While local product Matt Tomkins will be the No. 1 goalie in Bakersfield, it’s wide-open for the back-up AHL spot after Olivier Rodrigue wasn’t offered a new contract because they didn’t see a path to where he could be an NHL No. 2 here. Article content

Either Swede Samuel Jonsson, one of their top five prospects, junior grad Nathaniel Day or ECHL farmhand Connor Ungar, who is not on the ice right now because he had off-season surgery, will be the No. 2 in the American League. Jonsson lost 6-5 to the Calgary prospects last Friday and Day 5-4 on Sunday, both wide-open games. Article content Article content

Jonsson, 21, was the MVP in the Allvenskan, the league below the SHL, last season, in 24 games. That league is equivalent to our ECHL. He forsook a chance to maybe move up a rung to

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