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By: Alex Thomas, Hartford Wolf Pack HARTFORD, CT – New York Rangers General Manager Chris Drury announced today that the club has assigned forwards Jonny Brodzinski and Jake Leschyshyn, defenseman Libor Hájek, and goaltender Louis Domingue to the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack. Brodzinski, 29, led the Wolf Pack in scoring with 48 points (21 g, 27 a) in 47 games this season. The native of Ham Lake, Minnesota, was named the AHL’s ‘Player of the Month’ for the month of March after scoring 20 points (11 g, 9 a) in just eleven games. Brodzinski also suited up in 17 games with the Rangers during the 2022-23 season, scoring two points (1 g, 1 a). Over the course of three seasons, Brodzinski has appeared in 96 games with the Wolf Pack, scoring 45 goals and 59 assists for 104 points. He has scored ten points (5 g, 5 a) in 13 career Calder Cup Playoff games, all with the Ontario Reign. He has also been the Wolf Pack’s captain for the last two seasons. Leschyshyn, 24, scored 15 points (5 g, 10 a) in 18 games with the Wolf Pack this season after being assigned to the club on February 26th. He also appeared in 13 games with the Rangers and 22 games with the Vegas Golden Knights during the 2022-23 campaign. The native of Raleigh, North Carolina, was claimed off waivers by the Rangers from the Golden Knights on January 11th. He has appeared in 155 career AHL games, scoring 61 points (29 g, 32 a), and 76 NHL games, scoring six points (2 g, 4 a). He has also suited up in nine career Calder Cup Playoff games with the Chicago Wolves and Henderson Silver Knights. Hájek, 25, dressed in 24 games with the Wolf Pack during the 2022-23 campaign, scoring six points (2 g, 4 a). Both of his goals were game-winning, including his tally in Hartford’s 5-3 victory at the Providence Bruins on April 8th that clinched the club's first playoff berth since 2015. He also skated in 16 games with the Rangers this season, scoring one goal. Domingue, 31, appeared in 44 games with the Wolf Pack, posting a record of 22-12-8 with a .911 save percentage and 2.51 goals against average. He also registered four shutouts during the regular season. The native of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, won nine straight starts from March 15th through April 14th, helping lead the Wolf Pack to the playoffs. The Wolf Pack return to the XL Center for Game Three of their Atlantic Division Semifinals series on Wednesday, May 3rd. The Wolf Pack lead the Providence Bruins 2-0 in the series and can advance with a victory. The puck drop is set for 7:00 p.m. Please visit HERE. ABOUT THE HARTFORD WOLF PACK: The Hartford Wolf Pack has been a premier franchise in the American Hockey League since the team’s inception in 1997. The Wolf Pack is the top player-development affiliate of the NHL's New York Rangers and plays at the XL Center. The Wolf Pack has been home to some of the Rangers' newest faces, including Igor Shesterkin, Filip Chytil, and Ryan Lindgren. Follow the Wolf Pack on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. HARTFORD WOLF PACK HOME Read the full article

By: Alex Thomas, Hartford Wolf Pack HARTFORD, CT – New York Rangers President and General Manager Chris Drury announced today that the club has agreed to terms with forward C.J. Smith on a one-year contract. Smith, 27, skated in 60 games for the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League during the 2021-22 season. In his lone season with the Wolves, Smith recorded a career-high 34 assists and tied his career-high with 58 points (24 g, 34 a). He finished third on the Wolves in goals (24), assists (34), and points (58). In 16 playoff games, Smith added nine points (3 g, 6 a) as the Wolves won the 2022 Calder Cup Championship. Smith also suited up in one game for the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes on December 18th, 2021. SMITH HISTORY The 5'11", 184-pound forward has appeared in 244 career AHL contests with the Wolves and Rochester Americans, scoring 200 points (85 g, 115 a) and registering a plus-17 rating. In 22 career Calder Cup playoff games, Smith has added 13 points (4 g, 9 a). Smith was named to the 2018 AHL All-Star Game while a member of the Americans. He scored 44 points (17 g, 22 a) in 57 games during the 2017-18 campaign. The native of Des Moines, Iowa, has also appeared in 15 career NHL games with the Hurricanes (2021-22) and Buffalo Sabres (2016-17 – 2020-21). During his time in the NHL, Smith has scored three points (2 g, 1 a). Before his professional career, Smith spent three seasons playing college hockey at UMass-Lowell. As a member of the River Hawks, Smith appeared in 120 games and scored 125 points (56 g, 69 a). As a junior during the 2016-17 season, he helped lead the program to a Hockey East Tournament Championship while taking home Tournament MVP and All-Tournament Team honors. ABOUT OVG360 OVG360, a division of Oak View Group, is a full-service venue management and hospitality company that helps client-partners reimagine the sports, live entertainment, and convention industries for the betterment of the venue, employees, artists, athletes, and