Alumn-ICE Report: May 19, 2026
Mac Carruth
A proud third-year member of the Western Hockey League, the Wenatchee Wild are continuing a celebrated WHL legacy that dates back to Edmonton, Alberta in 1996, continuing in Cranbrook, British Columbia and Winnipeg, Manitoba. These are the organization’s alumni, including alumni from the Kootenay and Winnipeg ICE, who played in top-level national leagues across the world this past season.
Our American pro report will return with a playoff update next week.
WHL – 1996 to 2026
MATT ALFARO (2013-17) – Starred once again for the Nottingham Panthers in the Elite Ice Hockey League, posting 13 goals and 23 assists in 48 games in Britain’s top-level pro league. He was severely impacted by a lower-body injury, bringing his season to an early end in March. Nottingham won 33 of its 54 games to take third on the 10-team circuit but dropped out of the league playoff after the quarterfinal round. However, the Panthers won the league’s Challenge Cup for a record-extending ninth time. Alfaro signed a new contract on May 6, committing to return to the Panthers for 2026-27.
20 seconds of Matt Alfaro with Labradors to improve your day 🐾 pic.twitter.com/WEyER4KJW6
— Nottingham Panthers (@PanthersIHC) May 18, 2026
MARTIN BODAK (2017-19) – Shifted to HK Poprad after two seasons with HK Dukla Michalovce, with 23 points in the Slovak Extraliga. His club won 27 games in its 50-game regular season, and reached the semifinal round before dropping a 4-1 series to eventual league champion Nitra.
TIM BOZON (2013-15) – Spent his ninth pro season in Switzerland’s National League, putting up 12 goals and six assists in 36 games for Geneve-Servette HC, plus two assists over eight games in the continent’s Champions Hockey League competition. Geneve-Servette won 31 of its 52 games during the NL season, advancing as far as the semifinals before bowing out with a 4-1 series loss to HC Fribourg-Gottéron. However, their third-place finish in the NL standings qualified them for the 2026 Champions Hockey League competition.
ADAM CRACKNELL (2002-06) – Finished in a tie for third on the Slovak Extraliga leaderboard with 58 points for HK SKP Poprad, including a league-high 35 goals. His five shorthanded goals also paced the Slovak Extraliga. Poprad won 27 games in its 50-game regular season, and reached the semifinal round before dropping a 4-1 series to eventual league champion Nitra. Cracknell signed a one-year contract extension with Poprad last month.
Adam Cracknell odchádzal do šatne v slzách. Ku koncu v Poprade povedal:
"Neviem, aká bude moja budúcnosť. Potrebujem to prebrať s rodinou. Mám už 40 rokov… Dal by som čokoľvek, aby som ešte s chlapcami mohol hrať. Uvidíme, čo sa stane."
Poprad vníma ako druhý domov: pic.twitter.com/8nzfRBvW3U
— Patrik Mitas (@PatoMitas) April 11, 2026
JAEDON DESCHENEAU (2011-16) – Moved to HK Dukla Trencin this season after helping HK Nitra advance to the Slovak Extraliga finals last season – he was one of the organization’s highest-scoring international alumni this year, with 40 points in 39 games. Trencin was somewhat less successful this season, finishing with 34 losses and a spot in the Slovak relegation series – however, they were able to maintain their place in the Extraliga for the 2026-27 season.
HUDSON ELYNUIK (2012-14) – Played briefly overseas this season, starting the year with five games on the HK 32 Liptovsky Mikulas roster before returning to North America to suit up for the ECHL’s Florida Everblades. He posted two goals and an assist in his five appearances with Mikulas, who survived the best-of-five Slovak Extraliga wild-card round before being swept by second-seeded Slovan Bratislava in the best-of-seven quarterfinal.
MATT FRASER (2007-11) – Extended his run with Austrian club Klagenfurt AC in the ICEHL to a sixth season, posting 18 goals and 11 assists over 48 games, while appearing in one Champions Hockey League game – this season was Fraser’s ninth straight pro campaign with at least 20 points. EC-KAC won 33 of its 48 games and finished second in the ICEHL standings, but was upset in an especially topsy-turvy playoff that saw three of the top four seeds bounced in the quarterfinal round, while 10th-place Fehervar – the very last team in the field – made it all the way to the semifinals.
MARIO GRMAN (2015-16) – Returned to the KHL for a season season with Admiral Vladivostok, posting a goal and four assists in 35 appearances. After Vladivostok’s narrow entry into the Gagarin Cup playoffs a year ago, Grman’s club missed the field this season, finishing at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings.
