Canes Reassign Sutter to Albany of AHL
by go16canes on Mar 16, 2009 11:41 AM EDT
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PrintRALEIGH, NC—Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has reassigned center Brandon Sutter to the Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League (AHL).
Sutter, 20, netted three goals and earned an assist (4 points) in seven games during his first stint with Albany from Feb. 25-March 9. He earned a plus-2 plus/minus rating and scored a power-play goal and a shorthanded tally for the Rats. The Huntington, NY, native is in his first full professional season, and has notched one goal and earned five assists (6 points) in 50 games with the Hurricanes.
Sutter (6’3”, 183 lbs.) joined Carolina this season after completing his junior hockey career with the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League in 2007-08. He scored 68 goals and earned 86 assists (154 points) in 205 career regular-season games with Red Deer, before joining Albany for the end of the 2007-08 regular season and the River Rats’ playoff series against the Philadelphia Phantoms. Carolina drafted Sutter in the first round, 11th overall, in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft.
The Hurricanes return to action at the RBC Center on Wednesday, March 18, when they host the New Jersey Devils (7 p.m., FS Carolinas HD, Hurricanes Radio Network). Single-game tickets for all remaining Hurricanes regular-season games are available at the Time Warner Cable Box Office at the RBC Center, CarolinaHurricanes.com, by calling 1-800-745-3000 and at all Ticketmaster outlets. For information on Hurricanes ticket packages, call 1-866-NHL-CANES or visit www.CarolinaHurricanes.com.
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does anyone else wonder if this organization knows what it is doing with it’s young talent?
I can understand him being in Albany to get more playing time, but WTF was his callup for if all he was going to do was sit in the press box?
If a player will not be 20 years old by December 31st, he is not eligible to play in the AHL until his junior season is over. They sent Sutter down for the 2 week conditioning stint so he could get a head start, then had to call him back up for a few days until Red Deer’s season ended last week, at which point they were allowed to send him back down for good.
too bad
i totally agree…
why would you call some one up if ur just gonna send them back down…
i was looking forward to seeing him play after he got back from that conditioning stint in albany…
Waivers
Sutter can’t stay in Albany for more than two weeks in a row or else he will have to be placed on waivers.
Still not a crook!
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