Photograph: Andy Nietupski
The Texas Stars have signed captain Curtis McKenzie to an American Hockey League contract for the 2025-26 season.
McKenzie will return to Cedar Park for his thirteenth skilled season and his ninth with the Stars after recording 15 objectives and 15 assists in 67 video games in 2024-25. He added 5 objectives and 5 assists in 14 postseason video games to assist Texas attain the Western Convention Finals. McKenzie additionally served as a enjoying captain for the Western Convention on the 2025 AHL All-Star Basic and was chosen because the winner of the Yanick Dupre Memorial Award because the IOA/American Specialty AHL Man of the Yr for his work in the area people.
McKenzie has performed 653 AHL video games with Texas, Utica and Chicago, recording 195 objectives and 286 assists for 481 factors. He’s a six-time 20-goal scorer within the AHL, and received the Dudley (Purple) Garrett Memorial Award because the league’s excellent rookie in 2013-14.
In postseason play, McKenzie has 34 objectives and 41 assists for 75 factors in 104 Calder Cup Playoff video games. He has appeared in three Calder Cup Finals (2014, 2018, 2019), successful a championship with the Stars in 2014, and is one among 23 gamers in AHL historical past to skate in at the least 100 postseason contests.
Initially a sixth-round alternative by Dallas within the 2009 NHL Draft, McKenzie has performed 99 video games within the NHL, all with the Stars, and has registered 10 objectives and 13 assists.
