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Fuel re-sign four players

Wednesday, July 31st
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INDIANAPOLIS - The Indy Fuel announced that they have re-signed forwards Andrew Bellant, Matus Spodniak, Darby Llewellyn and Jordan Martin to contracts for the 2024-25 season. 

Last season, Bellant scored 40 points in 68 games as well as two points in five games during the playoffs. In the 2022-23 season, Bellant skated in 64 games for the Fuel and collected 27 points and 34 penalty minutes. Prior to that, he played five games for the Knoxville Ice Bears of the Southern Professional Hockey League where he scored seven points. Bellant initially came to the Fuel in the 2021-22 season, notching two points in 13 games. While in Knoxville that season, he averaged over a point per game, scoring 40 in 36 games.

Prior to turning pro, he played two seasons at Adrian College, scoring 65 points across 49 games.

Last season, Spodniak scored 20 points in 48 games with the Fuel and tallied one assist in two games in the playoffs. He joined the Fuel from Adrian College at the end of the 2022-23 season where he played four games and tallied one goal. 

He played the prior two seasons at Adrian, tallying 94 points in 60 games. During the 2022-23 season, the Kosice, Slovakia native led the Bulldogs in points with 57. During that season, he also won the NCHA Player of the Year Award, USCHO Player of the Year Award and Sid Watson Award all given to the best NCAA DIII player of the year.

Prior to his time at Adrian, Spodniak attended the American International College for three seasons where he played in seven games. Before starting his collegiate career, Spodniak played three seasons for the Ogden Mustangs of the Western States Hockey League. 

Darby Llewellyn rejoins the Fuel after a 21-game season last year where he scored three points and tallied 21 penalty minutes. The Fuel claimed Llewellyn off of waivers from the Kalamazoo Wings in March of 2023, where he played seven games for Indy after 54 games for Kalamazoo. Prior to that, the 28-year-old played in Norway and Sweden for the 2021-22 season, tallying 48 points in 31 games across two leagues. 

The Ann Arbor, Michigan native played 44 games for the Tulsa Oilers in the 2020-21 season where he tallied seven points and recorded 49 penalty minutes. Llewellyn has also played for the Rapid City Rush and Atlanta Gladiators in the ECHL. 

During his junior career, he five seasons for the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey League. He is third on the all-time games played list for the Rangers having appeared in 301 matches.

Jordan Martin rejoins the Fuel after playing 35 games for Fuel last year, where he scored eight points and collected 24 penalty minutes. Martin played 13 games with the Iowa Heartlanders and the Toledo Walleye during the 2022-23 season. He tallied three points. Prior to that, the 27-year-old played 41 games for the Birmingham Bulls of the SPHL where he scored 14 goals and collected 21 points. He also posted a +20 +/- with the Bulls that season. 

The Winnipeg native also played 14 games for Birmingham to end the 2021-22 season after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Superior. In those 14 games, Martin tallied six points. 

At the University of Wisconsin-Superior, he played 93 games through four years and collected 55 points and 106 penalty minutes. He majored in Exercise Science with a concentration in Community and Public Health Promotion while attending.

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