surrounding communities. With a portfolio of more than 200 client partners spanning arenas, stadiums, convention centers, performing arts centers, cultural institutions, and state fairs around the globe, OVG360 provides services, resources, and expertise designed to elevate every aspect of business that matters to venue operators. Service-oriented and driven by social responsibility, OVG360 helps facilities drive value through excellence and innovation in food services, booking and content development, sustainable operations, public health, public safety, and more. ABOUT THE HARTFORD WOLF PACK The Hartford Wolf Pack has been a premier franchise in the American Hockey League since the team's inception in 1997. The Wolf Pack are the top player-development affiliate of the NHL's New York Rangers and play at the XL Center. The Wolf Pack has been home to some of the Rangers' newest faces, including Igor Shesterkin, Filip Chytil, and Ryan Lindgren. Follow the Wolf Pack on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. HARTFORD WOLF PACK HOME Read the full article

BY: Gerry Cantlon - Howlings HARTFORD, CT - Alex Barré-Boulet’s goal and two assists paced an 8-4 Syracuse Crunch victory as the tumble down the Atlantic Division standings for the Hartford Wolf Pack continues. The Pack dropped their seventh straight and have lost nine of their last eleven games while surrendering 24 goals in the previous four games and allowed seven or more goals three times in a month. Only the exemplary efforts of newcomers former UCONN Husky Maxim Letunov and UMASS Minuteman Bobby Trivigno, who had two primary assists in his debut game, have stood out. The team had a players-only meeting after the game, while the coaches and upper management were in post-game meetings as they separately tried to sort out what had caused this unraveling. In addition, the team pulled the plug on their post-game Zoom press conference for the first time to deal with this on-ice collapse. The Wolf Pack leave home for what remains of the regular season in an all-important seven-game road trip. As a result of their strong play earlier in the season, the team remarkably is still in the playoff hunt sitting in fifth place with a .524 winning percentage, just a fraction ahead of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, who were 9-2 winners at home against the Bridgeport Islanders who led 2-0 in the first period but allowed nine unanswered goals. Bridgeport has a .523 winning percentage, but the Wolf Pack still control their destiny as just the Penguins and the Charlotte Checkers, 3-1 winners over the Hershey Bears, took advantage of the losses in the division. SECOND PERIOD Both the first and second periods were a wild affair as in the first period, the two teams exchanged goals. However, when the second intermission came, the Wolf Pack trailed 6-4. The goal-scoring started early as Cole Koepke registered his 19th of the season at 1:32 from new defenseman Brandon Scanlin. An assist each went to Barré-Boulet and ex-New York Ranger, Frederik Claesson. The Pack came back to within one at 4-3 after Hunter Skinner sent his fourth of the season into the net from a cross-ice pass from Trivigno, who registered his first pro point at 7:36. However, the Pack’s poor play continued as the Crunch tallied just 1:23 later. Simon Ryfors was in the slot in the shooter’s position on one knee and blasted home Gabriell Fortier’s left-wing corner pass past Pack starter Keith Kinkaid at 10:28. At 17:51, Ty Ronning brought the Pack back to within a goal on his 17th of the season, taking advantage of Alex Whelan’s second effort hustle on the left-wing boards. He beat ex-Pack Darren Raddysh to the puck and caught Ronning in full stride with a backhand chip pass. Ronning snapped it past Amir Miftakhakov to the glove side. Miftakhakov hasn’t played since February 19th. The Wolf Pack gave the goal right back just 59 seconds later. HERE WE GO AGAIN Ronning was the first Pack player to tally multiple goals in a game in a month. His last multiple-goal game came on November 5th. Syracuse’s Otto Sompii beat everyone to a loose puck on the left-wing side and shipped it back to ex-Pack Sean Day at the blue line. Day beat Kinkaid from 55-feet out with a high shot to the short side and off the post. In the third period, Nick Merkley cashed in for his 13th goal to make it 6-5, with Trivigno earning his second pro point with a nice setup in tight at 3:29. The Pack power-play continued to sputter, going 0-for-9 on the weekend, and gave up their ninth shorthanded tally. Merkley had a quality chance stopped, and Lauri Pajuniemi’s cross-ice pass for Austin Rueschoff late in the power play was picked off by Gabriel Dumont. Anthony Richard broke away from Scanlin and Ronning and slipped in his 13th goal on Dumont’s lead pass at 8:09. Finally, Richard put the last nail in the coffin with his second goal into an empty net at 17:13. FIRST PERIOD A wild first period started with Barré-Boulet’s tally at 1:50. Syracuse had the edge in shots, 6-1 in the game’s first two minutes. However, the Wolf Pack answered as Patrick Khordorenko snaked a pass for his