Columbus Blue Jackets Sign Forward Cody Bass, Goaltender Jeremy Smith To One-Year, Two-Way Contracts
Published on July 5, 2013 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Springfield Falcons News Release
COLUMBUS, OHIO - The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed forward Cody Bass and goaltender Jeremy Smith to one-year, two-way (NHL/AHL) contracts for the 2013-14 season, club General Manager Jarmo Kekalainen announced today. As is club policy, terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Bass, 26, appeared in 18 games with the American Hockey League's Springfield Falcons in 2012-13, tallying 2-5-7 with 54 penalty minutes and a +4 plus/minus rating. Signed by Columbus as a free agent on July 12, 2011, he has appeared in 48 career NHL games with the Blue Jackets and Ottawa Senators, recording 2-3-5, 66 penalty minutes and 50 hits.
Ottawa's third pick, 95th overall, at the 2005 NHL Draft, Bass has appeared in 212 career AHL games with Springfield and Binghamton, registering 23-34-57 and 413 penalty minutes. He won the Calder Cup with Binghamton in 2011, the same year he received the Yanick Dupre Memorial Award as the AHL's Man of the Year.
Nashville's second pick, 54th over all, at the 2007 NHL Draft, Smith has spent the past three seasons with the AHL's Milwaukee Admirals after backstopping the ECHL's Cincinnati Cyclones to a Kelly Cup Championship in 2009-10. The 24-year-old has a career AHL record of 66-46-7 with a 2.39 GAA, .916 SV% and eight shutouts in 128 games with Milwaukee.
A native of Dearborn, Michigan, Smith represented the United States at the 2008 IIHF World Junior Championships, registering four wins, a 2.40 GAA and .894 SV% in six games. As a member of the Ontario Hockey League's Plymouth Whalers in 2007-08, Smith was the co-recipient of the Dave Pinkney Trophy in recognition of having recorded the league's lowest team GAA and also captured the J. Ross Robertson Cup as O HL champs.
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