Florida’s Elynuik named ECHL Player of the Week | Pro Hockey News

Hudson Elynuik of the Florida Everblades is the Inglasco ECHL Player of the Week for December 1-7. He is the first player to receive the weekly award in consecutive weeks since Wheeling’s Cam Brown for the weeks ending December 9 and 16, 2018.

Elynuik scored two goals and added five assists for seven points in three games in Norfolk last week.

The 28-year-old scored a goal and an assist in an 8-4 win on Friday, dished out three assists in a 5-2 win on Saturday and scored a goal and an assist in a 6-2 win on Sunday.

Elynuik, a native of Calgary, Alberta, has 14 points (7g-7a) in eight games with the Everblades this season after starting the season in Slovakia with Liptovsky Mikulas HK, where he had three points (2g-1a) in five games.

Elyniuk has totaled 45 points (17g-28a) in 43 ECHL games with Florida, Rapid City and Newfoundland, while adding 71 points (25g-46a) in 210 American Hockey League games with Toronto, Tucson and Chicago.

Before turning pro, Elyniuk scored 223 points (84g-139a) in 280 career games with Kootenay and Spokane of the Western Hockey League.

A case of pucks will be donated on behalf of Hudson Elynuik to a youth hockey organization in Florida Inglascothe ECHL’s exclusive puck supplier. Since the beginning of the award’s sponsorship in 2000-2001, Inglasco has donated more than 53,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities.