Month: October 2021

The Utica Comets are the American Hockey League affiliate of the New Jersey Devils, and the parent club of the Adirondack Thunder of the ECHL. The slogan for the Utica Comets heading into this season is “a new era begins”, and this era is off to the best start anyone could have hoped for. It […]

After nearly pulling off another big comeback in their first road game of the season, the Fort Wayne Komets watched, as the Kalamazoo Wings handed the Komets their first loss of the young season with a 4-3 victory on Saturday night at the Wings Event Center. It was a big second period for the host […]

Savannah’s first pro-hockey team unveiled their name and logo on Wednesday afternoon, as ownership formally introduced to the community the Savannah Ghost Pirates. Almost a year ago to the date, the City of Savannah announced that the ECHL would be bringing to them their first pro hockey team. Savannah Mayor Van R. Johnson captured the […]

GLENS FALLS, NY – The Adirondack Thunder bounced back on Wednesday Night with a 6-2 victory over the Worcester Railers. They did so after losing their home opener on Saturday Night to the Newfoundland Growlers. “It was a typical cliche team win,” forward Alex Carrier said following the game’s conclusion. Head Coach Alex Loh mentioned […]

The opening game for the Maine Mariners could not have gone better on Friday night in Portland, ME. Behind a dominating offensive performance from Eduards Tralmaks, who netted a hat trick in the contest, Maine cruised to a 6-3 victory over the Worcester Railers. In addition to being the first ECHL game in nearly 600 […]

The Kansas City Mavericks secured a series split by winning their home opener against the Iowa Heartlanders. After taking a 7-4 shellacking in Coralville, Iowa on Friday, the Mavericks got down to business and beat the Deer 5-3 on home ice on Saturday. The two games between the Mavericks and Heartlanders had a little bit […]

On a night where the Fort Wayne Komets honoured the defending Kelly Cup Champion team, it took a two-goal comeback to open the season on the right foot with a 4-3 victory over the Wheeling Nailers. Like any celebratory night, the Komets struggled through a rough opening period, only to settle in and battle to […]

GLENS FALLS, NY — For the first time in 598 days, hockey was back in the Glens Falls area, as the Adirondack Thunder hosted their 2021 home opener before a sold out crowd of 4,999 spectators. With the boarders open, they welcomed the Newfoundland Growlers, but dropped the contest 3-2 at Cool Insuring Arena.  However, […]

When Adirondack hits the ice for their opening night contest on Friday evening, the team is going to look very different from the one that hit the ice during the 2019-20 season. “It’s great, for some of us, it was a 19-month offseason, so just getting back out there with the group of guys was […]

The 2020-21 season was a disappointing year for the Kansas City Mavericks. They finished the pandemic-strung campaign with a record of 31-31-10. The hockey club seemed disjointed and they ended up missing the playoffs. At the end of the year, the Mavericks parted ways with General Manager Brent Thiessen and gave the job to Tad […]

The Kansas City Mavericks defeated the Iowa Heartlanders 3-2 in preseason competition on Friday night. In what proved to be a high-intensity, hard-hitting affair, the Mavericks showed great physicality, strong goaltending, and sneaky offensive prowess. In a game that saw one full-blown fight, as well as several other hot-tempered moments, the Mavericks showed they will […]

As we all know, preseason meetings don’t count, and for the Adirondack Thunder, that is a well-known fact. When talking with some players and Head Coach Alex Loh, they spoke on how they’re using their two-game series against the Reading Royals as a good chance to grow and to evaluate players. Adding to that, it […]

This week, the Stockton Heat re-assigned three players to their ECHL affiliate, the Kansas City Mavericks. On Monday, October 11th, the Heat announced they had signed forward Mikael Robidoux to a two-way contract and had optioned him to Kansas City. Then on Thursday, October 14th, Stockton announced that they had sent down two more, assigning […]

Kind of like how Kyle Dubas loves to go after former Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds players, Stan Bowman loves to go after former Chicago Blackhawks, as he signed defenseman Erik Gustafsson to a one-year contract worth $800k. Gustafsson was on a professional tryout with the New York Islanders and was released from it on Monday. […]

The Adirondack Thunder were part of a three-way trade on Monday, as they acquired defenseman Jake Rychzek from the Reading Royals for future considerations. Reading made the decision to flip Ryczek after they acquired him from Wheeling in exchange for Jacob Pritchard. In executing it, this becomes the first trade Adirondack has been a part […]

When the Chicago Blackhawks acquired Dylan Strome almost three years ago (alongside Brendan Perlini) for Nick Schmaltz, the former third overall pick hit it off immediately with his longtime buddy in Alex DeBrincat. He put up an impressive 51 points across 58 contests. Despite missing some games in 2019-20, which resulted from injury, he still […]

As the 2021-22 regular season approaches, the Fort Wayne Komets announced the return of a familiar face to the organization, as they focus on finalizing their roster with training camp starting October 11. Defenseman Jamie Milam will make his fourth appearance as a Komet, bringing with him experience, having skated in 787 career contests between […]

Chicago continued loading up by acquiring back-to-back Stanley Cup champion Tyler Johnson from the Tampa Bay Lightning. They also got a 2023 second-round pick and traded Blackhawks legend Brent Seabrook, who will go on LTIR for the Lightning. While Johnson saw his ice time decrease in Tampa over the past few seasons, Head Coach Jon […]