VALTTERI KAKKONEN (2018-19) – Returned to Poland’s top league for a second season, playing 33 games for GKS Tychy and matching his 2024-25 output with four goals and 17 assists. Tychy win 27 of its 40 regular-season games to take third in the Polish standings, but repeated as the league’s playoff championw with a win over Katowice in the league final. He also got his first Champions Hockey League experience, with two goals and an assist over six Champions League games.
NINO KINDER (2019-20) – Played his seventh professional season in Germany, and fifth with the Fischtown Pinguins in Bremerhaven – this year, he buried eight goals and picked up six assists in 52 games, plus a goal and an assist over eight Champions Hockey League affairs. Fischtown dropped out of the Champions League after its first-round pair with top-seeded Ilves from Finland, but the Pinguins won 28 of their 52 regular-season games and dispatched Nurnberg in a two-game qualifying-round sweep. Fischtown won one of its five quarterfinal games against Adler Mannheim in the DEL quarterfinals.
LUKE PHILP (2011-16) – Made his first venture into playing European pro hockey, joining Farjestad BK in the Swedish Hockey League, considered by many to be the world’s third-best pro league behind the NHL and KHL. His 35 points, including 13 goals, helped power Farjestad to a fifth-place finish in the SHL standings – Farjestad fell out of the postseason with a hard-fought seven-game quarterfinal series against Rogle BK.
ALESSANDRO SEGAFREDO (2021-23) – Spent this season in Switzerland, splitting between the Swiss League’s GCK Lions and the National League’s ZSC Lions. He played in eight games with the latter team, posting a goal and an assist – ZSC finished fourth, missing Champions Hockey League qualification by a tiebreaker against Geneve-Servette and reaching the semifinals before departing in a 4-games-to-1 loss to top-seeded HC Davos. However, Segafredo has enjoyed a banner year by international standards, appearing for Italy in the Olympics and also playing for his home country in the ongoing World Championships in Switzerland. In all, he enters the week with seven goals and an assist in 13 international games this season.
Dopo la sconfitta di ieri con la Francia per 5-2 (1-0, 3-1, 1-1 con reti azzurre di Phil Pietroniro ed Olmo Albis), nel match bis odierno, nuova vittoria dei transalpini sul Blue Team per 4-2 (0-0, 1-2, 3-0). A segno Marco Zanetti ed Alessandro Segafredo.
🏒 #Tuttohockey #IIHF pic.twitter.com/G5WXGNlGEP
— TuttoHockey.com (@tuttohockey) April 26, 2026
PETR SENKERIK (2009-10) – Has played for two different teams in the Czech Extraliga this season, splitting time between HC Litvinov and Mountfield HK – he only picked up three assists for Mountfield in 24 games, but fared better with seven points in 19 games for Litvinov. His 2025-26 season included the best of times, and the worst of times – he posted an assist in five Champions Hockey League tilts, but also a last-place finish in the Extraliga standings and a five-game relegation series against HC Dukla Jihlava. Litvinov won four of the five games to maintain their place in the Extraliga for 2026-27.
VLADISLAV SHILO (2022-23) – Shilo played his third season for Belarussian Extraleague powerhouse Yunost Minsk, cranking out six goals and 20 assists in 40 games. Yunost Minsk won 42 of its 52 regular-season games to win the Extraleague regular-season title, but dropped out of the Belarussian playoffs with a six-game loss to Metallurg Zhlobin before defeating Shakhter Soligorsk for the league’s bronze medal. Shilo played 13 games during Minsk’s playoff run, earning four goals and five assists.
JAKIN SMALLWOOD (2017-22) – Made his professional debut this season by linking up with German club ERC Ingolstadt – his first impression was a good one, with three goals and three assists in 27 games. Ingolstadt won 33 of its 52 games to finish fifth on the league’s 14-team table, but ended its season with a six-game quarterfinal loss to Red Bull Munchen. Ingolstadt did enjoy a lengthy run in the Champions Hockey League competition, reaching the quarterfinal round against Frolunda HC – Smallwood had two assists in 10 Champions League games.
MAXIMILIAN STREULE (2021-23) – Played his third professional season in Switzerland, stepping into 50 games with the National League’s HC Fribourg-Gottéron, and picking up 14 points. His 2025-26 season was a busy one – Fribourg-Gotteron won 37 of its 52 regular-season games to earn 100 points in the NL standings (on a three-point system), going the distance in a best-of-seven quarterfinal against the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers. The semifinal series against Geneve-Servette went just five games, but Fribourg-Gotteron dropped HC Davos in seven games to take the league’s playoff title for the first time, also avenging their loss to Davos in the Spengler Cup invitational tournament that winter.
