Sunday, April 10, 2016

Viper Alumni Magowan Will Finish Season With Foxes:

Former Vernon Vipers forward Kenny Magowan will finish the season with the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL)-(German Ice Hockey League) Lausitzer Foxes. The Foxes have added an option to extend Magowan's contract at the end of the season.

Magowan is in his first season with the Foxes after signing a tryout December 17th 2015. The Lausitzer Füchse (literally Lusatian Foxes) are a professional ice hockey team based in Weißwasser, Saxony. They currently play in DEL2, the second level of ice hockey in Germany.

Magowan played last season with two clubs (Frankfurt Lions & Vienna Capitals).  Magowan started last year with the DEL Frankfurt Lions before leaving the team in January.  The Lions are a professional men's ice hockey club from Frankfurt, Germany that play in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga hockey league. The Lions signed Magowan October 22nd 2014. Magowan played in 17 games picked up (9-goals-8-assists-17-points).  The Capitals are an Austrian professional ice hockey club that play in Vienna, Austria signed Magowan to a three day tryout on February 9th 2015.  Magowan left the Capitals after playing in just 10 games, collected (2-goals-2-assists-4-points).

Magowan spent three seasons (2004-2007) playing in the East Coast Hockey League & American Hockey League with six different teams (Albany, Augusta, Toledo, Philadelphia, Rochester & Bridgeport) before playing the last eight seasons in Germany with five different teams (SC Riessersee, Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg, Adler Mannheim, Lowen Frankfurt & Vienna Capitals).

Magowan played two seasons in Vernon (1998-2000) played in 118 games with the Vipers collecting (46-goals-62-assists-108-points). Magowan was drafted by the New Jersey Devils 198th overall in Round 7 at the 2000 NHL Entry Draft.

Kenny Magowan's Player Profile:

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=15121

This is posted on the Foxes website:

Ken Magowan remains in Weißwasser

18:01:16 09:49

Foxes pull option at the Canadian attacker

Ken Magowan will remain until the end of the season at the Lausitz foxes. The hockey Zweitligist has drawn the option to extend the contract. Magowan came just before Christmas to white water and immediately became one of the top performers in the team. In eleven games he met five times and had five assists. The attacker scored among others on Sunday in Bremerhaven the winning goal for white water in the extension (2: 1).

The 34-year-old before his time for foxes, among others in the DEL for Mannheim and Wolfsburg in use.

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