Tyler Parks started the season with Evansville, where he went 0-4 and struggled. But the Rivermen jumped at the chance to get him when he was released, and he has shined with fourth-place Peoria. On Monday he was called up to the ECHL by Missouri.
The Peoria Rivermen got 23 saves from Tyler Parks and three goals in the final two periods to beat the Evansville Thunderbolts 3-0 at the Ford Center on Friday night. The win, Peoria’s first since December 2 at Columbus, comes before the Rivermen and Thunderbolts conclude their home-and-home series Saturday night in Peoria.
The Peoria Rivermen signed goaltender Tyler Parks on Tuesday, as expected, after they released goaltender Troy Davenport the day before.
Parks began the season with expansion Evansville, and went 0-3-1 with a 3.47 goals-against and an .896 saves rate.
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.
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.
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 Columbus Cottonmouths have re-signed a pair of forwards — Craig Simchuk and Patrick McCadden — the team announced Wednesday.
After a road trip in which they suffered three losses in three days, the Fayetteville FireAntz needed something positive to happen to keep their Southern Professional Hockey League playoff hopes alive.
Tommy Lange made sure it did, rifling a shot past the Columbus goalie with less than three minutes to play as the FireAntz pulled out a 3-2 triumph at the Crown Coliseum on Tuesday evening.
Moss, 25, won 16 games with Augusta last season and was one of the top goaltenders in the league, posting a 2.93 goals-against and .913 saves rate.
The Chesterfield, Mo., native played four seasons at St. Lawrence University, and the Rivermen made him the No. 1 pick overall in the SPHL Dispersal Draft earlier this summer.
Former Wildcats hockey standout Jeremiah Ketts (Foristell, Mo.) is in his first season with the Pensicola Ice Flyers of the Southern Professional Hockey League. In 18 games played, he has tallied five goals and five assists.
