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Thompson heads to Rapid City

Thompson heads to Rapid City

Thursday, August 20th

RAPID CITY, S.D. – The Rapid City Rush, ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League’s Arizona Coyotes, announced that forward Tayler Thompson has signed with the team for the 2020-21 Season.

Thompson comes to the Rush after splitting the 2019-20 season between the 2nd Czech Republic Hockey League and the ECHL. He began with the Czech2 club Pirati Chomutov, earning a goal in four games before returning to the United States to finish the season with the Orlando Solar Bears. He posted 19 points (8g-11a) in 45 games with Orlando.

A native of Bredenbury, Saskatchewan, Thompson enters his sixth season of professional hockey, and his fourth in the ECHL. His career has taken him all over the world, with stops in France, the Czech Republic and United States in the Southern Professional Hockey League and ECHL. In his ECHL career, Thompson has 42 points (16g-26a) in 124 games with the Solar Bears and the Norfolk Admirals. As a second-year professional in 2016-17, he led the SPHL with 42 assists and 60 points as a member of the Fayetteville FireAntz, and was named an SPHL First-Team All-Star.

Prior to turning professional, Thompson played four seasons in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League with the Yorkton Terriers, winning back-to-back SJHL Championships in 2013 and 2014, in addition to the 2014 RBC Cup Championship. Additionally, he played for the Western Hockey League’s Prince George Cougars for two seasons, and spent one year at the University of Saskatchewan.