Canadian forward Andy Andreoff, 34, has
signed a two year contract with the ZSC Lions, the Zurich-based
National League team announced on Monday.
“With Andy
Andreoff, we're gaining a physically strong forward who knows where
the net is,” said Lions’ sports director Sven Leuenberger. “Just
as important for me is that Andy can be used to kill penalties and is
strong on faceoffs, because that’s where we needed more after the
departures of Juho Lammikko and Vinzenz Rohrer.”
Leuenberger
continued, “Andy can also play on the power play and operate as
both a center and a wing. Our quota of six import players is now
complete.”
Born in Pickering,
Ont., Andreoff played junior hockey for the OHL’s
Oshawa Generals and was chosen by the Los
Angeles Kings in the third round, 80th overall, in the 2011 NHL
Entry Draft.
Between 2014 and
2023, Andreoff played 188 NHL regular-season games for the Kings,
Philadelphia
Flyers and New
York Islanders, recording 27 points and a whopping 225 penalty
minutes. He also played one playoff game with Los Angeles in 2016.
Rohrer & Lammikko Leave Zurich For NHLA
pair of forwards who have been members of the Zurich Lions
back-to-back championships in Switzerland and the team’s Champions
Hockey League title this past season have signed contracts with NHL
clubs this weekend.
Andreoff spent the
past two seasons in the KHL playing for Sibir Novosibirsk, where he
talllied 81 points and 89 penalty minutes in 137 regular-season and
playoff games.
Zurich has been
Switzerland’s most successful team in recent years, winning
back-to-back National League titles and also winning
the Champions Hockey League final on home ice last season.
Andreoff joins a roster that includes ex-NHLers Yannick Weber, Derek
Grant, Denis
Malgin, Sven Andrighetto, Rudolfs
Balcers, Dean Kukan and Mikko Lehtonen.
Photo © Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images.
Zurich Lions Win Champions Hockey League Final – Back-To-Back Titles For SwitzerlandFor the second year in a row, a Swiss team has defeated a Swedish team in the Champions Hockey League final. On their home ice, the ZSC Lions defeated visiting Färjestad 2-1 before a sell-out crowd of 12,000 at Swiss Life Arena in Zurich.
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