany).

 

[Booba]

Hamilton Bulldogs sign C Sahir Gill and G Frank Palazzese to 1-year (two-way) AHL\ECHL contracts.

http://www.hamiltonbulldogs.com/pressbox/news/?article_id=865

Actually the contract that Gill signed is a PTO

Looks like RW Joe Basaraba is signed to an AHL contract with the San Antonio Rampage (AHL).

http://www.echl.com/echl-transactions-oct-6-p193990

There are conflicting reports on this one! According to the Rampage's website, he was released along with the other players on tryouts. I'll wait for another confirmation before adding him to the list!
http://www.sarampage.com/team/news/index.html?article_id=2786

 

[Booba]

Other players who seem to have signed AHL contracts :

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he Springfield Falcons have reassigned Defenseman Issac Macleod and Goaltender Scott Munroe to ECHL affiliate Kalamazoo Wings.

http://www.falconsahl.com/news/news/?article_id=360

Actually there is an unoffical confirmation for Munroe :

Goaltender Scott Munroe, in camp as the fifth goaltender, was released from his player-tryout agreement.
Munroe, who is signed to an AHL/ECHL contract, is expected to join training camp with the Springfield Falcons.

http://bluejacketsxtra.dispatch.com...s/2014/09/jackets-trim-three-from-roster.html

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The Texas Stars, American Hockey League affiliate of the NHL’s Dallas Stars, announced today they have assigned forwards Ludwig Karlsson, Jesse Root, and defensemen Mike Dalhuisen to their ECHL affiliate, the Idaho Steelheads.

Mike Dalhuisen, Jesse Root and Ludwig Karlsson have been assigned to the ECHL's Idaho Steelheads this afternoon. Dalhuisen and Root both signed AHL deals before heading down.

http://www.100degreehockey.com/2014/10/karlsson-root-and-dalhuisen-assigned-to.html

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The Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday reassigned forward Marek Tvrdon and goaltender Jared Coreau from the Grand Rapids Griffins to the ECHL’s Toledo Walleye. In addition, the Griffins assigned forwards Tyler Barnes and Kyle Bonis and defenseman Scott Czarnowczan to Toledo

 

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Just tossing some numbers out here, do with this information as you please.

I started to notice an influx in teams signing AHL contracts this year in compared to years past. So I started to to some math.

Upon the completion of the 2013-14 season, there were a total of 225 recorded AHL contracts (these numbers direct from Booba's 2013-14 AHL contracts thread).

Mere days from puckdrop on the 2014-15 season, and there are already 190 AHL contracts signed. A difference of 35. Which seems like a pretty drastic incline. I reckon those 35 will be surpassed before season's end.

Sorry, I find this stuff fascinating haha

 

[caley]

per Dave Molinari

Dave Molinari ‏@MolinariPG 17m17 minutes ago
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton signs forward Ty Murovich of Mt. Lebanon to an AHL contract, assigns him to Wheeling of the ECHL.

 

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per News1130 of Vancouver

News1130 Sports ‏@News1130Sports 3m3 minutes ago
.@UticaComets signed Curtis Valk to an #AHL free agent contact before assigning him to the #ECHL

 

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Iowa Wild sign training camp invite LW Olivier Archambault to a 1-year two-way AHL\ECHL contract and assign him to the Alaska Aces (ECHL).

http://www.iowawild.com/fancentral/releases/?article_id=444

Archambault earned a contract by scoring four goals and totaling five points in two preseason games for Iowa. He recently wrapped up a five-year QMJHL career, which saw him score 100 goals and totaling 231 points in 270 games. He was selected by the Montreal Canadiens in the fourth round (#108 overall) of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.

 

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Would appear Rochester Americans have signed RD Nick Tuzzolino to a 1-year AHL contract.

https://twitter.com/AmerksHockey/status/520269431952670720

Rochester Americans
‏@AmerksHockey
Roster Moves: The #Amerks have assigned F Brayden Irwin, F Allan McPherson and D Nick Tuzzolino to Elmira (ECHL).

 

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The inevitable appears to have also taken place and the Bridgeport Sound Tigers have signed C Lukas Sutter to a 1-year AHL contract.

https://twitter.com/CTVDarrell/status/520253022740295680

Darrell Romuld (CTV)
‏@CTVDarrell
Former @Rebelshockey & @BladesHockey F Lukas Sutter has signed an AHL deal with Bridgeport, NY Islanders affiliate.

