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| The Wolf Pack have named former Notre Dame star Steven Fogarty as team captain for the 2019-20 season. |
HARTFORD—Hartford Wolf Pack general manager Chris Drury
announced today that forward Steven Fogarty has been named the 12th captain in
Wolf Pack history, and that defensemen Ryan Lindgren and Vincent LoVerde, and
forward Boo Nieves, will rotate as alternate captains.
Fogarty, a fourth-year pro out of the University of Notre Dame,
was the Wolf Pack’s second-leading point, goal and assist-scorer last season,
with pro career highs of 21-31-52 in 66 games. The 26-year-old
Chambersburg, PA native also logged ten games with the parent New York Rangers
in 2018-19. A third-round (No. 72 overall) draft pick by the Rangers in
2011, Fogarty has totaled 198 career games of action in a Wolf Pack uniform,
notching 37 goals and 56 assists for 93 points, along with 93 penalty minutes.
Lindgren is entering his second year of pro hockey out of the
University of Minnesota. In 65 games with the Wolf Pack last season as a
rookie, the 21-year-old native of Burnsville, MN, chipped in 12 assists and
served 94 minutes in penalties, the second-highest total on the Wolf Pack
club. He also got into five NHL games with the Rangers, registering eight
PIM. Lindgren was acquired by the Rangers from Boston February 25, 2018,
along with Ryan Spooner, Matt Beleskey and a 2018 first-round draft pick, in
exchange for Rick Nash. He was originally drafted in the second round (No. 49 overall) by the Bruins in 2016.
LoVerde is a ninth-year pro, and two-time Calder Cup champion, who
was signed to an AHL contract by the Wolf Pack July 1. The 30-year-old,
Chicago-born LoVerde brings 432 games of AHL experience to the Wolf Pack,
having amassed career totals of 45 goals and 107 assists for 152 points, along
with 316 PIM, in action with the Manchester Monarchs, Ontario Reign and Toronto
Marlies. A product of Miami University (Ohio), LoVerde captained the
2014-15 Monarchs to a Calder Cup title and also won a Calder Cup with the
2017-18 Marlies.
Nieves, a 25-year-old fourth-year man out of the University of
Michigan, skated in 43 games with the Rangers in 2018-19, contributing four
goals and six assists for ten points. He also saw action in 16 games with
the Wolf Pack, and registered three goals and five assists for eight
points. A second-round draftee by the Rangers
in 2012 (No. 59 overall), and a native of Syracuse, NY, Nieves is a veteran of 72 career NHL
games, in which he has totaled five goals and 14 assists for 19 points, plus 20
penalty minutes, and 104 AHL contests with the Wolf Pack, having produced 19
goals and 33 assists for 52 points, with 28 PIM.
The Wolf Pack open their 2019-20 regular season this Saturday, Oct.
5, with a home-ice contest vs. the defending Calder Cup-champion Charlotte
Checkers. Faceoff is 7 p.m. at the XL Center. Tickets for that game, and all 2019-20 Wolf
Pack home games, are on sale now at the Sunwave Gas & Power Ticket Office
at the XL Center, on-line at www.hartfordwolfpack.com and by phone at 877-522-8499. Tickets purchased in advance for kids 12 or younger start
at just $10 each, and all tickets will have a $3 day-of-game increase.
—Staff Reports
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