The Stockton Thunder, proud ECHL affiliate of the NHL’s New York Islanders and AHL’s Bridgeport Sound Tigers, have traded rookie forward J.P. Burkemper to the Toledo Walleye in exchange for cash considerations, Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations Rich Kromm announced Tuesday.
Stockton Thunder Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations Rich Kromm announced Monday that the team has signed defenseman Michal Spacek and forward J.P. Burkemper. The two players were in training camp with the Thunder and played in the team’s preseason games.
The Minnesota State men’s hockey roster suddenly is a little thinner up front.
Last week, junior forward Corey Leivermann decided to leave the team, and today, junior forward J.P. Burkemper will have surgery to repair a torn labrum in his hip that has ailed him throughout much of the first half of the season.
