Carlson rejoins Rush

RAPID CITY, S.D. – The Rapid City Rush, ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League’s Arizona Coyotes, announced that goaltender Adam Carlson has returned to the team for the 2020-21 season.

Carlson returns to the Rush after playing with the Jacksonville Icemen and the American Hockey League’s Manitoba Moose in the 2019-20 season. He appeared in two games with the Moose, and spent the remainder of the campaign in Jacksonville where he compiled a 19-15-3-1 record in 41 games with one shutout, a 3.07 goals-against average and an .898 save percentage.

Carlson played for the Rush in 2018-19, earning a 21-17-3-3 record in 45 games with a 2.91 goals-against average, .916 save percentage and four shutouts, the latter of which tied a single-season Rush record. Additionally, he earned two call-ups to the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals, and following the campaign, earned an AHL contract with Manitoba.

A native of Edina, Minnesota, Carlson enters his fifth season of professional hockey, and his second with the Rush. His professional career began with an entry-level NHL contract with the Washington Capitals in the 2016-17 season. Carlson’s career has taken him through the AHL with the Hershey Bears, Milwaukee Admirals and Manitoba Moose, and the ECHL with the South Carolina Stingrays, Indy Fuel, Kansas City Mavericks, Icemen and Rush. In his ECHL career, Carlson has amassed a record of 55-46-10-6 in 125 games with seven shutouts, a 2.93 goals-against average and a .906 save percentage.

Before turning professional, he played one season of NCAA hockey with Mercyhurst University and two seasons in the North American Hockey League with the Coulee Region Chill.