The Tahoe Knight Monsters have announced that they have signed winger Troy Loggins to a contract for the 2024-25 season. Loggins, 29, has not played in North America since the 2020-21 season would take the 2021-22 season off and has spent the last two seasons playing in Sweden and Slovakia. In 27 games in Sweden, he put up nine goals and five assists for 14 points in 27 games before heading to Slovakia where he has spent the last year plus playing with HC Nove Zamky. In 52 games with Nove Zamky, he’s put up 28 goals and 10 assists for 38 points in 52 games and would lead the league in PP goals last season (11). For the Knight Monsters, Loggins should be a big part of the Knight Monsters PP and should be a guy that should start the season in the middle six for Tahoe.
Prior to going overseas, the 29-year-old forward would spend a year in the USHL, where he put up 14 goals and 21 assists for 35 points, along with 97 minutes in 52 games with the Sioux Falls Stampede. He would go off in the Clark Cup Playoffs, putting up 10 goals and six assists for 16 points in 12 games as the Stampede would win the Clark Cup, and Loggins would be named MVP. The Huntington Beach, California, would then spend four seasons at Northern Michigan University, where he would put up 56 goals and 50 assists for 106 points in 136 games. He would be named Player of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year and would lead the league in goals as he put up 23 goals and 17 assists for 40 points in 39 games; he also had 23 goals the year prior.
Loggins pro career would begin with the Grand Rapids Griffins as he would play in four games with the team at the end of the 2018-19 season and would net his first pro goal in just his second professional game. He would spend the next two seasons with the Griffins and the Toledo Walleye, putting up five goals and five assists for 10 points in 37 games at the AHL level, and would put up 11 goals and 14 assists for 25 points in 45 games with the Walleye.
