Keeper signs a one-year deal with HK Poprad in Slovakia
After spending his full career in North America, Cross Lake local Brady Keeper will make his first stop overseas for the coming 2024-25 hockey season.
Keeper spent last season with the Montreal Canadiens' American Hockey League affiliate club, the Laval Rocket, on a two-way deal.
The 28-year-old was an undrafted free agent signing by the Florida Panthers out of Maine University in 2019, and has played most of his career in the American League, only suiting up for two games in the big leagues.
Prior to joining Maine at the age of 20, Keeper played four seasons in the MJHL for the OCN Blizzard (now Northern Blizzard), where he put up 133 points and a whopping 444 penalty minutes in just 161 games. In his collegiate career the 6-foot-2 blueliner put up 44 points and 146 penalty minutes in 73 games.
Injuries have limited Keeper to 57 combined regular-season AHL games over the past three seasons, during which he’s spent time with both the Canadiens and Canucks organizations.
He had a goal and three assists with 53 PIMs and was a +1 rating in 22 games for Laval last season.
Keeper will be joining a Poprad team which had the best regular season record in the Slovak Extraliga last season.
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