T.J. Friedmann

ECHL: 2025-26 Qualifying Offers | Adirondack Thunder

The Adirondack Thunder are staying busy on Tuesday afternoon, as they’ve announced their head coach and assistant coach, and have now extended qualifying offers to six players. Qualifying offers were due at 11:59 last night. Of the six players given qualifying offers, two of them have already signed to play overseas next season. Teams are […]

ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Announce 2024-25 Season-Ending Roster

The Adirondack Thunder relieved their 2024-25 season-ending roster on Monday afternoon, which consisted of 12 forwards, seven defenseman, and one goaltender. Per the ECHL, Season-Ending Rosters may include up to 20 players. Season-Ending Rosters cannot include any players who did not sign an ECHL contract in 2024-25. Adirondack Thunder Protected List Forwards (12) – Caden […]

ECHL: 2024-2025 Protected Lists | Adirondack Thunder

The ECHL Off-Season officially kicked off on Sunday afternoon. Each team was required to submit their protected lists to the league by 3 PM. The Adirondack Thunder decided to protect 28 players. Along with those players, Shaw Boomhower has already announced his retirement. Rules of the Protected List ECHL teams are permitted to protect an […]

ECHL Game Recap: Maine Mariners vs Adirondack Thunder | 03/15/2025

The Adirondack Thunder and Maine Mariners met on Saturday night for the second of two games on the weekend, as it was Kids Day in Adirondack. It’s only fitting that Kaleb Ergang, the newest member of the Thunder, got the party started, scoring just 58 seconds after the opening faceoff to get the crowd going. […]

ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Transactions | 03/13/2025

The Adirondack Thunder made a few transactions on Thursday, as they had two players called up to Utica and are expecting one player back from reserve. I still expect Adirondack to make at least one more roster move so that they can field a full lineup. Jackson van de Leest and Dylan Wendt Called Up […]

ECHL Game Recap: Adirondack Thunder vs. Wheeling Nailers | 03/01/2025

The Adirondack Thunder were looking to change their luck as they’d begun their season-long road trip with a 1-3-1 record through the first five games. On Friday, it would be a fight that kicked off the game just five seconds in, and on Saturday Night, it would be Josh Filmon who got the party started […]

ECHL Game Recap: Adirondack Thunder vs Tahoe Knight Monsters | 02/06/2025

The Adirondack Thunder kicked off a three-game series in State Line, Nevada, against the Tahoe Knight Monsters (they’ve re-branded to the Tahoe Golden Monsters as part of affiliation Weekend). Before the game began, both teams would lose a skater late as Logan Nelson and Ryan Francis were both late scratches, and there’s been no update […]

ECHL Game Recap: Adirondack Thunder vs Reading Royals | 02/02/2025

The Adirondack Thunder surpassed their win total from January, and it would take them just two days to do so. This season, slow starts have been the Thunder’s kryptonite, but on Sunday, Adirondack would get on the board first as Jackson van de Leest threw a puck towards the net that Dylan Wendt would deflect […]

ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Transactions | 12/18/2024

The Adirondack Thunder made a few more transactions on Wednesday as they continue to shuffle around the roster before the weekend series vs Reading Royals, including activating Josh Filmon from reserve after being a healthy scratch on Saturday Night. I would expect to see a few more moves from Adirondack before the weekend series begins. […]

ECHL Game Recap: Trois-Rivieres Lions vs Adirondack Thunder | 11/02/2024

The Adirondack Thunder and Trois-Rivieres Lions met up for the second time in two weeks, this time North of the border in Trois-Rivieres. For the second straight game, it would be the Thunder who got on the board first as T.J. Friedmann would put home a rebound past Zachary Emond to give the Thunder a […]