Ex-Rangers Goalie Prospect Signs In Switzerland

Slovak goalie Adam Húska, 27, has signed a contract with HC Lugano through the remainder of the season, the National League club announced on Tuesday.

Lugano had an emergency need for a goalie after Joren Van Pottelberghe sustained a broken ankle in an off-ice accident and is expected to miss approximately three months. The team’s other goalie Niklas Schlegel is also out with a leg injury and is expected back in late October.

A native of Zvolen, Slovakia, Húska has played abroad since he was 18, save for three games in the Slovak Extraliga during the 2020-21 pandemic season. He played junior hockey for the USHL’s Green Bay Gamblers and then three years of college hockey for the University of Connecticuit Huskies.

Húska was picked in the seventh round of the 2015 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Rangers and spent three years in the organization, mostly in the AHL but he did play one NHL game for the Rangers in December 2021, allowing seven goals on 39 shots in a 7-3 loss to the Colorado Avalanche.

Húska spent the last two seasons in the KHL with Torpedo Nizhny Novogorod, but was without a contract at the start of this season.

Internationally, Húska has represented Slovakia at two U-18 World Championships, two World Junior Championships and two senior men’s World Championships.

Lugano has won five of its first eight National League games so far this season, and sits second in the 14-team league. The team’s roster includes American Mark Arcobello, Czechs Jiří Sekáč and Radim Zohorna, Canadian Daniel Carr and Swiss defenseman Mirco Müller.

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