SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League introduced in the present day that Calgary Wranglers ahead Rory Kerins, San Jose Barracuda ahead Collin Graf and San Jose Barracuda goaltender Yaroslav Askarov have been chosen because the league’s award winners for October.
Kerins, the AHL Participant of the Month, scored 9 objectives and totaled 11 factors in 10 video games for Calgary because the group raced out to a 9-1-0-0 begin to the season.
Kerins started the season by scoring twice in a 4-3 loss to Abbotsford on opening evening. He recorded his first profession AHL hat trick on Oct. 16 because the Wranglers defeated Coachella Valley, 3-1, and struck twice extra on Oct. 18 throughout a 5-3 win at Henderson. Kerins scored once more to assist Calgary rally from two objectives down for a 3-2 win over Colorado on Oct. 25, and he closed out the month by scoring in a 6-2 victory over San Diego on Oct. 31, the Wranglers’ ninth win in a row.
Kerins’ 9 objectives already put him greater than midway to his complete of 16 from final season, which was his first full season within the AHL. The 22-year-old native of Caledon, Ont., has performed 74 profession video games within the AHL with Calgary and Stockton, totaling 26 objectives and 19 assists for 45 factors. Kerins was a sixth-round alternative by the Calgary Flames within the 2020 NHL Draft.
Graf, the AHL Rookie of the Month, has begun his first professional season by recording factors in every of his first seven video games, totaling three objectives and 7 assists for the Barracuda in October.
Graf netted his first skilled aim on opening evening, a part of San Jose’s 5-0 win at Ontario, and he scored once more within the rematch with the Reign an evening later. He registered an help in every of the Barracuda’s back-to-back victories over Iowa on Oct. 19 and Oct. 20, and recorded three helpers in a 5-2 resolution at Henderson on Oct. 23. Graf tallied two extra assists on Oct. 25 at Henderson, and completed the month by scoring what proved to be the game-winning aim in San Jose’s 5-1 victory over Coachella Valley on Oct. 30.
Graf is the main point-getter on a Barracuda group that’s averaging 5.0 objectives per sport up to now. The 22-year-old native of Lincoln, Mass., signed as a free agent with the San Jose Sharks on Apr. 4, 2024, after finishing his junior collegiate season at Quinnipiac College, the place he received a nationwide championship in 2022-23 and was named the ECAC Hockey participant of the yr for 2023-24. Graf made his NHL debut with the Sharks final spring, recording two assists in seven video games.
Askarov, the AHL Goaltender of the Month, allowed simply six objectives on 145 photographs over 5 begins in October, going 5-0-0 with a 1.20 goals-against common, a .959 save share and two shutouts.
Askarov started his third skilled season with back-to-back shutouts, making 22 saves in a 5-0 win at Ontario on Oct. 12 and stopping 26 photographs in a 5-0 victory over Iowa on Oct. 19. He prolonged his shutout streak to 151 minutes and 53 seconds whereas turning apart 26 photographs in a 5-2 win at Henderson on Oct. 23, and recorded 29 extra saves in a 5-3 win over the Silver Knights on Oct. 25. Askarov closed out the month by making 36 stops because the Barracuda defeated Coachella Valley, 5-1, on Oct. 30.
Askarov has posted a file of 61-29-6 with a 2.48 goals-against common, a .913 save share and 11 shutouts in 97 profession AHL outings with San Jose and Milwaukee. He was chosen to take part within the AHL All-Star Traditional in every of his first two seasons, and was named to the AHL Prime Prospects Group in 2023-24 after ending second within the league in wins (30) and shutouts (6) and fifth in GAA (2.39). The 22-year-old native of Omsk, Russia, additionally helped Milwaukee attain the Western Convention Finals in 2023 and 2024. Initially a first-round choice (eleventh total) by Nashville within the 2020 NHL Draft, Askarov has made three profession appearances within the Nationwide Hockey League; he was acquired by the Sharks on Aug. 23, 2024.
