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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins have signed goaltender Alexander Pechurskiy (peh-CHUR-skee) to a professional tryout contract, it was announced on Tuesday.

"Питтсбург" заключил двухлетний контракт новичка с Полом Томпсоном, сообщает официальный сайт клуба. Форвард последние четыре года выступал за колледж Нью-Гэмпшира, всего на его счету 112 (57+55) очков в 140 матчах. Отметим, что перед началом этого сезона Томпсон занимался в тренировочном лагере "Пингвинов", где и попал на заметку тренерскому штабу.

Born in Derry, New Hampshire, Thompson began playing hockey at age five.He became a fan of the UNH hockey team while his elder cousin, Mike Souza, played on the team.He later attended Pinkerton Academy where he played hockey his freshman and sophomore year. While at Pinkerton he also played Baseball and Football.The next two years he played for the New Hampshire Junior Monarchs of the Eastern Junior Hockey League.After scoring fifty one goals in fifty games in the 2006–07 season, Thompson was named the EJHL Offensive Player of the Year.In 2007 he was ranked seventy second among North American hockey players by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau. He was the highest ranked North American player to not be selected in the NHL Entry Draft that year.
He then attended the University of New Hampshire where he is a Health Management major.Thompson scored his first college hat trick on November 17, 2007 in a game against Providence College.In the 2009–10 season he scored thirty nine points, second on the team to Bobby Butler.Thompson is now the highest scoring New Hampshire native on the UNH ice hockey team in the past thirty years.He is a finalist for the 2011 Hobey Baker Award.
In March 2011 he signed a two year contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins organization.

А насколько престижно для игроков выиграть Calder Cup?