Friday, 9 July 2010

Stingrays get Lowe again

Young British forward Ben Lowe has re-signed to the Hull Stingrays for the 10/11 season following a 20 league game spell last year.

The 19 year old was signed by Sylvain Cloutier to his first EIHL contract at the back end of last season, after making the odd appearance over the years, and went on to make 23 appearances in all competitions.

Although the 5'8 winger went pointless last year, he did net nine goals and seven assists in 17 games with the Hull Arena based ENL side Kingston Jets.
"I am really pleased to have Ben back. He was training with us last season and you could see the improvement he was making...he maybe didn't get as much ice time as he would have liked...but Ben is still young, he wants to get better and we want to help make him a better player."
The youngsters enthusiasm showed through most of all and although he struggled with the pace and physicality of the Elite League, as many players do stepping up from the ENL, the more experience he gains in the league the better a player he will become, although that won't come without a lot of hard work. 

Lowe becomes the fourth Hull based player to sign for next season following the signature of Andrew Jaszczyk, Lee Esders and Matty Davies, and Cloutier went on to admit that it is always important to have local players in the side.
"He is another local talent - you always want to help and make the young local guys into better hockey players"