Canadian goaltender
Dylan Ferguson, 26, has signed a one-year contract with HK Nitra, the
Slovak Extraliga
club announced on Thursday.
Ferguson
spent last season in the Minnesota
Wild organization, where he dressed as a backup but did not see
any NHL action, spending the season with the AHL's Iowa Wild. He has been in several NHL organizations but has only
three games to his credit.
Ferguson
was born in Lantzville, BC on Vancouver Island, but played
high-school hockey for the famed Notre Dame Hounds in Saskatchewan
and then junior hockey for the WHL’s
Kamloops Blazers.
Ferguson
was drafted by the Dallas Stars
in the seventh round, 194th overall, in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft, and
then traded two days later to the expansion Vegas
Golden Knights in exchange for defenseman Marc Methot. In the
following season, Ferguson made his first NHL appearance after the
Knights had a run of injuries in goal – allowing one goal on two
shots in 9:14 of action in relief against the Edmonton
Oilers on Nov. 14, 2017.
Two Days After Signing In KHL, Sokolov Traded For NHL Free Agent
Two days after signing with CSKA Moscow, Russian winger Egor Sokolov
has been traded to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, the CSKA club announced
on Thursday.
Between
2019 and 2023, Ferguson played in the Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa
Senators organizations, playing two more NHL games for Ottawa in
March 2023.
Ferguson
spent the 2023-24 season playing for Belarus-based KHL club Dinamo
Minsk. He then returned to North America the following season, first
attending the Vancouver Canucks training camp before signing with
Minnesota.
Ferguson
joins a Nitra club that won the Slovak title in 2023-24 and lost in
the finals last season. Notable players on the team’s roster
include 44-year-old
defenseman Branislav Mezei and 20-year-old left winger Ondrej
Molnár, who spent the past two seasons in the
OHL.
Photo © Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images.
Branislav Mezei Re-Signs With Hometown Club For Pro Season No. 26
Slovak defenseman Branislav Mezei, 44, has signed a one-year contract
extension with his hometown club, HK Nitra, to play what will be his
26th season of professional hockey, the Slovak Extraliga club
announced on Saturday.
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