Florida's Elynuik named Inglasco ECHL Player of the Week

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Action photo of Hudson Elynuik of the Florida Everblades

Hudson Elynuik of the Florida Everblades is the Inglasco ECHL Player of the Week for Dec. 1-7. He is the first player to receive the weekly award in consecutive weeks since Wheeling’s Cam Brown for the weeks ending Dec. 9 and Dec. 16, 2018.

Elynuik scored two goals and added five assists for seven points in three games at Norfolk last week.

The 28-year-old had a goal and an assist in an 8-4 win on Friday, dished out three assists in a 5-2 victory on Saturday and notched a goal and an assist in a 6-2 triumph on Sunday.

A native of Calgary, Alberta, Elynuik has 14 points (7g-7a) in eight games with the Everblades this season after beginning the season in Slovakia with Liptovsky Mikulas HK, where he had three points (2g-1a) in five games.

Elyniuk has totaled 45 points (17g-28a) in 43 career ECHL games with Florida, Rapid City and Newfoundland while adding 71 points (25g-46a) in 210 career American Hockey League games with Toronto, Tucson and Chicago.

Prior to turning pro, Elyniuk tallied 223 points (84g-139a) in 280 career games with Kootenay and Spokane of the Western Hockey League.

On behalf of Hudson Elynuik, a case of pucks will be donated to a Florida 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 53,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities.