The Sudbury Miners and Sanibel Islanders made a move late Saturday evening, as the Miners sent pending restricted free agent forward Matt Puempel, to the Sanibel Islanders in exchange for Sanibel’s 7th round pick in 2019.
Sanibel will take on the remainder of Puempel’s $833,000 cap hit for this season. The 25 year-old winger is scheduled to be a restricted free agent after the season is done.
With this latest transaction, Sudbury again moves a non-producing contract for a draft pick. As it stands right now, Sudbury will pick 20 times in the 2019 draft, barring any further transactions.
Puempel was drafted in the second round of the 2011 CCHL Entry Draft (26th overall) by the Victoria Ronin. Puempel was acquired by the now-defunct Copenhagen Crusaders in a trade with the Ronin involving established winger Patrick Sharp back in 2013. Puempel had yet to play a game with the Miners this year and has spent the full season with their AHL affiliate in North Bay.
Puempel was known as a scoring center with good offensive skills during his junior days with the OHL’s Peterborough Petes.
Puempel's 2009–10 season was a noteworthy rookie OHL season. He led all OHL rookies in goals and points and was second on his team in scoring. His point totals landed him at 39th in overall league scoring and he won the Emms Family Award as well as the CHL Rookie of the Year award
At times, Puempel has shown flashes of being a very good playmaker with good skating who can accelerate well and has an impressive shot. However, this he has yet to transfer those skills into full time CCHL work.
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