Dustin Gazley remains with the Foxes

HCB Alto Adige Alperia officially announces that it has reached an agreement to renew the contract of the Italian national team striker Dustin Gazley Also for the 2024/25 season. This is the 35-year-old’s fifth in the red and white shirt.

Gazley is the guarantee of performances, goals and assists. Last year, he once again confirmed himself among the team’s top scorers, with 18 goals (top scorer) and 13 assists in 48 regular season matches, and also topped the internal classification in the playoffs, with 6 goals and 5 assists. Thanks to his acrobatic play, he has long become one of the most beloved players in the Bolzano region, as well as the player with the best goalscoring average among the Foxes in the last five years (194 points in 235 games, score of 83). goals and 111 assists).

A few weeks ago, the striker also made his debut for the Azzurra, playing in Serie A Group A in Bolzano, where he scored a goal and two assists.

Occupation

Gazley began to appear in the NCAA collegiate tournament, which opened the door for him in 2011 to the ECHL, where in three seasons between the Elmira Jackals and Reading Royals he scored 160 points in 147 games, with a score of 48 goals and 112 assists. Performances that also earned him his first experiences in the American Hockey League, a league he would remain in permanently until 2018: in one season with the Binghamton Senators and in five with the Hershey Bears, he collected 160 points in 317 games (63+77). In 2018 he tried the overseas experience, settling in Salzburg: with the Red Bulls he scored 40 points in 54 matches between the championship and the Hockey Champions League (18 goals and 36 assists), stopping in the semi-finals both in the ICE against Vienna and in the Hockey Champions League against Monaco. After a short break due to the birth of his first child, in November 2019 he signed for the Swedish top flight club Mura EK, where he played 31 matches and scored 20 points (9+11). Then landing in Alto Adige.

“Bolzano has become a second home for me and my family – explains Gazley. I have had wonderful years and I want to create beautiful memories with this shirt: the desire is to lift the cup, because we have built a lot in recent seasons.” Our group deserves to reach the end. We will work hard to achieve this, it will be a long season and, like the others, it will be difficult and very balanced. We realize our potential and our mission will be to be ready from day one. Representing Italy in the World Cup has strengthened my connection to this land even more, so next season will have an even more special flavor for me.

Learn more about Dustin Gazley: https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/38239/dustin-gazley