Tuesday, July 2, 2013

IceGators Add Former Vipers Short & Ofukany To Teams Protected List:

On June 5th the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) announced
the Protected Lists as submitted by each of its member teams. The Louisiana IceGators have added and protected 13 players from their roster, including former Vernon Vipers forwards Rob Short & Troy Ofukany.

Rob Short finished his third season with the IceGators.  In 51 games with Louisiana Short picked up (13-36-49).  Short played five season's in Vernon (2006-2010) and is the only player in franchise history to have his number retired. In 229 regular season games with the Vipers Short collected (61-76-137).

Rob Short's Player Profile:

http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=102383

Troy Ofukany finished his first season with the IceGators after starting the season with the Central Hockey League (CHL) Tulsa Oilers.   In 23 games last year with Tulsa Ofukany collected (2-4-6).  The Ice Gators signed Ofukany to a three game tryout contract on February 7th 2013 before signing the former Viper on February 14th 2013.  In 23 games last season with Louisiana Ofukany collected (5-6-11).  Ofukany attended the 2004-05 Vernon Vipers training camp, playing in a few exibition games before leaving the Vipers, & signing with the WHL Kelowna Rockets that season.

Troy Ofukany's Player Profile:

http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=80312

This is posted on the SPHL website:

SPHL Announces Expansion Draft Selections, Protected Lists

Date: Jun 05, 2013

HUNTERSVILLE, NC – The Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) today announced the results of the 2013 Expansion Draft held for the Bloomington Blaze and Peoria Rivermen.  All players named to the Augusta RiverHawks protected list were eligible for the draft.

(1)  Peoria - Robert Moss
(2)  Bloomington - Kyle Watson
(3)  Bloomington - Alex Morton
(4)  Peoria - Shaun Skelly
(5)  Peoria - Joe Schiller
(6)  Bloomington - Curtis Megginson
(7)  Bloomington - Marcus Pryde
(8)  Peoria - Jason Price
(9)  Peoria - Taylor Larsen
(10)  Bloomington - Dennis Sicard
(11)  Bloomington - Drew Baker
(12)  Peoria - Matt Auffrey

In addition, the protected lists for the 2013-2014 season were released:

Bloomington - Alex Morton, Dennis Sicard, Kyle Watson, Marcus Pryde, Drew Baker, Curtis Megginson

Columbus - Andrew Loewen, Kyle Johnson, Jordan Draper, Will Aide, Levi Lind, Daniel Amesbury, Matt Gingera, Derek Pallardy, Jason Yuel, Tom Fitzpatrick, Chris Bailer, Bret Tyler, Tom Maldonado

Fayetteville - Mike Kavanagh, Corey Toy, John Clewlow, Derek Elliott, Ben Contini, Josh McQuade, Anthony Bergin, Andrew Smale, Chris Leveille, Marco Emond, Brock Sawyer, Kyle McNeil, Brandon Richardson

Huntsville - Stuart Stefan, Justin Fox, Aaron McGill, Leland Fidler, Bill Baker, Justin Cseter, Nick Lazorko, Corey Fulton, Kyle Laughlin, Mike Gurtler, Jesse Kallechy, Dan McWhinney, Sam Cannata

Knoxville - Tyler Fernandez, Jon Higgins, Bryan Hince, Jeremy Klaver, Peter Neal, Brad Pawlowski, Nate Peterson, Eric Satim, David Segal, Ben Souders, Connor Toomey, Mark Van Vliet, Steve Weidler

Louisiana - Matt Robertson, Robert Short, Jeremy Boyer, Kirk Byczynski, Tyler Lyon, Clark Byczynski, Troy Ofukany, Cody Zubko, Greg Brown, Weston Cydell, Dennis Kearney, Riley Gill, Tyler Barr

Mississippi RiverKings - Matt Whitehead, Mike MacDonald, Matt Harrington, Todd Hosmer, Tom Craig, Ian Finnerty, Kevin Willer, Matthew Krahn, David Wilson, Ricky Helmbrecht, Mike Hayward, Tyler Sheldrake, Kyle Lundale

Mississippi Surge - Trent Bonnett, Dan Clarke, Anthony Collins, Reid Edmondson, Matt Gordon, Branden Kosolofsky, Kyle Kudroch, Nicholas Kuqali, Jarkko Leppanen, Matt Ridley, Kiefer Smiley, Adam Stuart, Jeff Winchester

Pensacola - Gabriel Boutin-Gagnon, Brad Cooper, Jordan Chong, Ron Cramer, Jeremy Gates, Ryan Salvis, Steve Bergin, Joe Caveney, John Dunbar, Mitchell Good, Ross MacKinnon, Patrick Knowlton, Ryan Raven

Peoria - Robert Moss, Joe Schiller, Shawn Skelly, Jason Price, Taylor Larsen, Matt Auffrey

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