Allen Americans

ECHL: Allen Americans Announce Their End of Season Roster

The Allen Americans, along with the rest of the ECHL, have announced their end-of-season rosters. Teams are allowed to have up to 20 players on their end-of-season roster. Allen’s roster consists of nine forwards, nine defensemen, and one goaltender. Of these 20 players, the Americans can reserve the rights of the players and give eight […]

ECHL: Allen Americans Future Considerations Deadline Recap 2024

The Future Considerations deadline for the 2023-24 ECHL season was June 20 at 2 pm CST. The Allen Americans were the most active team in the ECHL, completing five future consideration deals. Grant Hebert The Allen Americans traded forward Grant Hebert to the Reading Royals on November 10, 2023, to complete the future considerations from […]

ECHL: Rapid City Rush Complete 2023-24 Season Future Consideration

The Future Considerations deadline for the 2023-24 ECHL season was June 20 at 1 pm MST. The Rapid City Rush were not extremely active but they did receive the rights to one player. The Rapid City Rush acquired the rights to forward Jordan-Ty Fournier from the Allen Americans to complete the future consideration trade that […]

ECHL: Reading Royals Complete Future Considerations

It’s the first of a few important upcoming dates for the ECHL and teams are starting to complete trades from the past season called Future Considerations. The Reading Royals have announced their list. Royals will receive one player and deal three players Receiving: Grant Hebert: Reading Royals will receive forward Grant Hebert from Allen Americans. […]

ECHL: Liam Finlay Heading Overseas

Forward Liam Finlay is heading overseas to Scotland after spending just two seasons with the Allen Americans, where he would put up 44 goals and 45 assists for 89 points in 80 games. The 27-year-old winger would have a fantastic rookie year in which he would put up 33 goals and 37 assists for 70 […]

ECHL: Allen Americans Name BJ Adams as Head Coach

The Allen Americans have announced that they have hired BJ Adams as their Head Coach and General Manager less than two weeks after they fired Chad Costello, the team has yet to disclose any news on an assistant coach for next season. Prior to joining the Americans, Adams had spent eight seasons with the Erie […]

ECHL: Johnny Walker Announces Retirement

Forward Johnny Walker has announced his retirement from professional hockey via an Instagram post today after spending parts of three seasons in the ECHL with the Utah Grizzlies and Allen Americans. In 65 regular season games in the ECHL, he would put up 19 goals and 13 assists for 32 points, along with 303 penalty […]

ECHL: Allen Americans Fire Head Coach Chad Costello

The Allen Americans have announced that they have fired Head Coach/General Manager Chad Costello after two seasons with the team; he had just finished the second year of his three-year deal that he signed back in May of 2022. In two seasons under Costello, the team put up a record of 70-67-5-2 and has now […]

ECHL: Tulsa Oilers 2023-24 Season Recap

The Tulsa Oilers’ bittersweet season ended with a 2-1 loss to the Kansas City Mavericks on April 22nd. Bitter because the Oilers were swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Brabham Cup-winning Mavericks, the Brabham Cup is awarded to the team with the most points in the regular season. Sweet because the […]

ECHL: NHL Teams Without An ECHL Affiliate

With two new teams on the horizon for the ECHL, Bloomington Bison and Tahoe Knight Monsters, it leaves those in the hockey world, wondering, who are the NHL affiliates of these two teams? Here is the thing, five teams in the NHL DO NOT have an ECHL affiliate. Having an NHL affiliate helps those teams […]