Jim Rutherford,
President and General Manager of the Carolina Hurricanes announced on Wednesday that the team acquired forwards Evgenii Dadonov
and A.J. Jenks from the Florida Panthers in exchange for forwards Jon Matsumoto
and Mattias Lindstrom.
Evgenii Dadonov
Dadonov,
22, is in his fifth season of professional hockey in North
America, and has played 15
games on the NHL
level with the Florida Panthers this season, totaling two goals and one assist
(3 points).
The Chelyabinsk, Russia, native has earned nine points (5g, 4a) in
20 games with the Panthers’ American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the
San Antonio Rampage.
Drafted by the Panthers in the third round, 71st
overall, in the 2007 NHL
Entry Draft, Dadonov (5’11”, 185 lbs.) has skated in 55 career NHL
games for Florida,
totaling 10 goals, 10 assists (20 points) and 16 penalty minutes.
He
established career highs in NHL
games played (36), goals (8), assists (9) and points (17) in 2010-11, and
represented Florida at the 2011 NHL All-Star Game in Raleigh
as one of 12 rookies selected to participate.
A.J. Jenks
Jenks,
21, is in his second professional season, splitting the year between San
Antonio (AHL) and Cincinnati
(ECHL).
A native of Detroit,
Jenks has skated in 28 games for the Rampage, without registering a point, and has
totaled three goals and three assists (6 points) in 13 ECHL games with the
Cyclones.
Originally selected in the fourth round, 100th overall, in
the 2008 NHL
Entry Draft, Jenks (6’2”, 206 lbs.) played four seasons for the
Plymouth Whalers of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) before turning pro,
tallying 79 goals and 114 assists (193 points) in 249 career junior hockey
games.
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