The Indy Fuel have announced that they’ve signed winger Dustin Manz for the 2025-26 season. The 25-year-old forward spent the 2024-25 season with the Wheeling Nailers, Rapid City Rush, and Bloomington Bison. He would put up three goals and five assists for eight points in 45 games. Manz becomes the 14th signing for the Fuel this season.
Dustin Manz would spend his junior career in the NAHL and BCHL. In his only season in the NAHL, he would put up four goals and 12 assists for 16 points in 56 games. He would add three goals and an assist for four points in 12 Playoff games. Manz would then spend two years in the BCHL with the Prince George Spruce Kings, where he had 49 goals and 72 assists for 121 points in 128 games. During the 2018-19 season, Manz led the Spruce Kings to a BCHL championship, scoring 33 goals and 37 assists for 70 points in 58 games. He would add seven goals and four assists for 11 points in 17 postseason games in 2019.
The Vanderbilt, Michigan native would then take the NCAA route once his junior career ended. He spent his first three seasons at Lake Superior State University, where he put up 11 goals and 19 assists for 30 points in 103 games. Manz would spend his final season of eligibility at American International College, where he had 17 goals and 38 assists for 55 points in 78 games. Manz would make his pro debut at the end of the 2023-24 season, where he put up two goals in six games with the Nailers at the end of the season.
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