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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League introduced right this moment that Charlotte Checkers ahead Aidan McDonough has been chosen because the Howies Hockey Tape/AHL Participant of the Week for the interval ending October 13, 2024.
McDonough scored 4 objectives in two video games, together with a pair of game-winning tallies, to assist the Checkers open the 2024-25 season with consecutive street victories in opposition to Atlantic Division opponents.
In Saturday’s opener at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, McDonough recorded his first profession hat trick, tying the sport at 3-3 halfway by means of the second interval after which breaking a 5-5 impasse with two extra objectives within the third as Charlotte outlasted the Penguins, 7-6. Then on Sunday afternoon, McDonough’s second-period tally snapped a scoreless draw and despatched the Checkers to a 3-0 win at Bridgeport.
McDonough enters his second skilled season in 2024-25 after recording 11 objectives and eight assists in 58 AHL video games as a rookie with the Abbotsford Canucks a yr in the past. Initially a seventh-round choice by Vancouver within the 2019 NHL Draft, McDonough joined the Checkers after attending coaching camp with the Florida Panthers this fall. The native of Milton, Mass., performed 4 seasons at Northeastern College and made his NHL debut following his senior yr, accumulating one purpose in six video games with Vancouver.
