Patrick Williamstheahl.com writer
The young prospect of summer months means time for September to rest, rehabilitate and build bootcamps.
For the goalkeeper Tomas Suchanekthat was the plan last summer. Until not.
A ruptured ACL resulted in a knee surgery in September, and Sustanek missed the entire 2024-25 season after a strong rookie sport. Suchanek did not draft and signed an AHL contract, and started in the ECHL with an average speed of 14-10-5 at 2023-24 with an average score of 2.92, while the San Diego Seagulls’ savings percentage was .910. Anaheim signed a three-year entry-level contract in March 2024.
Suchanek, 22, begins a long and tedious recovery process. With long-term damage to one of its organization’s goalkeepers, the Ducks need to move on quickly. Anaheim scrambles to sign veterans Oscar Dansk Occupy Suchanek’s position in San Diego Calle Clang.
Suchanek finally worked at a three-day development camp in Anaheim held at the fleet practice facility in Irvine, California earlier this month. vyacheslav tureyeets and Damian Clara.
“It’s great,” Suchanek said. “It’s really exciting. I’d love to go back to the ice.”
Anaheim has successfully developed a chartered goalkeeper in San Diego. Lukas DostalHe signed a five-year contract with the Ducks on Thursday, played 98 games with the Seagulls in three seasons and is ready to be No. 1 in Anaheim after last month’s deal John Gibson Detroit. In-depth map also includes veterans Petr Mrazek and Ville HussoIn addition to the 23-year-old Clock and Dingit and 20-year-old Clara.
Suchanek is the place for all of these combinations, he is the second-team All-Star in the Western Conference Hockey League, playing for Tri-city in 2022-23. That year, he also won the Czech Contest results at the IIHF World Youth Championship.
There are so many prospects in the pipeline, the Owls goalkeeper coach Jeff Grass Have comprehensive talent to manage. Competition will breed growth and fight against Gulls and their ECHL branches in Tulsa. The goalkeeper program in San Diego was upended late last summer, with the Owl struggling on the defensive end, eventually allowing 3.49 goals per game and putting AHL second.
Grass is familiar with what Suchanek is going through. Glass was Ottawa’s second-round draft pick, spent four seasons between the AHL and the ECHL before going to Europe for seven years. He didn’t reach the NHL until his 13th professional season, when he was 32 years old. He knew he needed to live with the young goalkeeper and live in person, and now he strengthened his patience as a coach.
Glass was pleased with what he saw from Suchanek, who effectively used his recovery time.
“Although he’s been off the game on the ice, we’ve seen a lot of things on the ice, and he’s done a lot of work,” Glass said. “He’s back with a new mind…he’s probably ahead of his position. It’s really exciting for someone like that, he’s ready. The grinding of the hockey season catches up with a guy and you have to leave for a while to really capture the fire.”
During the fifty years in the American Hockey League, Theahl.com writer Patrick Williams currently covers NHL.com and Flosports leagues and is a regular contributor to Siriusxm NHL New Network Radio. He won the AHL’s James H. Ellery Memorial Award for his outstanding league coverage in 2016.
