The Allen Americans added three more players to their 2025-26 selection yesterday, which brought the total number of players announced to 14. The players who were added yesterday were defenders Braidan Simmons-Fischer and Troy Murray, and Forward Malik Johnson. Here is the updated schedule of all with the assigned sweater numbers:
Goalkeepers
Defenders
- #22 Anthony Costantini
- #28 Troy Murray
- #43 Matt register
- #6 Braidan Simmin-Fischer
- #44 Kevin Spinozzi
- #9 Hudson Wilson
Ahead
- #26 Spencer Asuchak
- #18 Harrison Blaisdell
- #11 Thomas Caron
- #7 Colton Hargrove
- #76 Malik Johnson
- #77 Brad Morrison
- #29 Brayden Watts
– I had the chance to ask Steve Martinson how these three players fit into his plans, given that they played a total of 15 Echl games. This is what he has to say.
“When I all left after the 2021-22 season, one of the things I had the opportunity to do color commentary for the Rockford Icehogs. Many boys in the Echl who can play in the AHL if they get the chance.
“The same applies to players who go from the SPHL and FPHL to the Echl. Level. Even better is that games that are played in the SPHL and FPHL do not count for the Rookie -status in the Echl Johnson and Murray are experienced pro players who are considered Rookies.”
“When I started compiling the schedule, before I knew if we had a connection, I wanted to make sure that we had deep -end guys who could play, but physical players were who brought a lot of energy and understood their role. It appears that some of our top attackers are very physical players. Plus, the players we will get from our affiliate, but also too, but also too, but also too, but also too.” “
“It is safe to say that our team will be the most physical team this season that I have had in all. The three boys have announced today not only to complete their checks, but if they struck, they go straight through the players.
Player profiles
| BRIIDEN-SIMMONS-FICHER |
-Braidan Simmons-Fischer is a 23-year-old, 6’8 “, 234-pound, right-shot defender who signed at his hometown team after he left school last February. He comes from a hockey family. His father, Juri Fischer, played eight seasons with Detroit Red Wings and has a Devel Devel DevoPment Red Wings and has a Red Wings Devoopment and has a Red Wings Devoopment and has a Red Wings DevoPment. design choice of the St. Louis Blues in the NHL design of 2024.
Martinson op Braidan, “Soms duurt het een tijdje voor echt lange jongens om hun beste speler te worden, omdat er veel is om aan te passen en het kost tijd om zich te ontwikkelen. Zdeno Chara, de 6’9″ verdediger die speelde in 1680 NHL -games praat over gesneden van teams toen hij 16 jaar oud was toen hij 16 jaar oud was toen hij 16 jaar oud was toen hij 16 jaar oud was toen hij 16 jaar oud was toen hij 16 jaar oud was toen hij 16 jaar oud Was when he was 16 years old when he was 16 years old after being told that he was too long to play hockey. ”
Braidan skates well, he treats the puck well and he is tough. He has a lot of advantage, and in my opinion heaven is the limit. That is why he will attend the prospect tournament of our affiliated list, to ensure that they are not pushing anyone.
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| Malik Johnson |
-Malik Johnson is a 30-year-old, 6’1 ”, 192 pounds, left-shot attacker who played for Martinson last season in Athens, where he played 48 games and had 44 points (15 g, 29a) and 122 penalty minutes. Johnson was called to South Carolina, the top team in the Echl, for six games at the end of December last season. South Carolina -Coach, Jared Nightingale, who was recently selected as head coach in Rockford (AHL), had to say this about Johnson: “He has been excellent. I spoke with his coach, Steve Martinson; everyone in the hockey world knows Steve and all his success, and he also gave us a bit of us a bit of us, and he also gave us a bit of us a bit of us a little.”
Johnson played in 110 SPHL matches in his four-year professional career.
Martinson in Malik. “He is a good skater, he comes to the net and finishes every check. He is a good penalty murderer and he will be a favorite with fans in all.
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| Troy Murray |
-Troy Murray is a 27-year-old, 6’2, 220 pounds left-shot defender who played for Martinson in Athens last season. He had 11 points (3G, 8a) in 32 games. He was also called for nine games to the South Carolina -Puimrays, had no points but 50 penalty minutes. He also played 116 games in the SPHL during his five -year professional career.
Martinson’s comments about Murray: “He is a defender who can play ahead because he is a good skater. He is a defensive defender. He is the kind of player who is going to hit people hard, given the chance to go to people when he checks that he is a characteristic.
Other Martinson remarks
“I have talked about this earlier that my housing budget enables me to have a team that looks more like an NHL team. We don’t get many players from the affiliated parts, but those we get will be very good. The housing budget can sign me more players who play for all and it is to play more and play for all of them to play and play and play for the game and to play and play and to play and play and play for the game and to play and to play and play and to play and play and play for the game that game That I want to have a team where my depths are very difficult to play.
“I once had an AHL General Manager tell me that you can win with intimidation in the Echl, but it is harder to do in the AHL. My response to him was that I am not in the AHL.”
I’ll tell you now, we’re going to have an intimidating team. We will not be a team that can do something about one tough guy on the opposition. We are going to have top players who like to hit, and our depth guys even more. You have heard me say in the past that you need guys who wear the water and boys who chop the wood. We are going to have our top boys who carry the water and chop the wood. Our depth boys, just like the three that we announced yesterday, will be Wood Choppers extraordinaire. I know they can play, and I know they will be physical. “
“Tip of the defined spear, we will have a big spear with boys like Asuchak, Hargrove and Caron are goalcorers who play physically. Every” Rookie “I have the heavy style that our fans know and that we love.”
“Every year the pool of physical players becomes a little smaller. If you are dealing with the salary limit, you often look at first-year players to be the boys who bring the physical energy. With Rookies you never know for sure if they can be effective pro players.
“We have other players to announce and I will repeat myself.” We will have many players in training camp and it will be very competitive. Training camp is not the place to get in shape. The players who make the opening day schedule must show that they are ready to play, buy the style that we are going to play and are good teammates. “
“This will be the first time that I have ever coached a team with four lines, because the number of skaters was raised to 18 last season. That will make many different strategies possible.”
To close, you can expect that you will see more blog posts such as these, where I will interview coach Martinson, the players and team owner Myles Jack about the challenges of creating the right culture with a selection that has almost been fully overhauled.
Did you know: The hockey season is less than 60 days away. Help from NHL/AHL branches plays a major role in the Echl, both during the regular season and the Kelly Cup play -offs. Here are the regular season data for each competition:
Echl: October 17 – April 12 (30 teams play 1080 matches)
AHL: October 10 – April 19 (32 teams play 1152 games)
NHL: October 7 – April 16 (32 teams play 1312 matches)
NHL: 25 vs versus 7 Canada
AHL: 26 vs versus 6 Canada
Echl: 29 vs versus 1 Canada
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