AHL provides Yerkovich to hockey operations workers

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and Chief Govt Officer Scott Howson introduced as we speak that Riley Yerkovich has been employed because the league’s Director, Officiating and Participant Security.

Amongst his duties shall be administration of the AHL’s workers of on-ice officers and of the league’s Participant Security Committee.

A local of Rock Springs, Wyoming, Yerkovich joins the AHL after three seasons within the officiating division on the ECHL. He was beforehand a referee working within the AHL, the ECHL and the IIHF, and was a member of USA Hockey’s Officiating Growth Program.

In operation since 1936, the AHL serves as the highest growth league for the gamers, coaches, managers, executives and broadcasters of each Nationwide Hockey League group. Practically 90 p.c of as we speak’s NHL gamers are American Hockey League graduates, and greater than 130 honored members of the Hockey Corridor of Fame hung out within the AHL of their careers.