{"id":12407,"date":"2021-12-10T04:08:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12407"},"modified":"2021-12-10T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T04:08:09","slug":"amerks-sign-danforth-to-american-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12407","title":{"rendered":"Amerks sign Danforth to American League Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>AMERKS SIGN DANFORTH TO AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE CONTRACT<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Rochester Americans announced today that the team has signed forward <strong>JUSTIN DANFORTH<\/strong> to a one-year American Hockey League contract for the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n<p>Danforth, 24, scored two goals in five games with the Amerks on an Amateur Tryout last season following a brief three-game stint with the ECHL\u2019s Reading Royals. While with the Royals, he notched three points (1+2) in three games, including his first pro goal on March 10. He also appeared in one AHL contest for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to turning pro, the 5-foot-9, 180-pound forward closed out his senior season at Sacred Heart University (AHA) with a team-high 32 points (10+22) in 37 games for the Pioneers while serving as an alternate captain. The Oshawa, Ontario, native amassed 124 points (42+82) in 147 career games at Sacred Heart, where he led the team in scoring as a freshman, junior and senior. He was named the AHA Rookie of the Year in 2013-14 and also earned a spot on the AHA All-Rookie Team. He was later selected to the Atlantic Hockey All-Conference Second Team following his junior season and was also named the AHA Player of the Month for January 2016. Danforth finished seventh all-time in program history with 124 points and fifth all-time with 82 career assists.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.shopskm.com\/Teams-Dragons' title='St George illawarra Dragons Jersey'>St George illawarra Dragons Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMERKS SIGN DANFORTH TO AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE CONTRACT The Rochester Americans announced today that the team has signed forward JUSTIN DANFORTH to a one-year American Hockey League contract for the 2017-18 season. Danforth, 24, scored two goals in five games with the Amerks on an Amateur Tryout last season following a brief three-game stint with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12407\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amerks sign Danforth to American League Contract&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}