Hockey Notebook: Former Greyhound inks pro deal

Former Soo Greyhounds blueliner Dylan King will have a new home this season.

King has agreed to terms with the ECHL’s Cincinnati Cyclones for the 2014-15 hockey season.

The Thessalon, Ont. native split the 2013-14 season with the San Francisco Bulls and South Carolina Stingrays, both of the ECHL.

In 38 games with the Bulls, King had three goals and 12 points before joining the Stingrays where he picked up two assists in 30 games.

“Dylan is a steady presence on the blueline,” Cincinnati Coach Matt MacDonald said in a team-issued release. “He’s been a great contributor everywhere he had been during his career and we look forward to a great season from him.”

King spent four seasons with the Greyhounds in his Ontario Hockey League career. In 240 career games with the Greyhounds, King scored 11 goals and 44 points.

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SICOLY TO JOIN THUNDERBIRDS

The Soo Thunderbirds have added another forward to the mix as they prepare to open the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League season.

The Thunderbirds will have 16-year-old forward Nic Sicoly in the lineup as the season opens after signing the young forward.

Sicoly, a fourth round draft pick of the OHL’s Guelph Storm, spent the 2013-14 season with the Toronto Marlies minor midget team where he posted 14 goals and 33 points in 33 games.

Sicoly spent the previous two seasons with the Soo Thunder. With the Thunder minor midget team, where he played as an underage player, Sicoly scored 44 goals and 88 points in 68 games during the 2012-13 season.

One year earlier, Sicoly scored 62 goals and 109 points in 39 games with the Soo Thunder major bantam team.

The Thunderbirds are in action this weekend as they play a pair of exhibition games at Pullar Stadium in Sault, Mich. as they face the North American League’s Soo Eagles.

Photo courtesy Aaron Bell/OHL Images