HEETER GOES BACK TO WALLEYE

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The Grand Rapids Griffins on Thursday assigned goaltender Cal Heeter to the ECHL’s Toledo Walleye.

A first-year Griffin, Heeter has won each of his two starts with the team this season and posts a 2.95 goals against average and a 0.920 save percentage.

The 28-year-old is a perfect 8-0 between the pipes for the Walleye, the only unbeaten among qualified goaltenders in the ECHL. The 6-foot-4 netminder ties for 16th in GAA (2.67), ties for 18th in save percentage (0.912) and has one shutout as he has helped the Walleye post the best record in the league at 16-3.

Heeter, a native of St. Louis, is in his first season back in North America after spending the latter half of the 2014-15 season with Zagreb Medvescak (KHL) and then splitting the 2015-16 campaign between Medvescak and Hamburg (DEL). In 28 games in the KHL, Heeter showed a 9-11-4 record and a 2.76 GAA. Closing last season with Hamburg, Heeter was 11-8 with a 3.00 GAA and a 0.900 save percentage.

He has played in 79 career AHL games since 2012-13, including 76 with Adirondack, and shows a 30-41-6 record to go along with a 2.78 GAA and four shutouts.

On a seven-game point streak, the Griffins host the Milwaukee Admirals on Friday night at 7 p.m. in a battle between the top two teams in the Central Division.

Single-game tickets are currently on sale. Fans can secure their full-season, select-season or group ticket packages by calling (616) 774-4585 ext. 2 or visit griffinshockey.com for more information.