Springfield, Massachusetts. …The American Hockey League announced today that San Jose Barracudas forward Andrew PoturalskiRochester Americans move forward Noah Östlund and Texas Star Goalkeeper Remi Poirier Has been selected as the league winner for March.
Poturalski, AHL Players This MonthIn 12 games in March, 9 goals and 13 assists were recorded, with a league-high 22 points.
Poturalski's month included seven more-point efforts, starting with a goal and defeated Henderson 4-1 on March 1. The next night, he won his second career in a five-pointer game in his second career, scoring goals and four assists in 6-5 overtime. Poturalski scored two goals and assists in Tucson on March 16 and won an 8-6 victory at Bakersfield on March 22, including a natural hat trick in the third stage.
Since returning to the Barracuda lineup on February 15, Poturalski has won a record third-professional AHL scoring championship, scoring 28 points in 18 games after a game against his parents, San Jose Sharks. The ninth-grade professional from Williamsville, NY leads the league's career-high 30 goals with 73 points in 59 games this season. In 527 regular season AHL games against San Jose, Coachella Valley, Chicago, San Diego and Charlotte, Poturalski scored a total of 161 goals and 332 assists, with 493 points. He added 26 goals and 47 assists in 81 playoff games, winning the Calder Cup title with the Checkers (2019) and Wolves (2022), before returning to the Firebirds finals in 2023 and 2024.
Poturalski signed with the Sharks on July 1, 2024, and he has received one assist in three NHL games this season and three assists in NHL professional games with San Jose, Seattle and Carolina.
Östlund, AHL's newest show this monthIn 11 games for Rochester in March, he recorded nine goals and five assists and scored 14 points.
Östlund scored on March 1 in Syracuse and on March 7 in Laval. He registered his first AHL hat-trick in Syracuse on March 22, converting once in power, once mean and with even strength in a 4-1 Amerks win. Östlund scored his third cycle goal in a 4-3 win over Utica on March 23 and another brief goal in a 6-0 win over Bridgeport on March 28. He beat Bridgeport 6-0 on March 28. He held a three-point night in Syracuse on March 29 and scored a May goal on March 30 on March 30, won May goals in the May 3 match and scored five consecutive games in five consecutive games, seven consecutive games in seven consecutive games, and seven consecutive games in seven consecutive games, and seven consecutive goals in seven consecutive games, and seven consecutive goals in seven consecutive games.
Buffalo was the first round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft (No. 16 in total), with Östlund scoring a total of 18 goals and 17 assists in 43 games against the Amerks this season, with 35 points. The 21-year-old Stockholmian Sweden's all-AHL rookie with Plus/Minus rating Plus-20 has ranked fourth in the league with 14 goals since the All-Star break.
Poirier, AHL goalkeeper this monthonly 9 goals were allowed in 230 shots in March, with an average of 1.27 goals, an average of 0.961, a percentage savings and 2 closings.
Poirier made 29 saves on 4-0 in Chicago on March 2 before stopping 28 shots when he defeated Milwaukee on March 5, plus all three gunfights. He beat Cleveland 38 in 39 shots and beat Cleveland on March 14, and won 33 wins in 33 years and then won 33 wins on March 18. On March 21, 3-0 ROAD won, with 29 saves in Chicago on March 23 and 21 racing performances in Cleveland on March 29, improving to 12-2-2 in his last 16 decisions.
Poirier earned a third-year pro from Farnham, Quebec, with 15-8-2 in 26 games in the Central Division-leading Texas this season, 2.55 GAA, 0.909 percentage of the profit margin and 3 closings. He has competed with stars in 80 professional AHL games, showing up with a 2.89 GAA, a .906 percentage savings and four closing matches with a 41-29-8 record. Poirier was the sixth round of Dallas in the 2020 NHL Draft.
