Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Fort Wayne Komets Add Former Vernon Viper Tufto To Season-Ending Roster:

The ECHL Fort Wayne Komets announced the team’s season-ending

roster from the 2024-25 season. This is the second of a several-step process that teams use to begin building their rosters for the 2025-26 season. The Komets have twenty players listed on the team's season-ending roster, one is former Vernon Vipers forward Odeen Tufto.

The ECHL (formerly the East Coast Hockey League) is a minor professional ice hockey league based in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, with teams across the United States and Canada. Competitively, it is a tier below the American Hockey League (AHL). The league serves as a farm system to the AHL and the National Hockey League (NHL).

From echl.com


Tufto played the 2024-25 season with the ECHL Fort Wayne Komets, his first season with the Komets. The Komets signed Tufto August 6th 2024. In 36 games last season, Tufto collected (12-goals-26-assists-38-points).

The Komets are Tufto's seventh team since 2021.

Tufto played four seasons at Quinnipiac University from 2017-2021 before signing his first professional contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning March 31st 2021. The Lightning assigned Tufto to the American Hockey League Syracuse Crunch after his college season ended in 2021. Tufto has never played a game with the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Tufto played one season in Vernon with the 2015-16 Vernon Vipers. In 57 games with the Vipers, Tufto collected (25-goals-40-assists-65-points). Tufto left the Vipers after one season for the United States Hockey League. Tufto played one season in the USHL with Fargo, Tri-City & Sioux City before committing to Quinnipiac University for the 2017-18 season.

Odeen Tufto's Player Profile:

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