{"id":804501,"date":"2026-07-15T23:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/804501\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T23:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:57:25","slug":"stankowski-signs-pro-contract-with-dundee-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/804501\/","title":{"rendered":"Stankowski signs pro contract with Dundee Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     CALGARY \u2013 University of Calgary Dinos men&#8217;s hockey goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/carl-stankowski\/16737\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16737\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Stankowski<\/a> is heading overseas after signing a professional contract with the Dundee Stars of the Elite Ice Hockey League in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Stankowski returned to form after battling through an injury-shortened 2024-25 season, bouncing back in 2025-26 to earn Canada West Second Team All-Star honours in his final campaign as a Dino. The Calgary native led the team with 16 starts\u00a0\u2013 a career high\u00a0\u2013 and ranked second in the conference in save percentage at 0.910 and third in goals-against average at 2.30. He finished with a 10-4-1 record, tying his career high in wins, while racking up a pair of shutouts.<\/p>\n<p>Over five seasons with the Dinos, Stankowski appeared in 47 regular season games, posting a .911 save percentage and recording three shutouts. He was a key member of the 2023 Canada West championship team, part of a goaltending trio that allowed the fewest goals in the regular season and earned the Dinos the first of three Adam Kryczka Memorial Trophies, claimed again in 2023-24 and 2025-26. The Second Team All-Star nod was his second conference\u00a0honour, having been named to the All-Rookie team following the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n<p>Stankowski becomes the second Dino to join Dundee for the coming season, alongside defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/sean-strange\/16739\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16739\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Strange<\/a>, who signed his professional contract with the club earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>-UC-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; CALGARY \u2013 University of Calgary Dinos men&#8217;s hockey goaltender Carl Stankowski is heading overseas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-804501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}