Vancouver, B.C. – Vancouver Canucks President, Hockey Operations and Interim General Manager Jim Rutherford announced today that the club has signed defenceman Ashton Sautner to a one-year, two-way contract.
Sautner, 27, has played 18 games with the Abbotsford Canucks this season, collecting one assist and 10 penalty minutes. In 2020.21 he played in two games with the Manitoba Moose (loaned from VAN) and spent most of the season on the Vancouver Canucks taxi squad.
In 260 career AHL games split between Abbotsford (18 GP), Utica (240 GP) and Manitoba (2 GP), Sautner has tallied 50 points (11-39-50) and 170 penalty minutes. He has also appeared in seven Calder Cup Playoff games with the Comets, registering four shots and four penalty minutes.
The 6’1″, 195-pound defenceman made his NHL debut with Vancouver on March 25, 2017 vs Dallas and recorded his first NHL point (assist) on March 31, 2017 vs Columbus. In 23 career NHL games, Sautner has three assists, four penalty minutes and a +2 rating.
A native of Flin Flon, Manitoba, Sautner was originally signed by Vancouver as a free agent on March 14, 2015.
