Canes Reassign Gibbons to Charlotte

RALEIGH, NC - Don Waddell, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has reassigned forward Brian Gibbons to the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League (AHL).

Gibbons, 31, has played 15 NHL games with the Hurricanes this season. He has posted 13 points (3g, 10a) in 14 AHL games with the Checkers in 2019-20. The 5'8", 175-pound forward has registered 67 points (25g, 42a) in 204 career NHL games with Pittsburgh, Columbus, New Jersey, Anaheim, Ottawa and Carolina. Gibbons has also skated in 343 career AHL games, tallying 173 points (58g, 115a). The Braintree, Mass., native signed with the Hurricanes as a free agent on July 4, 2019.