Release from 02.04.2023

Zell signs Tyler Cuma

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EK Zell signs Austro-Canadian Tyler Cuma, first round pick of the Minnesota Wilds in 2008, and provides him with a 2 year contract.

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Zell sign Austro-Canadian Tyler Cuma from HC TIWAG Innsbruck. The Scarborough Ontario Canada born defenseman learned the hockey trade with the Mississauga Reps before docking with the Ottawa67's in the OHL in 2006. In four years he played over 200 games for the 67's, and in 2008, the year he was drafted by the Minnesota Wilds, he played in the U18 World Championship for the country of his birth and was crowned World Champion with Team Canada.

In 2010, Tyler took the next step in his career and joined the Houston Aeros in the American Hockey League. In the 2011/12 season Cuma also played his first and only NHL game for the Minnesota Wilds, but remained without scoring points. He played his last AHL year for the Iowa Wild's before the Graz99ers brought him to Austria for the first time. After a year in Styria, his journey continued to the federal capital Vienna. With the Caps, for whom he was on the ice for a total of three seasons, Tyler celebrated the title in the 2016/17 season.

A knee injury forced Tyler to sit out the entire 2018/19 season. The Austro-Canadian first signed on with HCI for the 2019/20 season. After having to sit out the following year again, this time for family reasons, he donned the jersey of the Dornbirn Bulldogs in the 2021/22 season, rather returning to Innsbruck in the summer of 2022, for whom he played another 49 games in the Ice Hockey League this past season. In total Cuma played 1 NHL, 204 AHL, 216 OHL & 305 ICE Hockey League games in his career so far.