 

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Shades of Kyle Hope and the Springfield Falcons a few weeks back, Lake Erie Monsters C Marcus Power has opted to attend the University of Prince Edward Island (AUAA).

http://news.upei.ca/media/2014/10/0...anthers-add-high-scoring-forward-marcus-power

 

[Booba]

From the training camp invites thread :

Training camp recap

Signed AHL contract (AHL SPC) :
Adirondack : Curtis Gedig Assigned to Colorado, ECHL)
Binghamton : Ty Wishart (Assigned to Evansville, ECHL)
Bridgeport : Lukas Sutter
Chicago : Brent Sopel
Grand Rapids : Scott Czarnowczan (Assigned to Toledo, ECHL),
Iowa : Olivier Archambault (Assigned to Alaska, ECHL),
Lake Erie : C.J. Severyn (Assigned to Fort Wayne, ECHL)
Providence : Cory Kane, Ben Youds
Rochester : Nick Tuzzolino (Assigned to Elmira, ECHL)
Springfield : Brett Ponich, Scott Munroe (Assigned to Kalamazoo, ECHL), Isaac MacLeod (Assigned to Kalamazoo, ECHL)
Texas : Mike Dalhuisen (Assigned to Idaho, ECHL)
Toronto : Stefan Della Rovere (Assigned to Orlando, ECHL), Brendan Mikkelson , Brady Vail and Blake Kessel
Utica : Curtis Valk (Assigned to Kalamazoo, ECHL)
Wilkes-Barres : Tyler Murovich (Assigned to Wheeling, ECHL)

Signed a PTO contract :
Chicago : Nathan Longpre and Matt Register
Hamilton : Sahir Gill
Iowa : Jake Parenteau and Jay Gregoire
Providence : Andrew Cherniwchan
Rochester : Akim Aliu
St. John's : Brandon MacLean and Ben Walker
Uitca : *Ryan Jones

*Jones did not participate to Utica's camp

Made the opening-night roster (Either signed to an AHL SPC or a PTO) :
Adirondack : Trevor Gillies and Dustin Stevenson
Albany : Joe Faust and Rod Pelley
Binghamton : Brad Mills
Bridgeport : Justin Courtnall and Colton Gillies
Chicago : Gergo Nagy
Grand Rapids : Chris Bruton
Lake Erie : Kenny Ryan and Reid Petryk
Manchester : Josh Gratton
Norfolk : Brendan Bell
Portland : Matt Kassian
San Antonio Byron Froese
Springfield : Corey Cowick and Domenic Monardo
Utica : Travis Ehrhardt, Carter Bancks and Wacey Hamilton
Worcester : Derek Deblois

Others news
-Jared Nighitngale (Rockford) has signed with Toledo (ECHL)
-Mike Cornell (Bridgeport) has signed with Florida (ECHL)
-Riley Gill (Hershey) has signed with Allen (ECHL)

 

[Lunatik]

Trevor Gillies has an AHL contract with the Flames. During the game friday night the Flames play by play guy stated that all players on tryout agreements had been cut. Since Gillies was in the lineup, I would suspect that he has an AHL deal.

 

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C.J. Stretch is listed in the first post as being in Worcester, I think that should be Bridgeport.

Worcester correct list should be:

Kyle Bigos
Aaron Dell
Brendan Ellis
Nick Jones
Jeremy Langlois
Matt Taormina
Evan Trupp
Gus Young

http://www.telegram.com/article/20141011/NEWS/310119630/1009/SPORTS

 

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Sounds like St. John's IceCaps training camp invitee RD Zach Bell has been signed to an AHL deal.

http://www.ontarioreign.com/news/teamnews/?article_id=2293

The Ontario Reign, four-time Pacific Division Champions and proud affiliate of the NHL’s 2014 Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings and Winnipeg Jets, have announced that rookie defenseman Zach Bell has been assigned to the club from the St. John's IceCaps of the American Hockey League.

 

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Ditto for Manchester Monarchs training camp invitees C Tristan King and RW Geoff Walker

http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=4882226

The Manchester Monarchs, primary affiliate of the Los Angeles Kings, will begin the season with 14 forwards, eight defensemen and two goalies. Forwards Tristan King, Maxim Kitsyn, Geoff Walker and defenseman Alex Roach have been assigned to the ECHL's Ontario Reign.