eighth goal off assists by Zac Jones with the primary helper and Zach Guittari earning the secondary assist at 4:47. The Pack took a rare lead at 2-1 when Ronning got his 16th goal at 3:05. His shot went off rookie Declan Carlile. Gabriel Fortier, who could operate freely from behind the net, found Simon Ryfors open on the doorstep, and he jammed home his eighth goal at 10:28. Again operating behind the net, Riley Nash found Carlile, a former Hockey East second-team All-Star, up top. Carlile put a nice shot over Kinkaid’s right shoulder to restore Syracuse’s lead at 13:56 with his first AHL goal. LINES Merkley-#10-Bobby Trivigno-Letunov Ronning-Greco-Khordorenko Rueschoff-Pajuniemi-Fritz Whelan-O’Leary-DiGiacinto Lorito Tinordi-Skinner Jones-Scanlin Robertson-Guittari Kinkaid Huska SCRATCHES: Gettinger - (Upper-Body) Taylor Lundkvist (Illness, day-to-day, Questionable for Monday) Brodzinski #17 NEWS Abbott Girduckis was released from his PTO and sent back to the Jacksonville Icemen (ECHL) with Trivigno and Brodzinski now in Hartford. The signing of Ethan Brodzinski from St. Cloud State (NCHC) to a PTO deal makes him the third Brodzinski to put on a Wolf Pack sweater this season. Only one Brodzinski brother hasn’t yet. That would be Bryce Brodzinski, who is currently going to the Frozen Four next weekend in Boston with the Minnesota Golden Gophers. It’s not the first-time siblings there have been brought into the Wolf Pack fold, but the first time in the regular season and three of them. Michael Brodzinski is back with the Orlando Solar Bears (ECHL) and played three games mid-season. But, of course, Jonny, the team’s leading goal scorer and captain of the Wolf Pack, is currently on recall in New York. Over 25 years, just a few brothers have been on the ice in three separate training camps. Wolf Pack great and AHL Hall of Famer, Ken Gernander, saw his twin brothers Jim and Jerry here one fall. PA (Pierre-Alexandre) Parenteau brought brother Guillaume, and Dane Byers had brother Cole to Hartford one year. Only a few have played together in the regular season. The most famous were brothers Chris and Ryan Bourque, the sons of Hall-of-Famer Ray Bourque. They were the only duo to play together. The other two did not, Peter and Chris Ferraro, and Chris (older) and Michael (younger) St. Croix. In the lineup, Syracuse had ex-Pack’s P.C. Labrie, Daniel Walcott, Day, and Raddysh. Scratched as he was when he was here was  Brandon Crawley. Day was hurt late in the game in the neutral zone. At the first break in play, he exited to the dressing room with an undisclosed injury. He never returned. In 16 months of playing and a little over two years since the Las Vegas Golden Knights purchased their AHL team, The Henderson (NV) Silver Knights debuted their new $84 Million Loan Arena on Saturday night in a 5-2 loss to the Bakersfield Condors. Next season San Jose Barracuda and Coachella Valley Firebirds will debut new state-of-the-art-new arenas. Tarmo Reunanen will be wearing #29 for his new team, the Chicago Wolves. He will skate along with ex-Hartford Whaler and Trumbull product Ted Drury’s son, Jack Drury, ex-Pack skaters Chris Bigras, Joey Keane, and former Yale Bulldog Alex Lyon. also on the roster are the loaned-out former Bridgeport Islander, Richard Pánik. They will host the Texas Stars featuring one-time Sound Tiger Blake Comeau and GM, one-time New Haven Senator MVP Scott White. 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High-scoring forward to return to AHL with Carolina affiliate BY: Jordan Kuhn, Greenville Swamp Rabbits GREENVILLE, S.C. — Swamp Rabbits forward Kamerin Nault has signed a Professional Tryout contract (PTO) with the Charlotte Checkers, the AHL affiliate of the Carolina Hurricanes, and will join their active roster immediately. Nault, 24, ranks seventh in team scoring with 34 points. The Winnipegger was one of the top rookies in the league out of the University of Manitoba last season and has not stopped in his second season in Greenville out of the University of Manitoba. In 60 games in the ECHL, he has scored 53 points, with 28 goals, good for a .883 points-per-game mark. He enters his time in Charlotte with points in 12 of his last 16 games (7 goals, 7 assists). He owns a well-above-average shooting percentage of 15.4% in his ECHL career. Nault has one game of AHL experience with the Manitoba Moose to end last season. He scored a goal and an assist in his American Hockey League debut against the Chicago Wolves on April 14, 2019. Nault had a strong junior career with his hometown Winnipeg Blues, where he scored over 30 goals in a season twice and claimed the MJHL championship in 2014. Get Social: Follow the Swamp Rabbits and get behind-the-scenes coverage like never before on the team’s official Facebook and Twitter pages! Contact a Swamp Rabbits Account Executive at 864.674.PUCK (7825) for information on 2019–20 ticket plans, special group rates, and hospitality opportunities and secure your seats today! Get the latest Swamp Rabbits gear by visiting the “Hop Shop” online at Shop.SwampRabbits.com to browse the full collection of fan wear and novelties! Read the full article