November 28, 2008

Cylcones Loan Rank to Portland

ELMIRA, New York – The Cincinnati Cyclones have loaned former St. Lawrence forward Kyle Rank to Portland of the AHL. The Cyclones are the ECHL affiliate of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens and Nashville Predators.

Rank, 25, played in 16 games for the Cyclones this season, collecting 13 points on three goals and ten assists. Kyle played 25 games in the AHL last season with Wilkes-Barre. He spent the rest of the campaign in 2007-08 with Wheeling (ECHL), netting ten goals and 23 assists for 33 points in 34 games.

The loan of Rank marks the sixth different player the Cyclones to have been loaned or recalled by an American Hockey League team.