Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Flames Assign Former Viper Pelley To American Hockey League:

The Calgary Flames have assigned former Vernon Vipers forward
Rod Pelley to the American Hockey League Stockton Heat.

The Flames invited Pelley to training camp September 13th 2017.

Pelley has spent the past four seasons as captain with the American Hockey League (AHL) Albany Devils.

On January 23 2017 the first 1,500 fans at the Albany Devils home game received a Rod Pelley bobblehead before the game.

http://www.thealbanydevils.com/jan-23-rod-pelley-bobblehead-enter-to-win/

After four years at Ohio State University Pelley signed a two year entry-level contract with the New Jersey Devils. Pelley would spend five years (2006-2011) with the New Jersey Devils and Lowell Devils before being traded to the Anaheim Ducks in 2011. Pelley has played five seasons in the NHL with New Jersey & Anaheim. In 71 games last season with the Devils Pelley collected (6-goals-7-assists-13-points). Pelley will enter this season his fourth season as captain with Albany.

Pelley played parts of one season in Vernon (2001-2002) On January 10th 2001 the Vipers traded Mark Nelson & Tyler Scofield to Prince George for Josh Ciocco, Rod Pelley & Dan Rossi. Pelley played in 19 regular season games with the Vipers collecting (10-goals-8-assists-18-points).

Rod Pelley's Player Profile:

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=11019

This was posted on the Flames website:

FLAMES REDUCE ROSTER BY 21

47 players remain at training camp

by CALGARY FLAMES STAFF @NHLFlames / CalgaryFlames.com

September 19th, 2017

The Calgary Flames announced today that they have assigned six players to their American Hockey League affiliate, the Stockton Heat: Kayle Doetzel (RD), Brett Findlay (C), Mason McDonald (G), Rod Pelley (C), Hunter Smith (RW) and Oleg Yevenko (LD).

The Flames also announced that they have assigned the following ten players to their respective junior clubs: Sam Dove-McFalls (Saint John/QMJHL), Zach Fischer (Medicine Hat/WHL), Glenn Gawdin (Swift Current/WHL), Ben Hawerchuk (Barrie/OHL), Tyson Helgesen (Spokane/WHL), Brad Morrison (Vancouver/WHL), Matthew Phillips (Victoria/WHL), Mark Rassell (Medicine Hat/WHL), Adam Ruzicka (Sarnia/OHL) and Nick Schneider (Calgary/WHL).

The Flames have released the following five players who have been invited to Stockton's training camp : Joel Lowry (LW), Daniel Maggio (RD), Dylan Olsen (LD), Sam Ruopp (LD) and Cliff Watson (LD).

Calgary has 47 players remaining at training camp (5x goalies, 14x defencemen, 28x forwards).

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