Ryan Smith

ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Re-Sign Smith, Add Boomhower

The Adirondack Thunder have announced that they have signed Shaw Boomhower and re-signed Ryan Smith to contracts for the 2024-25 season. Prior to joining the Thunder, the 25-year-old forward had played in 95 ECHL games with the Cincinnati Cyclones, Kalamazoo Wings, and Wheeling Nailers, where he’s put up 12 goals, and 16 assists for 28 […]

ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Announce 2024 Qualifying Offers

The Adirondack Thunder have announced that they have given eight players qualifying offers, which is the league’s maximum. Two of those eight players have already decided to take the overseas route. Players who have already signed for the 2024-25 season don’t need to be given qualifying offers. Here are the rules of the qualifying offers: […]

ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Announce 2024 Season-Ending Roster

The Adirondack Thunder have officially released their 2024 Season-Ending Roster of 20 players following their announcement earlier this week that they were protecting 23 players. Each team is allowed to protect a maximum of 20 players and reserve the rights to eight players; no more than four can be veterans. The ECHL considers any player […]

ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Announce 2024 Protected List

The Adirondack Thunder have announced that they will be protecting 23 players on this year’s protected list. 20 of the 23 players that the Thunder protected played at least one game with the team over the course of the team’s historic 2023-24 season, and six of the 23 players either spent the 2023-24 season overseas […]

ECHL Eastern Conference Finals: Adirondack Thunder vs Florida Everblades Game 5 | 05/25/2024

The Florida Everblades came into Saturday Night with a chance to clinch a spot in the Kelly Cup Finals with a win, and the Adirondack Thunder were just looking to send this series back to Glens Falls for a Game 6 on Tuesday Night. One of the big factors of the series is that both […]

ECHL Takeaways: Florida Everblades vs. Adirondack Thunder Games 1&2

The first two games of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Adirondack Thunder and Florida Everblades are in the books, with the games played on Friday and Saturday night in Glens Falls, N.Y. The series is tied 1-1, with the Everblades winning game one, 2-1, and the Thunder bouncing back for the win in game […]

ECHL Eastern Conference Finals Recap: Adirondack Thunder vs Florida Everblades Game 2 | 05/18/2024

It was a pivotal Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Saturday Night as the Adirondack Thunder were looking to tie up the series at one instead of having a repeat of the Norfolk series in which they were down 0-2 after dropping the first two at home. Adirondack had a lot better of […]

ECHL Eastern Conference Recap: Adirondack Thunder vs Florida Everblades Game 1 | 05/17/2024

The Adirondack Thunder and Florida Everblades met for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Friday Night. Despite Florida being the fourth seed in the South Division for the second straight season and Adirondack being the Eastern Conference Champions, this series has the makings to be tightly contested, and that’s exactly what we got […]

ECHL Conference Finals Preview: Adirondack Thunder vs Florida Everblades

The Adirondack Thunder and Florida Everblades will meet in the Eastern Conference Finals, a rematch of the 2018 Eastern Conference Finals, in which the Everblades defeated the Thunder in five games; Adirondack was also the top seed in the North Division in 2018. Adirondack and Florida met six times during the regular season, with Florida […]

ECHL Playoff Series Recap: Adirondack Thunder vs Norfolk Admirals | Round 2

The Adirondack Thunder and Norfolk Admirals met in the North Division Finals in a highly anticipated seven-game series. Adirondack and Norfolk finished in the top two spots of the North Division, with the Thunder taking the top seed not only in the division but also in the conference. It was expected that it would easily […]