Vay Reassigned to Iowa

November 7, 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, the Mallards announced today. In addition, forward Connor Brown has departed the Mallards and has been placed on the team's suspended list.

Vay, 22, has gone 2-2-1 with a 2.96 goals against average and a .879 save percentage in five games with the Mallards this season. This recall is Vay's second in the last two weeks. He first joined Iowa for games October 28 and October 29 before returning to the Mallards without seeing any AHL game action.

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.

Brown, 21, played in three games for the Mallards this season without recording a point.

The Mallards return to action on home ice Friday night at 7:05 p.m. against the Toledo Walleye. Friday evening is Military Appreciation Night. The Mallards will wear sp ecial edition military jerseys when the meet the Walleye. After Friday, the Mallards will wear those jerseys for pregame warm-ups until they are auctioned off to benefit VFW Post 1303 on March 31. The Mallards' match-up with Toledo also brings the return of $2 Dog/$2 Beer Night presented by 97X. Fans can enjoy $2 hot dogs and beers from iWireless Center concession stands during every Friday Mallards home game.

Single game tickets for all Mallards regular season home games- including Friday 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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