SPHL Announces Expansion Draft Selections, Protected Lists

Fayetteville, N.C-  The Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) on Tuesday announced the results of the expansion draft held for the Birmingham Bulls.  All players not named to a returning team’s protected list were eligible for the draft. All players eligible for the Columbus Cottonmouths’ protected list were also available for the draft.

Players selected by Birmingham were Keegan Bruce (Columbus), Mavric Parks (Columbus), Mark Rivera (Macon), John Rey (Knoxville), Sean Gammage (Pensacola) and Steven Phee (Huntsville)

In addition, the protected lists for the 2017-2018 season were released:

Birmingham – Keegan Bruce, Mavric Parks, Mark Rivera, John Rey, Sean Gammage, Steven Phee

Evansville – Tanner Milliron, Dan Cornell, Cory Melkert, Nick D’Avolio, Chase Nieuwendyk, Austin McKay, Mark Petaccio, Al Graves, Dave Williams, John Scorcia, Tommy Fiorentino, Frank Schumacher, Josh Elmes

Fayetteville – Sean Bonar, Tyler Green, Sean Robertson, Graeme Strukoff, Nicholas Rivait, Mark Corbett, Brad Campagna, Trevor Fleurent, Tayler Thompson, Jake Hauswirth, Brad Drobot, Chris Porter, Evan Dixon

Huntsville – Stuart Stefan, Sy Nutkevitch, Jordan Wood, Nolan Kaiser, Christian Powers, Tyler French, Mike Piluso, Lou Educate, Kyle Sharkey, Tyler Steel, John Lidgett, Dylan Nowakowski, John Daniels

Knoxville – Spencer Metcalfe, Jake Flegel, Andrew Bonazza, Joseph Manno, Berkley Scott, Luke Sandler, Danny Cesarz, Trever Hertz, Corey Hale, Jake Rivera, Doug Reid, Mark Pustin, Evan Neugold

Macon – Jake Trask, Daniel Gentzler, Stephen Pierog, Stathis Soumelidis, John Siemer, Matt Johnson, Dennis Sicard, Brandon Pfeil, Eric Shand, Chris Joseph, Daniel Echeverri, Garrett Bartus, Troy Passingham

Mississippi – Derek Sutliffe, Mike Moran, Devin Mantha, Dillan Fox, Ryan Marcuz, Matt Harrington, Cullen Bradshaw, Joe Sova, Peter Di Salvo, Brad Barone, Richard Coyne, Sam Higgins, Mike Grace

Pensacola – Maxime St. Cyr, Corey Banfield, Ken Neil, Josh Cousineau, Louis Belisle, Massimo Lamacchia, Patrick Megannety, Nathan Bruyere, Brandon Blair, Andrew Schmit, Stephen Hrehoriak, Brad Bourke, Joe Kalisz

Peoria – Justin Hoomaian, Ben Oskroba, Tyler Parks, Donald Olivieri, Cody Dion, Alec Hagaman, Dave Pszenyczny, Jeff Jones, Nick Neville, Dakota Klecha, Connor Gorman, Storm Phaneuf, Christian Weidauer

Roanoke – Travis Armstrong, Dmytro Babenko, Jeremy Beirnes, Jackson Brewer, Ryan de Melo, David Gandara, Todd Hosmer, Travis Jeke, Colin Murray, Ty Reichenbach, Nick Schneider, Riley Spraggs, Zach Tatrn