The Nashville Predators have recalled Juuse Saros back to the NHL and reassigned Anders Lindbäck to the Milwaukee Admirals. In addition, Jake Paterson and Matt O’Connor will trade places once again between the Quad City Mallards of the ECHL and the Admirals.
Adam Pardy has officially signed with Frölunda HC of the Swedish Hockey League. Pardy had been a free agent for the start of the 2017-18 season until finally securing this deal. He played with the Milwaukee Admirals and Nashville Predators last season.
Joonas Lyytinen has officially been reassigned by the Nashville Predators back to the Milwaukee Admirals. The Finnish defenseman had been playing for the Atlanta Gladiators in the ECHL for the past week. He scored a goal and an assist while recording five shots on goal in last night’s 6-2 win for Atlanta.
The American Hockey League have officially announced this year’s rosters for the 2018 AHL All-Star Classic. The Milwaukee Admirals will have two representatives this year in Utica, New York as both Anders Lindbäck and Emil Pettersson have been selected for the Central Division All-Stars.
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Last night, Bobby Butler recorded the 100th goal of his AHL playing career. Today he has been announced as part of Team USA’s preliminary roster for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
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The Nashville Predators have recalled Frédérick Gaudreau from the Milwaukee Admirals. The roster move comes fresh off of Gaudreau recording a game-winning goal in the Admirals 3-2 shootout victory against the Chicago Wolves at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena last night.
Ahead of tonight’s game there is a roster move to announce. Joonas Lyytinen has been reassigned to the Atlanta Gladiators of the ECHL from the Milwaukee Admirals. He will join fellow Admirals defenseman Rick Pinkston who also plays for Atlanta following the termination of the ECHL affiliation agreement between the Nashville Predators and Norfolk Admirals.
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The Nashville Predators have reassigned goaltender Matt O’Connor from the Atlanta Gladiators to the Quad City Mallards. This ECHL to ECHL flip could be a slight trend this season while the Predators organization will act without an ECHL affiliate after terminating their agreement with the Norfolk Admirals. O’Connor had appeared four times with the Gladiators prior to this move.
The Nashville Predators have recalled Juuse Saros and reassigned Anders Lindbäck from the Milwaukee Admirals. This is the second time in two weekends that the Predators put Saros into road games with the Admirals before calling him back up to the NHL. Saros has lost all four appearances with the Admirals and Lindbäck has yet to make an NHL appearance to date.
The Nashville Predators have recalled Anders Lindbäck and reassigned Juuse Saros to the Milwaukee Admirals. This is the second time that the organization has flipped both goaltenders. The Predators host the Vancouver Canucks tonight at the Bridgestone Arena. Meanwhile, the Admirals are set for a Friday-Saturday clash against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and Hershey Bears.
Press Release via Nashville Predators:
Nashville, Tenn. (November 30, 2017) – Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced Thursday that the club has recalled goaltender Anders Lindback from the American Hockey League’s Milwaukee Admirals. Additionally, the club has reassigned goaltender Juuse Saros to Milwaukee.
Lindback leads the AHL in wins with 11 and is seventh in save percentage with a .925 mark. He’s posted a 2.32 goals-against average and 11-4-0 record in 15 starts to go with one shutout for the Admirals this season, who sit in second place in the AHL’s Central Division. Lindback began the AHL campaign with five consecutive victories and made 40 saves in his last start with Milwaukee on Nov. 28, leading the Admirals to a 4-2 win over the Iowa Wild.
Originally drafted by the Predators in the seventh round (207th overall) in the 2008 NHL Draft, Lindback returned to Nashville this summer after signing a one-year contract. The Gavle, Sweden, native spent two seasons with the Predators from 2010-12, going 28-16-13 with a 2.53 goals-against average, .914 save percentage and two shutouts in 38 games. The 6-foot-6 goaltender spent last season with Rogle BK of the Swedish Hockey League, where he posted a .916 save percentage in 23 games. Lindback has a 45-58-8 record in 130 career NHL games with Nashville, Tampa Bay, Buffalo, Dallas and Arizona.
Much like the first happenstance with these two switching places: it is not clear if this move is for the weekend or for an extended amount of time. On the first occurrence Saros stepped in for a weekend road trip with the Admirals as they faced, and lost, to the Cleveland Monsters. Saros stopped 45/52 shots in the pair of games with the Admirals. He was backing up the team at one of the rougher stretches of the season for them to date.
Saros has since made a single start for the Predators. He took a shootout loss on the road against the Carolina Hurricanes. That was his first shootout loss in his North American professional playing career as he had previously gone on a run of five wins in five AHL shootout appearances while only allowing a single shootout goal from sixteen attempts.
What are your thoughts on this goalie switch? Should this be made a more permanent move or is this once again a temporary “for the weekend” switch?
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