Brandon Sutter coming back to Canes
Carolina Hurricanes center Brandon Sutter on October 13, 2008.
Mar 9, 2009
Tags: Hockey, Carolina Hurricanes
RALEIGH — The Carolina Hurricanes, on the eve of a huge game with the New York Rangers, have recalled center Brandon Sutter from the Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League.
Sutter will be available for tonight's 7 p.m. game.
Sutter, 20, netted three goals and earned an assist (4 points) in seven games for Albany since being assigned to the River Rats for a conditioning stint. He earned a plus-2 plus/minus rating and scored a power-play goal and a short-handed tally for the Rats.
Sutter, from Huntington, N.Y., is in his first full professional season, and has notched one goal and earned five assists (6 points) in 50 games with the Hurricanes. Sutter, 6 feet 3 and 183 pounds, joined Carolina this season after completing his junior hockey career with the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League in 2007-08.
He scored 68 goals and earned 86 assists (154 points) in 205 career regular-season games with Red Deer, before joining Albany for the end of the 2007-08 regular season and the River Rats’ playoff series against the Philadelphia Phantoms. Carolina drafted Sutter in the first round, 11th overall, in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft.
