It’s another busy day around the world of professional hockey, including in the NHL. Almost the entire NHL is set to play today, starting with a matinee contest set to feature Alex DeBrincat’s return to Ottawa. Overseas, most of Europe’s major pro leagues have games on schedule, including the SHL, Liiga, and Swiss NL.
Just as teams across the hockey world are busy preparing for games, many teams are also still hard at work looking to add, subtract, or extend players. As always, we’ll keep track of notable player transactions here:
- Former Brandon Wheat Kings star and Carolina Hurricanes prospect Stelio Mattheos has made the choice to continue his pro career overseas. Mattheos has signed a contract with Södertälje SK in Sweden’s HockeyAllsvenskan, the second tier of pro hockey in the country. Now 24, Mattheos has spent the bulk of his time since graduating out of the WHL in the AHL with the Chicago Wolves. He’s only amassed 27 points in 112 career AHL games, though, so perhaps he’ll find more of a scoring touch in a place like the Allsvenskan, where Mattheos could find seizing a scoring-line role an easier prospect.
- 28-year-old winger Erik Brown, a former Bridgeport Islanders / Sound Tigers AHLer, has made the decision to conclude his playing career at the age of 28. Brown was slated to play this season for Vaasan Sport in the Finnish Liiga, formally beginning his overseas pro career. Due to his decision to retire, though, he’ll finish his time in Vaasa with just 12 games played and a respectable seven points. Once a college hockey captain and leading scorer at Rochester Institute of Technology, Brown won a conference title as a freshman and went on to play some playoff hockey in the AHL with the Islanders.
- This season, Boston Bruins defensive prospect Jonathan Myrenberg appears to have made the full-time jump from the second-tier HockeyAllsvenskan to the SHL. Yesterday, that jump was seemingly confirmed as Myrenberg was signed to a contract extension by his SHL club, Linköping HC. The 20-year-old right-shot blueliner had his rights acquired by the Bruins in the Jack Studnicka trade, and Boston retains the exclusive rights to sign Myrenberg until June 1st, 2025. So far, Myrenberg has scored three assists in 12 games for Linköping, averaging 17:03 TOI per game.
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