{"id":49238,"date":"2025-08-07T01:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49238\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T01:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:44:12","slug":"east-notes-keeper-kowalsky-terrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49238\/","title":{"rendered":"East Notes: Keeper, Kowalsky, Terrance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite signing<\/a> a one-year contract with the Elite Ice Hockey League\u2019s (EIHL) Glasgow Clan in late June, defenseman Brady Keeper<\/a> won\u2019t be playing out that contract with the team. In an announcement<\/a> from the team, Keeper has decided to step away from hockey and retire at the age of 29.<\/p>\n

A product of the NCAA\u2019s University of Maine, Keeper signed with the Florida Panthers toward the end of the 2018-19 season as a collegiate free agent. He debuted with the Panthers during the 2018-2019 season, skating for 12:40 in a game against the Ottawa Senators on March 28, 2019. He recorded one blocked shot and two hits.<\/p>\n

He spent the next few years moving from the Panthers to the Vancouver Canucks, before finally landing in the Montreal Canadiens organization in the 2023-24 season. Outside of an additional game with Florida, he\u2019s only played in the AHL, finishing his career with 10 goals and 31 points in 129 games with a -2 rating and 208 PIMs. Unless he changes his mind on retirement in the next few years, his last professional hockey contest will have come with the AHL\u2019s Laval Rocket in 2024.<\/p>\n

Other notes from the Eastern Conference:<\/p>\n

The Maine Mariners of the ECHL, affiliated with the NHL\u2019s Boston Bruins, have added a lot of experience in their new head coach and General Manager. According to a team announcement<\/a>, the Mariners have hired Rick Kowalsky<\/a> as their next bench boss and General Manager, who was recently the head coach of the AHL\u2019s Bridgeport Islanders. He began his coaching career as an assistant coach for the AHL\u2019s Norfolk Admirals in the 2005-06 season and has won one coach of the year award in the AHL and another in the ECHL.
\nCarey Terrance<\/a>, the main asset acquired<\/a> by the New York Rangers from the Anaheim Ducks for Chris Kreider<\/a>, is already making positive impressions in the organization. In a recent interview with Dan Rosen of NHL.com<\/a>, the Rangers\u2019 player development coach, Jed Ortmeyer<\/a>, said of Terrance, \u201cHe was like, \u2019Yes, let me know. I want to be coached. You\u2019re never going to hurt my feelings. I want to know. That was great to hear. He wants to be coached. He wants to get better and he\u2019s hungry. He\u2019s eager to learn and he wants to be great.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite signing a one-year contract with the Elite Ice Hockey League\u2019s (EIHL) Glasgow Clan in late June, defenseman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[3063,64,63,5789,41854,41855,28896,41856,3274,5790,3617,575,1793,85,2371],"class_list":["post-49238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston-bruins","tag-brady-keeper","tag-carey-terrance","tag-echl","tag-eihl","tag-florida-panthers","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-retirement","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}