Mariners re-sign Cammarata

PORTLAND, Maine – The Maine Mariners announced the team has re-signed Taylor Cammarata for the 2019-20 season.

The Mariners are the ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League's New York Rangers and the American Hockey League's Hartford Wolf Pack.

In his second professioinal season in 2018-19, Cammarata spent time in Norfolk, Wichita and Maine. In a total of 73 games between the three teams, Cammarata put up 56 points (24g-32a). With the Mariners, Cammarata had 22 points (10g-12a) in 21 games. He finished the season red hot, scoring seven goals in his last five games, sparked by a hat trick against Adirondack on March 31.

Cammarata’s professional career began in 2017-18 when he played for the South Carolina Stingrays. He finished the season with 30 points in 42 games and was an ECHL All-Star, winning MVP of the 2018 All-Star Classic.

An alumnus of the University of Minnesota, Cammarata racked up the accolades in junior hockey as well, including being named USA Hockey Player of the Year and United States Hockey League Player of the Year in 2012-13, when he registered 93 points in in 59 games for the Waterloo Black Hawks. He was the USHL’s Rookie of the Year the season prior.

Now 24-years-old, Cammarata was chosen in the third round (76th overall) of the 2013 NHL Draft by the New York Islanders.