The 28 year old - who spent last season in the Dutch Eredivisie with Eindhoven Kemphanen, recording 12 goals and 36 points in 24 games - initially revealed he had signed through Twitter on Friday, writing:
"Excited to be a part of the @HullStingrays next season. Just give @Tends27 the puck and I'll be just fine! #eihl #uk #ellogov'na"At that point the signing had yet to be confirmed officially by the club, however, with the new addition now public knowledge they have announced the signing through the Elite League website today. Muncy becomes the third new import signing this week after the announcement of Guillaume Doucet and Derek Campbell at Tuesday's fans forum.
A left shooting, 6'0 tall winger, Muncy has played with a number of former Stingrays and EIHL players throughout his career.
Starting his career in junior with the Cedar Rapid Roughriders of the USHL between 2002 and 2005, he played alongside now-retired former Stingray Shane Lovdahl as well as NHLers Teddy Purcell (Tampa Bay Lightnigh), Justin Abdelkader (Detriot Red Wings), Alec Martinez (LA Kings) and Alex Stalock (San Jose Sharks) - helping the team to a first place finish in 2003.
He was moved on to the Des Moines Buccaneers and Waterloo Black Hawks via trade in 04/05 - enjoying his best season in the league as a 20 year old with 59 points in 59 games, ending the year as the USHL's tenth top scorer and second in Buccaneers scoring.
A move to study Sociology for four years at Ivy League college Brown University followed as he posted 29 points in 104 games and four years in the NCAA. During three of those four years he was named on the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference All-Academic team, honouring outstanding students in the ECAC.
Muncy enjoyed a great rookie campaign in the CHL as he was picked for the Central Hockey League All-Star game - where he was named Most Valuable Player after picking up two goals and two assists - before being named on the 09/10 CHL All-Rookie Team at the seasons end, having notched 14 goals and 47 points in 61 games.
He, unsurprisingly returned to Rio Grande in 10/11 - picking up 14 goals and 31 points in 37 games prior to Christmas - before being loaned up to American Hockey League side the Houston Aeros for one game in December 2010, making his AHL debut, and only appearance, in a 2-1 victory over the San Antonio Rampage.
A Chesterfield, Missouri native, he was traded to his homestate CHL side the Missouri Mavericks in exchange for former Nottingham Panthers defenceman Dominic D'Armour in 2011. In Kansas City, Missouri he was unfortunately unable to replicate the success he had in Rio Grande and he was waived twice before the end of the season, first joining Fort Worth Brahmas before ending the season with no points in four games with the Arizona Sundogs.
After racking up CHL totals of 30 goals and 55 assists in 127 games, Muncy moved to Europe in 2011 recording 23 goals and 50 points in 30 games in the German fourth division with ESV Buchloe before moving to enjoy further pointscoring success in the Holland last season.
"I am really pleased to have Sean on my team. He is a hard worker and a real competitor. I coached against him in the CHL so I know all about him and what we are getting. He used to play with Dulles in Rio Grande and I have actually been trying to sign him for the past couple of years. He played in the CHL All-Star team, he can play both ways, he skates extremely well, he is a good penalty killer and can play special teams. He plays hard every night - he is a good addition to the line-up."With low penalty totals to his name and a solid, if not outstanding scoring record, but impressive list of awards in the NCAA and CHL, he will likely be a valuable asset for the Stingrays.
His Brown University Athletics bio describes him as "an extremely talented forward...one of the top penalty-killers on the team...[who] will also be expected to help lead Brown's shorthanded efforts."
While his abilities shorthanded will be an added bonus for a team that had one of the EIHL's worst penalty kills last season, as an import forward the American will be required to help offensively. Encouragingly, Tommie Hartog - Muncy's coach in Eindhoven last term - backed up what Cloutier said when he joined the Dutch side, stating "he is a very fast guy with good hands" as did his coach in Germany who also said "extremely fast and technically gifted striker".
With the signing of Muncy and Doucet as well as that of Campbell, Cloutier looks to have made a move to fill that 'consistent secondary scoring' shaped hole which the club so lacked last season.
