SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League introduced right this moment that Cleveland Monsters defenseman Denton Mateychuk has been chosen because the Howies Hockey Tape/AHL Participant of the Week for the interval ending November 17, 2024.
Mateychuk registered 4 objectives and three assists in 4 video games for the Monsters, capping the busy week with consecutive additional time game-winners.
With Cleveland wrapping up a three-game street swing in Utica final Monday night, Mateychuk notched a aim and an help to assist the membership to a 4-0 win over the Comets. The Monsters returned dwelling to face Toronto on Wednesday and whereas he was held scoreless, Mateychuk was on the ice for each the game-tying and game-winning objectives in a 3-2 additional time victory. Lastly, again on the street for a pair of weekend video games in Windfall, Mateychuk notched two objectives and an help on Friday night and added a aim and an help on Sunday afternoon, scoring each decisive objectives in a pair of 4-3 OT triumphs over the Bruins.
Mateychuk was Columbus’s first-round alternative, twelfth general, within the 2022 NHL Draft and made his professional debut with Cleveland in the course of the convention finals of the 2024 Calder Cup Playoffs final spring. He has totaled six objectives and 10 assists for 16 factors in 15 video games for the Monsters this season, rating first amongst all AHL defensemen and second amongst all AHL rookies in scoring.
A local of Winnipeg, Man., the 20-year-old Mateychuk performed his junior hockey with Moose Jaw of the Western Hockey League, the place he was voted the league’s high defenseman in addition to most beneficial participant of the WHL playoffs in 2023-24.