MICHAL TEPLY (2019-20) – Spent his second season back in his native Czechia with HC Plzen, and earning seven goals and 15 assists in 40 contests. His Plzen team finished in second place in the Czech Extraliga standings, with 30 wins in 52 contests, but was upended in a thrilling seven-game quarterfinal by seventh-seeded Sparta Praha. However, Plzen did clinch a spot in the 2026-27 Champions Hockey League by virtue of its second-place Extraliga finish.
RINAT VALIEV (2013-15) – Picked up 29 points, including 24 assists, for HK Almaty in the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship. Almaty won 20 of its 54 games, but did make the league’s playoff field and gave regular-season and playoff champion Nomad Astana a scare with a seven-game series in the quarterfinal round.
BCHL (2015-23)
NICHOLAS CHERKOWSKI (2019-20) – Reached France’s top level of the sport, playing 38 games for Aigles in the city of Nice – he played 38 games for the club, with nine goals and 15 assists. Aigles won exactly half of its 44 games in Ligue Magnus competition, ahead of a six-game loss to third-seeded Angers in the quarterfinal round of the postseason.
MATT DORSEY (2017-20) – Is, oddly enough, beginning another new season this spring – Dorsey finished his third season in the SPHL with the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs this past spring, and then jetted off to join the Melbourne Mustangs of the Australian Ice Hockey League. He has two goals and four assists through his first six games of the 2026 season as fall begins to shift toward winter in the Southern Hemisphere – he earned assists in his first three games in Australia before potting his first two goals Friday in a 7-4 loss to the Melbourne Ice. The AIHL ladder features 10 teams this year, with a 30-game regular season.
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🏒 Scored by Brody Lindal, assisted by Joey Hughes and Philippe Caron
🏒 Scored by Matt Dorsey, assisted by Philippe Caron pic.twitter.com/23kwAt09Yx— Melbourne Mustangs (@Mustangs_Hockey) May 15, 2026
BRENDAN HARRIS (2013-17) – Switched to Britain’s Elite Ice Hockey League after a five-year run in the American minor leagues, signing with the Nottingham Panthers for this past season. He picked up 11 goals and 21 assists in 43 games, and tacked on 11 points over 13 Challenge Cup games – Nottingham defeated Coventry in overtime in the final to win their ninth Challenge Cup, and first in a decade. Nottingham won 33 of its 54 regular-season games to take third on the 10-team circuit but dropped out of the league playoff after the quarterfinal round.
KYLE MAYHEW (2016-17) – Moved to Europe for the first time after a two-year run in the AHL and ECHL, joining the Augsburger Panther roster in Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Mayhew hammered out 25 points in 49 contests for Augsburger, but the Panther only won 19 of their 52 games, missing the DEL’s playoff field.
DAKOTA RAABE (2014-17) – Spent four years in the American minor leagues before departing for France this season, joining Gap in Ligue Magnus – with 25 points, he was the highest-scoring American on the roster and fourth overall. However, Gap narrowly missed relegation after winning just 13 of their 44 games this past season. He had four points in the six-game relegation round, but also contributed a goal and an assist for Gap in the annual Coupe de France tournament.
TYLER ROCKWELL (2014-17) – Jumped from the Manchester Storm in Britain’s top-level league to the Yokohama Grits of the Asia League, making the first venture to Japan in his pro career. He fit right in with his new club, racking up nine goals and 17 assists – he was the higher-scoring of the two North American players on the roster, barely outranking former Wenatchee Wild forward Alex Rauter. Yokohama won 14 games this season, taking fifth on the six-team circuit.
Grits Gang Dinner with Tyler Rockwell and Alex Rauter in Yokohama Japan 🇯🇵 #横浜GRITS #yokohamagrits #hockey#icehockey pic.twitter.com/8Q2bEDZKw3
— KocoSports (@kocosports) May 3, 2026
KELE STEFFLER (2017-18) – Played exclusively in the Alps Hockey League in his eighth professional season, suiting up for 33 games with EK Zell am See and posting a goal and two assists. Zell am See won 24 of its 36 games in the Alps Hockey League regular season, taking second among the league’s 13 teams, before being eliminated by eventual champion Gherdina in the semifinal round.
