The goaltending situation for the AHL's Hershey Bears has been anything but stable to start the 2023-24 campaign. Hunter Shepard, the 2023 Calder Cup playoffs MVP and regular number one netminder, has missed the team's first two games of the season with an illness. Shepard's absence has been compounded by the Washington Capitals having their…
May 07, 2021 - 7:34 PM
MONTREAL - Mads Sogaard made 26 saves for his third straight win to start his American Hockey League career as the Belleville Senators edged the Laval Rocket 4-3 on Friday.
The Ottawa Senators signed the 20-year-old Sogaard to a three-year, entry-level contract on April 13 after he wrapped up his first professional season back home in Denmark.
The Senators selected the six-foot-seven Dane in the second round of the 2019 draft following two successful years with the Western Hockey League s Medicine Hat Tigers.
Logan Brown, Colby Williams, Jean-Christophe Beaudin and Egor Sokolov scored for the Senators (13-15-1).
Jake Lucchini struck twice while Terrance Amoraso also scored for the Rocket (22-6-3), who were 5-0-1 in their last six before the loss.
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He posted a 10-5-1 record with a 2.58 goals-against average and a .922 save percentage as Esbjerg advanced to the league semifinal.
The six-foot-seven native of Aalborg, Denmark, spent the two previous campaigns with the Western Hockey League’s Medicine Hat Tigers and posted a major junior career best 21-13-2 record with four shutouts over 37 games in 2019-20.
He ranks 15th in franchise career wins with 40 over two seasons in Medicine Hat, and tied for fourth with seven shutouts.
Sogaard was the Senators’ second second-round pick (37th overall) at the 2019 NHL draft.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 13, 2021.