Vancouver Canucks Organization Officially Announces Signing of 25-Year-Old Forward
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The Vancouver Canucks organization has officially announced the signing of a 25-year-old forward as injury issues continue to wreck havoc at all three levels.
It's been an injury-filled 2025-26 season for the Vancouver Canucks, as well as their two affiliates - the American Hockey League's Abbotsford Canucks and the ECHL's Kalamazoo Wings.
Both Abbotsford and Kalamazoo have been forced forced to search for external options as injuries continue to pile up and despite it still being early in the season, their hopes of making their respective league playoffs are dwindling by the day.
For the Kalamazoo Wings, who sit dead-last in the ECHL's Western Conference with a 3-6-0 record through nine games, they're once again bringing in some help from the outside and someone who is returning to North America after beginning the season in Sweden.
Vancouver Canucks organization announces signing of 25-year-old forward
On Thursday afternoon, the Kalamazoo Wings announced that they've agreed to terms on a standard player contract for the remainder of the 2025-26 season with 25-year-old forward Colson Gengenbach.
"The Kalamazoo Wings, proud ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks, announced Thursday that the Abbotsford Canucks (AHL) have loaned goaltender Jonathan Lemieux, and the team has signed rookie forward Colson Gengenbach to a Standard Player Contract (SPC)." the club said.
Gengenbach, a native of Edmonton, Alberta, is just beginning his career in professional hockey after spending four seasons in USports with the University of Calgary Dinos, where he had 84 points in 96 games.
At the end of the 2024-25 campaign, Gengenbach signed with the American Hockey League's Manitoba Moose, suiting up in eight games with them, registering four penalty minutes and was a minus-six before becoming a free agent.
In August, Gengenbach agreed to terms on a one-year contract with Vimmerby HC of HockeyAllsvenskan, the second tier of professional hockey in Sweden, but after 11 games, he decided to leave the club in for an opportunity to play with the Kalamazoo Wings.
It's still unclear when Gengenbach will make his ECHL & Kalamazoo Wings debut, but it could come as early as today against the Cincinnati Cyclones.
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