After scoring 40+ points over 4 seasons (50+ in two of those campaigns), 7th year center Kael Mouillierat(21) takes his game overseas for 2016/2017 joining Lulea HF of the SHL.
He spent last year under contract with Pittsburgh Penguins but only had a single big league appearance skating 67 AHL games with affiliate Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
The speedy forward that sees the complete sheet of ice when he plays appeared in his first 6 NHL games in the previous season while under contract with New York Islanders.
He scored his first goal and assist before being reassigned back to Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
The 28-year old may have been sensing it would be tough to pick up another contract has decided it’s probably best to move his game overseas to continue.
He should absolutely tear up the score sheet in Sweden.
Kael Mouillierat(48) New York Islanders
New York Islanders‘ 5th year undrafted left wing Kael Mouillierat(48) has worked hard for every break he’s received.
Signed on the opening day of free agency to his first big league contract, a one-year two-way deal. He spent his first full season 2013-2014 in the AHL with St. John’s IceCaps, where he eclipsed all his career high scoring marks tallying 20 goals and 33 assists in 60 games and added another 7 strikes and 6 helpers in 21 postseason contests that only ended in the 2014 Calder Cup Finals.
The small-ish looking 6′ 190 lbs. forward looks to likely hit a new best in goals (he already has 18 in 51 games) with affiliate Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
First, he will have to be reassigned back down, as patience and hard work pay off and he received his first call-up. Although fairly quiet in his first two appearances he struck for his first point, a key assist, and then got his first NHL goal in his third, a big 5-1 victory.
All probably a bit surreal for a guy that started his first three seasons under agreement with Idaho Steelheads and played his entire rookie season with the ECHL team, where he finished with 119 points in 117 games. yup.
The 27-year old is set to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the current campaign but you can place bets he’ll be retained to stay where he is to continue his steady, storybook development.
Kael Mouillierat(20) Idaho Steelheads
Undrafted 3rd year forward Kael Mouillierat(20) must have been holding out to see if any higher league offers trickled in after his best pro season yet in 2011/2012 on recall by Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
He finished the year having played a career high 44 AHL games and achieved bests in scoring with 8 goals and 15 assists for 23 points and a mighty impressive +16 plus/minus.
With no takers, he once again signed with Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL for a third straight season. He’s an asset on the ice though as the 6′ 185 lbs. skater is basically a point per game guy with the team and in his first appearance of the 2012/2013 season he hit the scoresheet for both a goal and an assist.
Once the NHL shakes hands on a new CBA, the 25-year will almost certainly continue his playing time in the AHL.
This highlight reel goal is a thing of beauty.