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Orlando's Fejes Named ECHL Player Of The Week

Orlando's Fejes Named ECHL Player Of The Week

Fejes scored five goals, including a pair of game-winners, and added two assists for seven points in three games last week.

Jan 4, 2022 by Joe Babik
Orlando's Fejes Named ECHL Player Of The Week

Hunter Fejes of the Orlando Solar Bears is the Inglasco ECHL Player of the Week for Dec. 27-Jan. 2.

Fejes scored five goals, including a pair of game-winners, and added two assists for seven points in three games last week.

The 27-year-old posted three points (2g-1a) in a 4-3 win at Florida on Wednesday, had a goal and an assist in a 5-4 victory against South Carolina on Friday and added a pair of goals in a 3-2 win at Greenville on Saturday.

A native of Anchorage, Alaska, Fejes has skated in seven games with the Solar Bears this season after starting the year with Znojmo Orli HC in the Austrian-based ICE Hockey League, where he had 13 points (6g-7a) in 23 games.

Fejes has totaled 129 points (65g-54a) in 147 career ECHL games with Orlando, Wheeling and Rapid City while adding 14 points (4g-10a) in 89 career American Hockey League games with Springfield, Tucson, Toronto, Hershey, Rockford and Manitoba.

Prior to turning pro, Fejes recorded 56 points (26g-30a) in 138 career games at Colorado College.

On behalf of Hunter Fejes, a case of pucks will be donated to an Orlando youth hockey organization by Inglasco, the exclusive puck supplier of the ECHL. Since beginning its sponsorship of the award in 2000-01, Inglasco has donated more than 45,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities.

Runners-Up: Branden Troock, Allen (5 gp, 5g, 2a, 7 pts.) and Darik Angeli, Kansas City (3 gp, 3g, 3a, 6 pts.).          

Also Nominated: Justin Vaive (Cincinnati), Joe Pendenza (Florida), Liam Pecararo (Greenville), Randy Gazzola (Toledo), Dylan Sadowy (Tulsa), Justin Almeida (Wheeling) and Carter Johnston (Wichita).