Thursday, July 3, 2025

Komets Add Former Vernon Viper Tufto To Protected List:

The ECHL Fort Wayne Komets announced the team’s protected list of

players from the 2024-25 season.  This is the first of a several-step process that ECHL teams use to begin building their rosters for the 2025-26 season. The Komets have twenty eight players listed on their Protected List, 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 https://komets.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 regular season games 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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