Steelheads add Baum, Holmes

Action photos of Jeff Baum and Robbie Holmes

BOISE, Idaho – The Idaho Steelheads, ECHL affiliate of the Dallas Stars, announced that the club has signed defenseman Jeff Baum and forward Robbie Holmes to contracts for the 2025-26 season.

Baum enters his fifth professional season, first in North America, after spending the last four seasons with the Belfast Giants of the Elite Ice Hockey League. During his tenure with the Giants, he captured the EIHL regular-season championship and was an EIHL Cup champion three times (2022, 2023 and 2025). The 29-year-old served as an alternate captain last season notching 18 points (5g-13a) in 51 games. Across his time with Belfast, he appeared in 239 career games accumulating 68 points (15g-53a).

Prior to professional hockey, Baum played three seasons of collegiate hockey at American International College from 2018-21, helping the Yellow Jackets to three American Hockey Association regular-season championships and two AHA Tournament championships. He spent the 2017-18 season at Providence College. After two seasons in the North American Hockey League with the Wichita Falls Wildcats from 2014-16, he spent his last year of junior hockey in the United States Hockey League, serving as an alternate captain with the Dubuque Fighting Saints in 2016-17.

Holmes enters his first professional season after spending the last four seasons at Mount Royal University, where he appeared in 88 career games notching 78 points (41g-37a). The 26-year-old played one game with the Kansas City Mavericks during the 2020-21 season after playing four full seasons in the Western Hockey League. The Sarepta, Alberta native skated in 231 career WHL games totaling 114 points (51g-63a) playing with the Regina Pats and Everett Silvertips from 2016-20.