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Netminder Vay Returns to Mallards

November 17, 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 American Hockey League's Iowa Wild to the Quad City Mallards, the Mallards announced today.

Vay, 22, served as backup goaltender without seeing any action in four games with Iowa after being reassigned to the Wild on November 7. That call-up was his second this season.

Vay has gone 2-2-0 with a 2.96 goals against average and a .879 save percentage in four games with the Mallards this season.

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.

The Mallards return to action tomorrow night on the road against the Fort Wayne Komets. The Mallards next play at home Saturday night at 7:05 p.m. against the Wheeling Nailers. Saturday night's game at the iWireless Center immediately follows Lighting on the Commons on nearby John Deere Commons in downtown Moline. Families attending Lighting on the Commons will receive vouchers for a free kids' ticket to the Mallards game with the purchase of an adult ticket. In addition, a portion of ticket proceeds from Saturday's game will go to the Salvation Army just as the Salvation Army's annual holiday Red Kettle Campaign kicks off.

Single game tickets for all Mallards regular season home games- including Saturday night's contest- 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.

About the Quad City Mallards

One of the winningest teams in all of minor league hockey, the Mallards competed in the United Hockey League from 1995 through 2007; in the International Hockey League in 2009-10; and in the Central Hockey League from 2010 through 2014. The Mallards' proud history has seen them capture the UHL's Colonial Cup Championship three times (1997, 1998, 2001) and secure that league's Tarry Cup four times (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002) for the best overall regular season record. In 2001, the Mallards made professional hockey history, recording their sixth consecutive season with 50 or more wins, a feat that has yet to be matched. The iWireless Center provides a unique environment for hockey and features one-of-a-kind seating areas such as the Nest for groups and functions and the exclusive Drake Club. For more information on the Quad City Mallards or for Mallards tickets go to www.myqcmallards. net . Fans can also follow the Mallards via Twitter at twitter.com/myqcmallards and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/qcmallards .

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