The New Jersey Devils signed one of the most zenith faculty detached brokers Thursday, with Western Michigan ahead Dylan Wendt becoming a member of them on a two-year guarantee.
Wendt will first of all connect the Utica Comets, the Devils’ AHL associate, on an AHL beginner tryout for the residue of the season. His two-year entry-level offer with the Devils will get started within the 2024-25 marketing campaign.
Getting into this season, Wendt had mixed to attain 10 objectives and 25 issues in 73 occupation video games at WMU. He penniless via to develop into considered one of WMU’s most powerful gamers and, within the procedure, one of the most population’s zenith 10 purpose scorers.
The 23-year-old completed the season with 23 objectives and 44 issues in 38 video games. Wendt led WMU with 9 power-play objectives and four-game profitable objectives. He additionally led the population in taking pictures proportion with a good fortune fee of 26.1%.
Wendt’s person transformation additionally performed an instrumental position in WMU taking the later step beneath third-year tutor Pat Ferschweiler. WMU (21-16-1) reached its 0.33 consecutive NCAA Section I males’s event, which is the longest streak in program historical past. It’s additionally the primary day WMU has reached the event in 3 instantly seasons.
Wendt had an lend a hand in WMU’s opening-round tournament that it could sooner or later lose to top-seeded Michigan Shape in extra time within the regional semifinal of the Midwest Area.
