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Mallards Sign Kostadine

August 3, 2010 - Central Hockey League (CHL)
Quad City Mallards News Release


MOLINE, Ill. (August 3, 2010) - The Quad City Mallards of the "AA" Central Hockey League announced today that they have signed right wing Jason Kostadine for the 2010-11 season. Per club policy, no contract terms were announced.

Kostadine, 26, scored once and added five assists while collecting 179 penalty minutes in 59 games with the International Hockey League's Port Huron Icehawks last season. Kostadine has accumulated 135 or more minutes in penalties in each of the last three seasons and in five of his first six pro campaigns.

"Jason is an experienced, gritty winger who plays hard and is a team first guy," said Mallards Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations Frank Anzalone. "He plays tough and will lend leadership to our group."

Before returning to North America with the Icehawks last season, Kostadine played in Britain's Elite Ice Hockey League with the Hull Stingrays in 2008-09. The 6' 2", 210-pound St. Louis native spent his first four years in the ECHL, where he suited up for the Texas Wildcatters, Stockton Thunder, Reading Royals, Augusta Lynx and Bakersfield Condors. As a rookie with the Wildcatters in 2004-05 he set a career high for penalty minutes in a season by piling up 224 minutes in the box.

Over the course of his career Kostadine has scored 27 goals, produced 71 points and run up 951 penalty minutes in 338 games.

Before turning pro, Kostadine played for the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Hull Olympiques for two seasons and completed his junior career by taking to the ice with the Quebec Remparts in 2002-03. He topped 200 penalty minutes in each of his final two junior seasons and registered 18 goals, 54 points and a total of 605 PIM's in 195 career games in the QMJHL. Kostadine was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in the eighth round of the 2002 National Hockey League Draft with the two hundred fifty-first overall pick.

Kostadine joins Nick DeCroo, Jason Dolgy, Patrik Levesque, Shane Lovdahl, Brandon Marino and Ryan Palmer to bring the number of players signed by the Mallards' for 2010-11 to seven.

The Mallards will open their first CHL season on home ice on Saturday night, October 16, at 7:05 p.m. against the Odessa Jackalopes. Mallards 2010-11 ticket packages are now available to meet any budget or schedule. For more information on ticket packages for the upcoming season, contact the Mallards at (309) 277-1364. Single game seats will go on sale in the fall on a date to be announced.

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