Release from 15.05.2022

Gazley signs contract extension with Bolzano

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The HCB Südtirol Alperia has announced the extension of Dustin Gazley's contract. The 33-year-old forward, who also played for win2day ICE Hockey League side EC Red Bull Salzburg in the past, will thus enter his third season in Bolzano. He collected 85 points in 97 league games for the Foxes.

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Dustin Gazley started his career in the NCAA University Championship and moved to the ECHL in 2011, where he scored a total of 160 points (48 goals and 112 assist) in 147 games in three seasons between the Elmira Jackals and Reading Royals. Those stellar performances gave him his first steps in the American Hockey League, where he was under contract until 2018, first for one year with the Binghamton Senators and then for five with the Hershey Bears. In those six seasons, he recorded a total of 160 points in 317 matches (63+77). In 2018, he came overseas for the first time and signed with Salzburg: in the Red Bulls jersey, he collected 40 points (18 goals and 36 assists) from 54 games between the championship and the Champions Hockey League. After one season with Mora IK in the Allsvenskan, Gazley moved to South Tyrol. He was the Foxes' second-leading scorer in the two previous years: between the championship and the Champions Hockey League, the forward made 104 appearances, scoring 90 points with an average of 0.86 per game.

"My family and I are happy to return to Bolzano," said Gazley, "in August we will start the hard preparation for the new season, in which we have to make up for a messed-up year.