Rail Yard Dawgs Announce 2018-19 Protected List
May 30, 2018 - SPHL (SPHL)
Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs News Release
ROANOKE, VA - The Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs and head coach Dan Bremner announced on Wednesday their 13-player protected list for the upcoming 2018-19 SPHL season.
Per SPHL rules, each team may protect 13 players who finished the previous season on their roster. Those players are untouchable in the upcoming expansion draft and cannot be signed by other SPHL teams. Players left off the list are eligible to be drafted by the yet to be named Quad City franchise in the expansion draft and are free to sign with any SPHL team if they are not drafted.
2017-18 SPHL goaltender of the year Brad Barone headlines the list. In his third pro season and first in Roanoke, Barone went 15-15-2 and had a league-best .917 save percentage along with a 2.93 GAA. He's joined by Dawgs leading scorer and All-SPHL Second Team forward Steve Mele who was the only Roanoke player to appear in all 56 games. Mele finished with a career-high 22 goals and 37 assists in his sixth professional season.
Other notable inclusions are forward Maxime Guyon, who registered 11 goals and eight assists over 16 games with the Dawgs, forward Colin Murray, who put up 15 goals and six assists in 35 games, and veteran defenseman Joe Sova.
The Rail Yard Dawgs' entire protected list is as follows:
FORWARDS:
Steve Mele
Maxime Guyon
Eric Witzel
Zach Tatrn
Phil Bronner
Colin Murray
Matt Beer
Grant Garvin
DEFENSEMEN:
Joe Sova
Brian Rowland
Cam Bakker
Travis Armstrong
GOALTENDER:
Brad Barone
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