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Adirondack's Szmatula named Inglasco/ECHL Player of the Week

Adirondack's Szmatula named Inglasco/ECHL Player of the Week

Tuesday, February 5th

Mike Szmatula of the Adirondack Thunder has been selected as the Inglasco ECHL Player of the Week for the week of Jan. 28-Feb. 3.

Szmatula scored five goals and added an assist for six points in three games last week.

The 26-year-old had two goals and an assist in a 6-0 win at Manchester on Wednesday, tallied the game-winning goal in a 4-2 victory against Reading on Friday and added a pair of goals in 5-3 loss at Maine on Saturday.

A native of Commerce Township, Michigan, Szmatula leads ECHL rookies with 20 goals and has added 14 assists for 34 points in 42 games this season. He added four points (2g-2a) as the Thunder's representative in the 2019 ECHL All-Star Classic.

Prior to turning pro, Szmatula recorded 68 points (28g-40a) in 73 career games at Northeastern University before finishing his collegiate career at the University of Minnesota where he had 40 points (19g-21a) in 66 career games.

On behalf of Mike Szmatula, a case of pucks will be donated to an Adirondack youth hockey organization by Inglasco, the exclusive puck supplier of the ECHL. Since beginning its sponsorship of the award in 2000-01, Inglasco has donated more than 39,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities.

Runners Up: Greg Wolfe, Toledo (3 gp, 2g, 3a, 5 pts.), Jake Marchment, Utah (4 gp, 3g, 3a, 6 pts.) and Tyler Barnes, Worcester (3 gp, 4g, 1a, 5 pts.).

Also Nominated: Matt Finn (Florida), Marco Roy (Fort Wayne), Alexander Dahl (Idaho), Kevin Dufour (Indy), Colby McAuley (Orlando), Chris McCarthy (Reading), Andrew Cherniwchan (South Carolina), Dylan Bredo (Tulsa) and Michael Phillips (Wheeling).