Thursday, May 2, 2024

Allen Americans Add Vipers Alumni Finlay To 2024 Playoff Roster:

Former Vernon Vipers forward Liam Finlay is one of twenty four

players added to the ECHL Allen Americans 2024 Playoff roster.

Here is the press release from the Allen Americans website,


Finlay and the Americans opened the first round of the ECHL Playoffs vs the Idaho Steelheads in the Mountain Division Semifinals. The Steelheads won the best of seven playoff series 4 games to 1 after a 5-3 victory in Game 5 on April 28th. In 5 Playoff games, Finlay collected (1-goal-2-assists-3-points).

Finlay is in his second season with the Americans. The Americans re-signed Finlay July 13th 2023. In 26 regular season games, Finlay collected (8-goals-11-assist-19-points).

Finlay spent the 2022-23 season with ECHL Allen Americans. The Americans signed Finlay September 27th 2022. In 54 games last season, Finlay collected (33-goals-37-assists-70-points). On April 12th 2023 Finlay was named to the ECHL 2022-23 All-Rookie team.

Finlay played the previous two seasons in Europe playing with four different teams (KOVEE, HK Nitra, Tingsryds AIF & EHC Freiburg) from 2020-2022.

Finlay played four years at Denver University from 2016-2020 before signing his first professional contract with Koovee September 7th 2020. Koovee is a Finnish ice hockey team that plays in the Mestis, second-tier league where the team is based in Tampere, Finland. 

Finlay attended the Vancouver Canucks development camp in July 2019.

Finlay played parts of two seasons in Vernon (2014-2016) after coming over in a trade with the Penticton Vees. The Vipers traded the Junior A playing rights of Dakota Conroy & future considerations October 28th 2014 to the Penticton Vees for Liam Finlay. In 96 games with the Vipers, Finlay collected (39-goals-69-assists-109-points).

Liam Finlay's Player Profile:

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