OUELLETTE BACK FOR AN ENCORE 

Mike Ouellette, who rose ffrom obscurity last season to play a significant role in the success of the Pack’s efforts, has been resigned by the club. Ouellette was Hugh Jessiman‘s linemate at Dartmouth and had a magnificent season where he tallied 13 goals, 13 assists for 26 points in 69 games. He and Greg Moore were by far the team’s best at taking faceoffs. Ouellette would often be the man to take them in key spots in the defensive zone.

Howlings will post an interview we did with Ouellette later Tuesday evening.

Here is the official release.

FORWARD MIKE OUELLETTE RE-SIGNS WITH WOLF PACK
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Notched 11 Points in Last 16 Games of 2007-08

Hartford Wolf Pack general manager Jim Schoenfeld announced today that the Wolf Pack have re-signed forward Mike Ouellette to an American Hockey League contract.

The 2007-08 campaign was Ouellette’s first in the AHL, and the former Dartmouth Big Green contributed 13 goals and 13 assists for 26 points, and registered 16 penalty minutes and a +8 rating. Eleven of Ouellette’s 26 points, and eight of his 13 goals, came in the season’s last 16 games. In the postseason, Ouellette tallied a goal and two assists for three points. Prior to being recalled by the Wolf Pack on November 5th from the ECHL’s Charlotte Checkers, the 6-0, 199-pound Ouellette posted three goals and two assists for five points in six ECHL contests.

Ouellette, 26, spent his first full pro year, 2006-07, with Charlotte, notching 17 goals and 30 assists for 47 points and a team-best +15 in 69 outings. Prior to turning pro, the Kamloops, B.C. native played four seasons at Dartmouth College, totaling 58 goals and 80 assists for 138 points in 136 career games. He finished his Dartmouth tenure as the school’s all-time leader in career games-played and fifth in Big Green history in career points. In his Senior season, 2005-06, Ouellette earned recognition as a First-Team ECAC All-Star, ECAC Best Defensive Forward and All-Ivy Player of the Year, after notching a team-best 37 points (13 goals, 24 assists) and finishing tied for fifth in the ECAC in points and assists. Following the conclusion of his college career, Ouellette entered the pro ranks by posting one assist in three 2005-06 games with the AHL’s Springfield Falcons.

(Player photos courtesy of hartfordwolfpack.com)