Vitale (concussion) has been ruled out for the season by Red Wings general manager Ken Holland, Mike Halford of NBCSports.com reports.
Vitale suffered the concussion after a fight with Boston’s Kevan Miller last October, and was limited to just the one game.
After the UW-Stevens Point men’s hockey team captured its fifth national championship, former players Joe Kalisz (Davison, MI/Davison), Evan Dixon (Novi, MI), Sean Gammage (Wildwood, MO) and Logan Lemirande (Janesville, WI) all signed professional contracts today, continuing their playing careers.
Yan Stastny saw it and appreciated the sentiment. Since playing for the St. Louis Sting in 1999-2000, Stastny has been in professional hockey with 14 different teams in eight different leagues and five different countries.
Stastny signed a professional tryout agreement with St. Louis on Thursday, James Mirtle of TSN 1050 reports.
The Quad City Mallards have signed forward Michael Parks, the Mallards announced today.
Injury limited Parks, 24, to three games- and one assist- as a rookie with the American Hockey League’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms last season.
After scoring 107 points in his first OHL season, and being drafted to a team in desperate need of wingers, Matthew Tkachuk seems like a shoe-in to make the Calgary Flames roster for the start of the 2016-17 season.
A veteran of six pro seasons, the 6-2, 201-pound McRae spent this past year with the AHL’s Bakersfield Condors, skating in 35 games and registering nine goals and six assists for 15 points, along with 33 penalty minutes.
The Indy Fuel, proud ECHL affiliate of the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks and the AHL’s Rockford IceHogs, announced Tuesday that forwards Alex Wideman and Raphaël Corriveau have agreed to terms on ECHL contracts for the 2016-17 season.
The 2016 Southern Professional Hockey League President’s Cup Champions, the Pensacola Ice Flyers, have signed a pair of rookies and college teammates, Sean Gammage and Logan Lemirande, to the Ice Flyers’ 2016 training camp roster.
The Quad City Mallards have re-signed forward Sam Warning for the 2016-17 season.
The Mallards are the ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League’s Minnesota Wild and the American Hockey League’s Iowa Wild.
