CHL Notes: IceRays sign all-star forward Quenneville

By Journal staff | Sunday, August 03, 2008

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RAPID CITY — Corpus Christi IceRays General Manager Pat Dunn announced on Friday that the team has inked all-star forward Justin Quenneville for the upcoming campaign.

The Montreal native has put up 130 points (57 goals, 73 assists) in 110 games played for the IceRays over the past two seasons.

He has also contributed four goals and three assists in 12 career CHL playoff games.

- The Rocky Mountain Rage, of Broomfield, Colo., signed right winger John Snowden, who is entering his sixth year as a pro having spent most of his career in the ECHL.

The native of Snohomish, Wash., and former member of the U.S. National Junior Team was named an ECHL All-Star during his rookie season with the Texas Wildcatters in 2003-04 before tallying a career-high 37 goals during his second year with Texas in 2004-05.

- The Tulsa Oilers have re-signed center Brendon Hodge (younger brother to Coach Dan Hodge) and have also added left winger Michel Beausoleil, a two time 40-goal scorer in the Central Hockey League.

The younger Hodge is entering his sixth professional season and second with the Oilers. He was limited to just 35 games last year after suffering a knee injury at Bossier-Shreveport in the Oilers seventh game of the season. Still he managed nearly a point a game, with 13 goals and 17 assists for 30 points.

Beausoleil, a veteran of seven professional seasons played last year for the Flint Generals of the International Hockey League, leading the team in scoring with 36 goals and 46 assists for 82 points in 76 games.

- The 2008 Central Hockey League Ray Miron President’s Cup Champion Arizona Sundogs re-signed forwards Tyler Liebel and Rob Lehtinen and defenseman Matt Suderman.

In 25 games with the Thunder prior to joining the Sundogs, Liebel collected 11 points (5g/6a) and 79 penalty minutes. The 5-foot-10, 185-pound winger registered 29 points (11g/18a) in 35 games, and tallied seven points (3g/4a) and 32 PIM during the playoffs to help the Sundogs to their first-ever Ray Miron President’s Cup title.

Rob Lehtinen, 25, returns to the Sundogs after his first full season as a professional in 2007-08. In 63 regular season contests, the Marquette, Michigan, native notched 22 points (7g/15a) and 36 PIM while splitting time between offense and defense.

Suderman returns for the 2008-09 campaign after becoming just one of three Sundogs players to appear in all 64 regular season contests during the 2007-08 season. The former seventh round (199th overall) draft pick of the Atlanta Thrashers notched seven assists and 117 penalty minutes during the regular season and added one goal and 54 PIM in 17 postseason games.

- Mississippi RiverKings acquired center Mike Tuomi, from the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees. Tuomi split time between the Killer Bees and Pensacola of the ECHL last year, with the majority of his time being spent with Rio Grande Valley. In 45 appearances with RGV, Mike scored 11 goals and added 13 assists for 24 points with 37 penalty minutes.

- The Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees introduced Chris Brooks as the team’s new head coach and director of hockey operations.

Brooks, 36, joins the Bees from Western Michigan University, where he served for the last nine years. He began his career with the Broncos as an assistant coach and was promoted to associate head coach in 2006.

- Gordon Bell, acquired earlier this week by the Amarillo Gorillas from Oklahoma City, has officially signed with Amarillo for the 2008-09 season. Bell joins Brian Bicek, Simon Nielsen, and John Hooks as signees under head coach Tom Coolen.

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