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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League introduced at the moment that Brett Sutter of the Ontario Reign is the 2018-19 winner of the Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award because the AHL participant who finest exemplifies the qualities of sportsmanship, dedication and dedication to hockey.The award is voted on by coaches, gamers and members of the media in every of the league’s 31 cities.In his second season as captain of the Reign and fifth general sporting the “C” for his AHL mem...

Photograph: Bakersfield CalifornianSPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League introduced at present that Mike Griffith, sports activities reporter for the Bakersfield Californian, has been chosen because the recipient of the James H. Ellery Memorial Award for the 2018-19 season.The James H. Ellery Memorial Award is offered yearly in recognition of excellent media protection of the American Hockey League. It was first offered in 1964-65 and honors the late Jim Ellery, who served t...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League introduced right this moment that Bridgeport Sound Tigers ahead Kieffer Bellows, Utica Comets defenseman Brogan Rafferty and Chicago Wolves goaltender Oscar Dansk have been chosen because the league’s award winners for December.Bellows, the CCM/AHL Participant of the Month, scored 10 objectives in 11 video games for Bridgeport final month, together with the primary hat trick of his professional profession.Bellows started the month by sc...

American Hockey League groups have reached the midpoint of the schedule.Here’s a take a look at midseason award winners within the prime developmental league of the NHL: Most Priceless PlayerF Reid Boucher — Utica (Vancouver Canucks)Boucher (5-foot-10, 195 kilos) has but to stay within the NHL full-time at 26 years previous, however he continues to dominate opposing AHL defenses.The New Jersey Devils took him within the fourth spherical (No. 99) of the 2011 NHL Draft, and he has performed 1...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League introduced immediately that Utica Comets ahead Reid Boucher, Chicago Wolves ahead Lucas Elvenes and Hartford Wolf Pack goaltender Igor Shesterkin have been chosen because the league’s award winners for October.Boucher, the CCM/AHL Participant of the Month, scored 10 objectives and added three assists for 13 factors in eight video games to assist lead the Comets to an ideal Eight-Zero-Zero-Zero begin to the 2019-20 season.Boucher started...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League has chosen Paul Branecky, vice chairman of promoting and communications for the Charlotte Checkers, because the winner of the league’s Ken McKenzie Award for the 2018-19 season.Recognizing the essential position performed by staff administration in constructing a profitable franchise, the Ken McKenzie Award is introduced yearly to an AHL staff govt who most efficiently promotes his or her personal membership.Branecky joined the Checker...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and CEO David Andrews has introduced the winners of the league’s annual Workforce Enterprise Companies awards, recognizing excellent achievements in a wide range of classes together with ticket gross sales, group service and fan expertise.These awards have been offered Thursday night at a gala reception throughout the Board of Governors’ Annual Assembly at Hilton Head Island, S.C.As a part of its Workforce Enterprise Companies p...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League introduced at the moment that Manitoba Moose ahead Jansen Harkins, Milwaukee Admirals ahead Tommy Novak and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins goaltender Casey DeSmith have been chosen because the league’s award winners for November.Harkins, the CCM/AHL Participant of the Month, totaled 24 factors in 15 video games for Manitoba final month, registering 4 objectives and 20 assists and discovering the scoresheet in all however one contest bec...

“Huge open” sometimes describes NHL award races presently of yr. A recency bias in end-of-season voting typically results in a late-surging participant taking dwelling main – as Taylor Corridor did the 2017-18 Hart Trophy after an epic second-half scoring streak helped hoist his workforce into the playoffs. So the mid-season trophy favorites don’t at all times find yourself the winners. The 2019-20 awards race won’t observe that sample, nonetheless. The favorites shall be powe...

How do you permit Nathan MacKinnon, of all folks, that open? It was the other of the meme-worthy photograph circulating this week of 5 skaters converging on Connor McDavid. MacKinnon, arguably McDavid’s hardest competitors within the 2019-20 Hart Trophy race, discovered himself chillin’ by his lonesome within the left circle in entrance of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ web on a Colorado Avalanche energy play throughout Wednesday’s recreation. He obtained a go from proper winger Mikko ...