Josh Prudden new center for Broncos Sterzing

The 29-year-old Prudden is a very consistent, hard-working and team-serving player who wins a lot of face-offs, can be used in power plays and penalty killings, and also has a good hand offensively.

After completing his college career with the University of New Hampshire Wildcats, Prudden signed with the Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullys of the ECHL in 2003. There the San Jose Sharks noticed him and signed him for their AHL farm team, the Cleveland Barons. In the summer of 2005, Prudden received a one-year, two-way contract from the San Jose Sharks, but was never called up to the NHL team. Since Prudden played well in all areas but didn't particularly stand out anywhere, but above all because he was considered too small at 178 cm and 88 kg and didn't play enough physically as a defensive center for AHL standards, the San Jose Sharks didn't offer him one another contract more.

At the start of the 2006/07 season with the Fresno Falcons in the ECHL, he was recalled to the AHL twice by the Worcester Sharks on trial contracts before he was able to sign a permanent contract with the AHL team again in March. In February 2008, after a short stint with the Manitoba Moose, he finally ended up back with the Fresno Falcons in the ECHL. It wasn't until the end of October, two weeks after the start of the 2008/09 season, that he got a new contract there, but due to the Falcons' serious financial difficulties, he decided to move to Vaasa Sport in the second Finnish league after just eight games. However, even in the Mestis the season was anything but satisfactory. In 2009/10 he was brought to the Las Vegas Wranglers by his former coach at the Fresno Falcons and had a passable season there in a mediocre team (16 goals in 73 games). Last year, Prudden played in Belfast in the EIHL and literally experienced a rebirth: 60 games, 26 goals, 46 assists, 72 points, 74 penalty minutes and 15th place in the EIHL scoring ranking are impressive proof that he has not forgotten how to play hockey has. After all, Prudden has 85 points in 250 AHL games and 136 points in 187 ECHL games. In terms of player type, Prudden fits exactly into the concept of Oly Hicks, who prefers to rely on the strength of the collective rather than individual stars. The Broncos fans who already took Randall Gelech to their hearts will also enjoy Josh Prudden.

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