{"id":177113,"date":"2026-02-13T22:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177113\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T22:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:51:06","slug":"idaho-steelheads-brendan-hoffmann-signs-pto-with-ahls-san-jose-barracuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177113\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Steelheads | BRENDAN HOFFMANN SIGNS PTO WITH AHL\u2019S SAN JOSE BARRACUDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOISE, ID \u2013 The Idaho Steelheads (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/steelheads\">@Steelheads<\/a>), proud ECHL (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ECHL\">@ECHL<\/a>) affiliate of the Dallas Stars <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DallasStars\">(@DallasStars<\/a>), and Steelheads Head Coach &amp; Director of Hockey Operations Everett Sheen announced today that forward Brendan Hoffmann has signed a professional tryout contract (PTO) with the San Jose Barracuda (AHL).<\/p>\n<p>Hoffmann, 24, is in the midst of the best season of his ECHL career, reaching a career-best 51 points after a four-point performance on Tuesday against the Utah Grizzlies, an effort that included the first hat trick of his ECHL career.<\/p>\n<p>The Charlotte, NC native is the current ECHL goal scoring leader with 32 tallies and ranks third in overall scoring with his 51 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s put together three streaks of at least six consecutive games with a point, with his longest streak of nine games taking place from Jan. 10 to Feb. 1. That span included a seven-game goal scoring streak, one shy of the longest in Steelheads history.<\/p>\n<p>The forward was also named an ECHL All-Star for the first time this season and was the sole player to represent the Steelheads at the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his ECHL career, Hoffmann has racked up 157 points (79G, 78A) in 237 games with Idaho, Atlanta, and Reading.<\/p>\n<p>This opportunity represents the first chance at AHL experience for Hoffmann after four seasons in the ECHL.<\/p>\n<p>The Idaho Steelheads begin a three-in-three series tonight at 6:05 p.m. MST with the Wichita Thunder. Catch tonight\u2019s game on FloHockey or listen on the Steelheads flagship station 95.3 FM\/1350 AM KTIK \u201cThe Ticket.\u201d\u00a0Stay up to date with all things Steelheads on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IdahoSteelheads\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Steelheads\">Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/idahosteelheads\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOISE, ID \u2013 The Idaho Steelheads (@Steelheads), proud ECHL (@ECHL) affiliate of the Dallas Stars (@DallasStars), and Steelheads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-177113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}