After two seasons spent in the AHL with the Calgary Wranglers, forward David Silye has elected to continue his career overseas. The 27-year-old pivot has signed a contract with Ferencvárosi TC, a Hungarian club that competes in the ICEHL, the top professional hockey league in Central Europe. Silye is a former point-per-game college hockey scorer who was the CCHA Forward of the Year in 2022-23, back when he was playing for Minnesota State-Mankato.
Since turning pro, Silye has struggled to translate his offensive production from the NCAA to the AHL. In 115 career AHL games across each of the last two seasons, Silye has scored just 24 points. While he was able to maintain his grip on a regular AHL lineup spot with the Wranglers, he wasn’t able to show enough signs of development that may have given the organization reason to offer him a contract extension. Now, he’ll head to the ICEHL and be teammates with another former high-scoring NCAA player, Carter Savoie. Ferencvárosi TC are a historic club in Hungary who made their ICEHL debut last season, going 17-24-7 and missing the playoffs.
More player movement from around the hockey world:
- Former AHL defenseman Turner Ottenbreit has elected to return to the KHL after two consecutive seasons in the AHL. The 6’3″, 195-pound defenseman scored 13 points in 57 games for the Wranglers last season, and in 2024-25 he played in 49 games for the Milwaukee Admirals, as well as seven AHL playoff contests. A WHL champion from his days with the Seattle Thunderbirds, Ottenbreit established himself as an AHLer in 2021-22 with the Iowa Wild, but left for the KHL in 2023-24, signing with Kunlun Red Star. The club has since been rebranded the Shanghai Dragons, and they’ve signed Ottenbreit for a contract next season.
- ECHL Savannah Ghost Pirates captain Logan Drevitch has announced his retirement from professional hockey. The ECHL All-Star served as the Ghost Pirates’ captain for the last two seasons. He concludes his pro career having spent it entirely in Savannah, for the entirety of the franchise’s history. He scored 178 points in 274 career ECHL games, and led the Ghost Pirates to their first playoff berth in franchise history this past season. Before turning pro, Drevitch played four seasons of college hockey at Merrimack, scoring 49 points in 114 games.
Hah, just looked it up; Drevitch’s father is Scott Drevitch, who had a very long career as a top scoring defenseman at pretty much every level he ever played, and is the answer to an odd trivia question: who was the final New Haven Nighthawk, Albany Chopper, and (original) Maine Mariner active in pro hockey?