today 19:48
|
The extra-league club HK Dukla Ingem Michalovce hired 25-year-old American goalkeeper Devin Williams. His arrival is the reaction of the Dukla management to the end of cooperation with the Finnish goalkeeper Julius Pohjanoks. The club informed about it on social networks.
For Williams, Michalovce will be the first location outside North America. His career so far has been in lower overseas competitions. Before entering men’s hockey, he played in the Canadian OHL junior competition in the Erie Otters jersey, in which he was a teammate of the current NHL star Connor McDavid.
Since 2017, he has played four ECHL seasons in the Tulsa Oilers jersey. In the 2018/2019 season, he was the best of all ECHL goalkeepers with an average of 2.12 goals collected per match. At the beginning of the 2012/2013 season, he played in the prestigious Hlinka Gretzky Cup youth tournament.
Pohjanoksa came to Michalovce before the 2021/2022 season from the second highest Swedish competition. He was supposed to form a Finnish goalkeeper pair with Karolus Kaarleht in Dukla, but for health reasons he was not available to the team. Kaarlehto caught in all previous matches of the season, in the position of substitute was the Slovak goalkeeper Michal Vojvoda.
–
