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Courtesy Las Vegas Wranglers
Former Bakersfield Condor defenseman Sean Hurley is now a member of the Las Vegas Wranglers after agreeing to terms with the team on Tuesday.
Published Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009 | 11:06 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009 | 11:36 a.m.
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The Las Vegas Wranglers' roster is starting to fill up as the team announced it had agreed to terms with two defensemen and one forward on Tuesday morning.
The most veteran of the three, 26-year-old defenseman Sean Hurley, is entering his second full professional season. He played in 46 games for the Bakersfield Condors last season while also seeing times with the Worcester Sharks and Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League.
Prior to turning pro, the 6-foot-3, 211-pound Rutland, Vermont native, starred at Brown University where he posted 79 points in 126 games.
"Sean was a player sought after heavily following a great collegiate career,” said Wranglers general manager and head coach Ryan Mougenel in a press release. “I'm excited to work with him to get him to that elite level. He’ll be a very responsible, offensive defenseman for us."
The other two joining Hurley are John Schwarz and Jeff Hazelwood.
Schwarz might be a familiar face to some Wranglers fans as he appeared in four games last season on an Amateur Tryout Agreement following four years at Michigan Tech.
The forward added to the Wranglers roster is 24-year-old rookie Jeff Hazelwood. The Dublin, Calif. native spent the last two years at Curry College where earned ECAC Northeast Player of the Year honors for leading Curry with 25 goals and 23 assists in just 27 games. In 53 games collegiate games, Hazelwood posted 93 points.
These new Wranglers and will take the ice Oct. 2 for the start of the training camp.
Slowly but surely the roster is filling out.
Steve, any word on McCoullch or Fisher?
No word yet LPN, but I'd love to see both of them come back
I don't expect to see Fisher back. His rights belonged to Springfield (AHL) and he was loaned to us last year, much to Stockton's dismay. It seems more likely that our second goalie would come from the Phoenix organization.
These are the five goalies in the Phoenix organization I know of:
Al Montoya
Jason LaBarbera
Ilya Bryzgalov
Joel Gistedt
Josh Tordjman
LaBarbera and Bryzgalov should be with Phoenix. Montoya and Tordjman played for San Antonio for most of last year and Montoya played a few games for Phoenix. Gistedt only played one game for San Antonio and was in the CHL with the Arizona Sundogs.
Logic (which doesn't always work) says: Bryzgalov and LaBarbera will be with the Coyotes. Montoya and Tordjman split the workload in San Antonio last year--and probably will again. Joel Gistedt spent most of last season in the CHL and appears to be a strong candidate to be sent to Las Vegas--unless he can leapfrog someone in front of him.
Sorry...Vagman beat me by mere seconds!
Steve: Any indication from the organization on how many players they are expecting from the Coyotes organization?
I love the competition vagman and Dmoney.
I really don't know about the Phoenix question. The Wranglers were never too Calgary heavy, but I would expect a handful of players from the Coyotes' organization for sure.
Here is a link to the list I found of the players that attended Phoenix's prospect development camp this summer:
http://coyotes.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=...