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Maple Grove’s Birkholz Agrees to Another Year With Cincinnati
The former Blake School hockey player started with the Cyclones last year.
Maple Grove native Josh Birkholz has agreed to a deal with the Cincinnati Cyclones to return for the 2013-14 season, ECHL.com reported.
Birkholz played for The Blake School for the 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons, according to NHL.com. He then played in the United States Hockey League for the Fargo Force in 2008-09 and for the University of Minnesota in 2009-10.
He continued his career in the Western Hockey League with the Everett Silvertips in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons.
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The Florida Panthers drafted Birkholz in the third round (67th overall) of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He also played four games in the American Hockey League for the San Antonio Rampage.
Last year, his 15 points over 47 regular season games made him fifth in scoring among first-year players on the Cyclones, an ECHL affiliate of the NHL’s Florida Panthers and Nashville Predators.
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