Moving Day: A Few More Alaska Connections Head To AHL

A few more Alaska-connected players got shipped from NHL camps to American Hockey League clubs since our last blog entry.

Former Alaska Aces goaltender Jean-Philippe Lamoureux, who won pretty much every ECHL goalie award last season, when he bagged a league-record eight shutouts and a league-leading 33 wins as a rookie, is headed to AHL Portland (Maine) after his stay in camp with the Buffalo Sabres. Good to see JP getting a shot at the next level.

Also headed to the AHL is former Aces enforcer Eric Neilson, who was in camp with the Montreal Canadiens. He's ticketed for the Hamilton Bulldogs (Ontario), who are headed to Scotland for the Gardiner Cup, which includes Hamilton, the AHL Toronto Marlies and two Scottish clubs in Great Britain's EIHL, the Edinburgh Captials (Colin Hemingway's old club) and the Belfast Giants.

And the Calgary Flames shipped former UAF winger Kyle Greentree to AHL Abbotsford in British Columbia.