Burton inks new AHL deal

Echo Bay’s Jarrett Burton is set to return for anther season with the American Hockey League’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

The team inked the 26-year-old forward to an AHL contract earlier this week.

Burton is coming off a season that saw him score seven goals and 11 points in 39 games in his first full season with the Penguins in 2016-17.

He also played 15 games with the ECHL’s Wheeling Nailers in late-January where he scored four goals and 11 points in 15 games.

After playing two seasons with the Ontario Junior League’s Kingston Voyageurs from 2008 to 2010, Burton went on to play four seasons of college hockey with Clarkson University of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC).

Burton then joined the Nailers at the end of the 2013-14 season and would spend the entire 2014-15 season with Wheeling, where he scored 12 goals and 28 points in 52 games. He would proceed to split the 2015-16 season between Wheeling and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton before spending much of last season with the Penguins.