Senators Add Defenceman Lee Sweatt

[Thrillhouse]

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators announced today the club has signed defenceman Lee Sweatt to a one-year, two-way contract.

Sweatt, 25, spent last season in the Vancouver Canucks organization, playing 41 games with the American Hockey League’s Manitoba Moose and three National Hockey League games. With the Moose, Sweatt scored five goals and added nine assists while accumulating 18 penalty minutes. He made his NHL debut in Vancouver on Jan. 26, scoring the game-winning goal in a 2-1 win over the Nashville Predators. He added one assist and two penalty minutes in his three games with Vancouver. An undrafted free-agent, Sweatt signed with Vancouver on May 31, 2010.

The 5-9, 195-pound native of Elburn, Ill., split the 2009-10 season between the Kontinental Hockey League’s Riga Dynamo and TPS Turku of the Finnish National League. With Riga he recorded seven points, including two goals and 18 penalty minutes in 37 games. He scored nine goals, seven assists and added eight penalty minutes in 21 games with TPS Turku

Sweatt played four years with the Western Collegiate Athletic Association’s Colorado College Tigers, before making his professional debut following the completion of his senior season, recording one assist in 11 games on an amateur tyrout with the AHL’s San Antonio Rampage in 2006-07. He spent the 2007-08 season with TPS Turku before joining Salzburg EC of the Austrian Hockey League for 2008-09.

[chilly666]

he has promptly retired

Client Lee "I don't" Sweatt has notified the #Senators that he is retiring from #hockey to pursue outside biz interests.

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[I_am_Belak_2]

Originally Posted by chilly666

he has promptly retired



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Lol what the hell?

[The DZA]

I dont know anything about this guy but let me get this straight.

-plays hockey entire life and doesnt get drafted
-gets an AHL tryout and makes San Antonio
-leaves to play somewhere overseas where his chances are better at playing
-gets signed to play in the AHL and plays so well he manages to play in a few NHL games with a team that made it to the Stanley Cup
-offered a 2 way contract in the NHL/AHL with a young team giving everyone a chance.
-retires


I cant be the only one who finds this odd.

[DUSTER76]

prob. cant shake whatever monkey he has on his back.

[Canes13]

Doesn't he have a brother? Maybe it's a mix up between the two. Otherwise this is one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen.

[ThrowdownSJ408]

ha, Ottawas luck

[antonio106]

Ottawa's now stacked with young defensemen, so the chances that he would crack the top 6 were slim to nil; maybe a half dozen NHL games at the tail end of the season at best. Still, what a bitch for not even taking that!

What lucrative business interests could a 25 year old have that would warrant jumping ship?

[antonio106]

Originally Posted by Canes13

Doesn't he have a brother? Maybe it's a mix up between the two. Otherwise this is one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen.

Someone reminded me that he injured his foot blocking a Shea Weber shot last year, only to outright break it during a Canucks practice later on in the season...is it possible that it never healed properly?

[FurnaceFace]

crazy , last year it was comier this year him.