10th year center Chris Langkow(71) has seeming enjoyed his 2nd foray overseas with MAC Ujbuda of Slovak Tipsport Liga scoring a nifty 17 goals and 22 assists in 55 games, then adding another 10 points in 8 playoff contests to re-sign for another go round in 2019/2020.
He was coming off a successful season as captain of Worcester Railers (18-27-45) but at age 29 still had enough left in the tank to take it up another level with possibly a better pay rate.
Although he was also loaned up for 7 games to Hartford Wolf Pack and connected for a goal and an assist in limited minutes, it was unlikely he was going to score a higher league deal.
In his first excursion across the pond things didn’t work out quite as well as he maybe would have liked playing through two leagues EBEL and Allsvenskan before returning.
The veteran of 257 ECHL and 155 AHL games may have found a new home to lace up the skates but you can bet if he matches or surpasses last year’s marks will likely continue looking for the best possible place to play.
Chris Langkow (11)
Undrafted center Chris Langkow(54) started his fourth pro season much like he did the three previous campaigns, signed for a one-year minor league deal to play in the ECHL.
He posted career highs in scoring last season with 20 goals and 41 points, first with Reading Royals, who he signed with in the off-season and then traded to South Carolina Stingrays.
The 6’1″ 185 lbs. forward re-signed for another campaign with the Stingrays but after getting off to a fast start was loaned to Bridgeport Sound Tigers for the second time in his career and made it stick.
He was first with the team for most of the year in 2011/2012 but only appeared in 7 games scoring a goal and 4 assists before succumbing to injury and being returned to Alaska Aces some 4 months later.
He won the Kelly Cup with the Aces in his rookie season and was impressive throughout.
The 24-year old recently signed an spc to play out the remainder of the regular season in southern Connecticut.
His grinding 4th line style of play works well with the young Bridgeport team and with AHL career highs in games played (35), goals (2) and assists (7) he has the ability to dot the score sheet.
It would be no surprise to see him score a higher league contract out of the gate in 2014/2015. After all, he is a Langkow.
Original story: 2/9-14
He did manage to secure a deal to stay with Bridgeport Sound Tigers for 2014/2015 and played in a career high 69 AHL games scoring a best 8 goals but his assists and point production did tick down slightly from the previous campaign.
Heading into the new season the 6th year veteran somewhat surprisingly moves back into the ECHL signing with Elmira Jackals.
He should be invited to a higher league’s training camp and could impress enough with his spark plug style game to earn a spot, so we’ll see where the soon-to-be 26-year old ends up lacing up his skates.
