Former Canucks defenceman lands professional tryout contract

Less than a month after agreeing to a professional tryout contract with the New York Rangers, former Vancouver Canucks defenceman Madison Bowey has found himself signing yet another PTO, this time in the American Hockey League.

This week, the Cleveland Monsters, American Hockey League affiliate of the Columbus Blue Jackets, announced that they've signed Madison Bowey to a professional tryout contract and he'll be on their opening night roster.

Bowey, 29, was traded to the Vancouver Canucks in April 2021 by the Chicago Blackhawks. The following season, Bowey spent the majority of his time with the AHL's Abbotsford Canucks, registering 28 points in 53 and also appeared in two games with Vancouver, but was held without any points.

Last year, the former Stanley Cup Champion headed overseas for the first time in his professional hockey career, signing in the KHL. Throughout the course of the 2023-24 campaign, Bowey played for Dynamo Minsk, Traktor Chelyabinsk and Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo where he had 14 points (four goals, ten assists) and 31 penalty minutes in 51 games.

We'll have to wait and see how this professional tryout goes for the former Vancouver Canuck, but everyone is hoping that he'll be able to turn it into a standard AHL contract relatively quickly. Before that happens though, Bowey and the Cleveland Monsters open up their 2024-25 schedule on Saturday night as they take on the back-to-back Calder Cup champion Hershey Bears.