BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings
HARTFORD, CT – Monday may have been an off day in terms of what goes on ON the ice, but it was a big day for the Hartford Wolf Pack off of it.
In the last year of his contract, the Rangers announced that Wolf Pack captain Jonny Brodzinski had been re-signed for two more years. It rewards the Pack’s leading scorer for his two years of loyalty and hard work.
The contract for two years encompasses two-way money at $750K-$775K-NHL/$315-$325K-AHL.
He was then recalled to New York, and Zac Jones was sent down for significant ice time and game action.
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James Sanchez returns to the Pack’s ECHL affiliates, the Jacksonville Icemen to get some ice time.
Ex-Pack goalie Tom McCollum is loaned from HC Innsbruck (Austria-IceHL) to SC Bietigheim/Bissen (Germany DEL) for the rest of the year.
Ex-Sound Tiger Shane Prince heads from Avtomobilst Yekaterinburg (Russia-KHL) to HC Lugano (Switzerland-LNA). Former New Haven Nighthawk/Springfield Indian, Chris McSorley, coaches them.
The GM for HC Lugano handing out his last foreign player license is former Hartford Whaler Hnat Dominechelli. Prince is also part of a handful of Western players in the KHL, who, in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, have sought to terminate their contracts.
The Pack’s Mat Lorito left the Baltic nation of Latvia last month ahead of the invasion of their neighbor.
-Yesterday was Tarmo Reunanen’s 24th birthday.
-Canon Pieper (Quinnipiac University) has gone from Orlando (ECHL) to Adirondack (ECHL).
