Hcap renews with Heim for 3 years and announces Nick Shore

Hockey club Ambrì-Piotta André Heim has renewed his contract with Leventina in advance by joining the White and Blue until the end of the 2024/2025 season.

Born in 1998, the center arrived at Leventina in the summer of 2021 from Bern and in his first season at Biancoblo he played 55 matches, scoring 14 goals and 16 assists. Raised in the youth sector of the capital club, he made 253 National League matches in his career with 86 points (29 goals and 57 assists).

The renewal is being dispatched by HCAP itself, which at the same time announced the appointment of American center Nick Shore until the end of the 2022/2023 season and a season agreement with Canadian Brandon McMillan as the seventh white-blue foreigner.

Drafted in 2011 by the Los Angeles Kings, Shore, born in 1992, made his NHL debut in the 2014/2015 season with the California franchise. In his outdoor career, Nick Shore (185 cm x 88 kg), in addition to the Kings outfit, has worn the jerseys of members of the Ottawa Senators, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs and Winnipeg Jets who have played a total of 304 NHL games. 18 goals and 41 assists. Shore also played two seasons in the AHL with Kings Farm, Manchester Monarchs, scoring 38 goals and 61 assists in 129 games and a Calder Cup (AHL champion title) in the 2014/15 season.

In the 2018/2019 season, the 29-year-old moved from Denver to Europe where he played in KHL with Metallurg Magnitogorsk 43 matches (21 points, 5 goals, 16 assists). Then, in the 2020/2021 tournament, Shore played 5 matches in Slovakia (10 points) with Dukla Trencin’s jersey before moving to Zug. With Bulls Nick, he played 35 matches, which contributed to the Swiss champions title with 35 points, including 8 in 13 playoffs. The American player returned last season to play in the KHL in the Sibir Novosibirsk shirt, scoring 26 points (10 goals and 16 assists) in 49 matches. Internationally, the center won the gold medal in the 2010 FIFA U-18 World Cup and played the 2022 Beijing Olympics with the All-Stars and Stripes team.

Born in the 1990s (180 cm x 86 kg), drafted by the Anaheim Ducks in the third round, Macmillan made 178 NHL appearances and scored 39 points (16 goals, 23 assists) with the Anaheim, Arizona and Vancouver franchises and 167 AHL appearances scoring 36 goals and 41 assists. In his career, Macmillan played a total of 239 KHL matches, achieving 51 goals and 52 assists, and in 2017 he also participated in the Spengler Cup with the Dinamo Riga shirt. Last season McMillan played 48 games in the HCAP jersey with 14 goals and 9 assists.