Vay Bound for Iowa
October 28, 2016 - ECHL (ECHL)
Quad City Mallards News Release
MOLINE, Ill. - Goaltender Adam Vay has been reassigned by the National Hockey League's Minnesota Wild from the Quad City Mallards to the American Hockey League's Iowa Wild and the Mallards have signed Jake Reed as an emergency backup goaltender, the Mallards announced today.
Vay, 22, has gone 2-1-0 with a 3.01 goals against average and a .895 save percentage in three games with the Mallards this season after being assigned to the team by Iowa on October 12.
Vay last season posted a 2.77 goals against average, a .926 save percentage and two shutouts in 39 games with the Hungarian club Debreceni HK in the MOL Liga. The 6-foot-5-inch, 209-pound Budapest native led the league in save percentage and finished fifth in goals against average. In May Vay represented Hungary at the 2016 International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship in Russia.
Vay has returned to North America after spending two highly successful seasons with the El Paso Rhinos in the junior A Western States Hockey League in 2013-14 and 2014-15. In his first season in the United States, Vay led the WSHL in goals against average (1.76), save percentage (.936) and shutouts (5) while going 25-1-0. He helped the Rhinos to both the 2014 WSHL Thorne Cup title and the junior A national title. The following season Vay and the Rhinos returned to the WSHL finals after Vay finished the regular season tied for third in the league in shutouts (5), third in save percentage (.923) and fourth in goals against average (2.03) and turned in a record of 28-4-0.
Reed, 22, twice served as the Mallards' emergency backup last season and has done so four times over the last two years. The 6-foot-2-inch, 190-pound Coal Valley native also acted as an emergency backup for the Wheeling Nailers and Cincinnati Cyclones last season.
The Mallards next play at home tomorrow night at 7:05 p.m. against the Tulsa Oilers. Game four of the World Series will be shown on the iWireless Center video wall during the Mallards' match-up with the Oilers. Fans wearing Chicago Cubs or Cleveland Indians apparel to tomorrow night's Mallards game will receive $5 off the price of a ticket for selected seats at the iWireless Center box office. Tomorrow night's game will also feature a Halloween costume contest- fans of all ages are invited to wear their scariest, funniest or freakiest costumes- as well as in-arena trick-or-treating for younger fans.
Single game tickets for all Mallards regular season home games- including tomorrow night's game- are on sale now at the iWireless Center box office, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and Ticketmaster charge-by-phone toll free at 1-800-745-3000. The box office is open weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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