LUKAS SVEJKOVSKY (2017-18) – Spent time with two Finnish teams in Liiga this season, starting the year with Ilves and posting six goals and six assists in 34 games. He wrapped up the year with six regular-season outings for Kiekko-Espoo, but only one assist, before adding a goal and an assist in five postseason games for Espoo. Their ninth-place finish landed them in the league’s wild-card round, and their first-round series went the maximum five games, as Assat earned a 5-2 win in the decisive fifth game. Svejkovsky did make an impact in Champions Hockey League play, scoring three goals over seven appearances.
A.J. VANDERBECK (2016-18) – Spent most of his third European season in HockeyAllsvenskan, Sweden’s second-level pro league, but did play 22 games in the Finnish Liiga for Pelicans. His production in Lahti was quite good, with 11 points in those 22 games, including seven goals – after his departure, Pelicans won its wild-card series against JYP in a three-game sweep, but dropped out of the Liiga playoffs with a five-game quarterfinal loss to KooKoo.
JASPER WEATHERBY (2016-18) – After splitting last season between the Czech Extraliga’s HC Dynamo Pardubice and Bílí Tygři Liberec, he stayed the full season with Liberec and picked up 20 points in 52 games. Liberec won 28 of its 52 games during the Extraliga’s regular season, but saw its season end in a seven-game quarterfinal upset against Karlovy Vary.
COOPER ZECH (2017-18) – Returned to Britain in his seventh professional season, joining the Nottingham Panthers of the Elite Ice Hockey League, posting 21 points over 51 regular-season appearances. He added five points in 14 Challenge Cup games, as Nottingham clinched its first Champions Cup title in a decade, and picked up a goal and an assist in three IIHF Continental Cup games as Nottingham brought the Cup back to Britain for the second straight year.
NAHL (2008-15)
EVAN MOSEY (2008-09) – Has spent 10 of his 13 professional seasons in Britain’s Elite Ice Hockey League, and five of those years with the Cardiff Devils –Mosey played in 53 of Cardiff’s 54 regular-season games this year, posting only one goal but racking up 24 assists, plus two more points in eight Challenge Cup games. Mosey also had a goal and an assist in four EIHL playoff games, as the Devils earned a 5-2 win over the Sheffield Steelers in the EIHL final to earn their eighth overall British playoff championship. The club announced earlier today that Mosey would be returning to Cardiff for another season in 2026-27.
📰SIGNING NEWS 📰
Evan Mosey re-signs with @cardiffdevils for his 6th season
📊Last season stats across all @officialEIHL competitions:
57GP | 28 PTS | 2 G | 26 AHappy with the signing? #devilsfans #redarmy pic.twitter.com/y32NLdjTzS
— EIHL Face-Off (@EIHLFaceOff) May 19, 2026
ALEX RAUTER (2013-14) – Spent his fourth season in the Asia League with the Yokohama Grits, picking up 10 goals and 15 assists in just 17 appearances. His 25 points placed him one behind former Wild standout Tyler Rockwell for the most points on the team by a North American player. Yokohama won 14 games this season, taking fifth on the six-team circuit.
PARKER TUOMIE (2013-14) – Returned to Cologne, Germany for his sixth professional season, all spent in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. He rolled up 19 points in 34 games for Kolner Haie, including six goals for the DEL’s regular-season champion. He made only eight playoff appearances for Kolner, who was shocked by sixth-seeded Eisbaren Berlin in a six-game semifinal series. He has spent plenty of time wearing his country’s colors as well, playing three games for the Germans at the Milan Olympics this past February, and is three games into his run at the World Championships in Switzerland. Tuomie signed earlier this month with the Fischtown Pinguins, returning to his hometown professional club in Bremerhaven for 2026-27.
Parker Tuomie kehrt nach Bremerhaven zurück https://t.co/Mzpd3i2UyL via @eishockey_mag
— eishockey-magazin (@eishockey_mag) May 9, 2026
MAC CARRUTH (2008-10) – Spent his 13th professional season in new territory this season, moving to Ligue Magnus and anchoring the net for Rouen. He earned 23 of the club’s 34 wins, leading the circuit, while also posting the fourth-best marks of a 2.04 goals-against average and a .924 save percentage. Rouen eliminated Amiens in six games in the league’s quarterfinal series, but was knocked out by Bordeaux in a four-game semifinal sweep.
Mac Carruth en chiffres🫣
92,22 % d’arrêts
652 arrêts en 26 matchs
3 blanchissagesQuelque chose à ajouter ?🤩 pic.twitter.com/l4osisuCqJ
— Dragons de Rouen (@DragonsdeRouen) February 13, 2026
