Breaking News: Senators Sign Neil Komadoski; Defenceman signs a multi-year deal
April 1, 2004

Posted by: Bob Howard
Credit: Ottawa Senators.com

SENATORS SIGN NEIL KOMADOSKI

Defenceman signs a multi-year deal

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators Hockey Club today announced that defenceman Neil Komadoski has signed a multi-year deal with the club. He will spend the remainder of the 2003-04 season with Binghamton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on an amateur try-out.

Komadoski, 22, recently completed his collegiate hockey career, playing four seasons with Notre Dame in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). In 146 career games with Notre Dame, Komadoski recorded 10 goals, 52 assists and 300 penalty minutes.

The Chesterfield, Missouri, native and Notre Dame alternate captain has attended the Senators’ summer development camp for each of the past three years and was invited to the 2001 USA Hockey national junior evaluation camp.

Drafted in the third round (81st overall) by Ottawa in 2001, Komadoski was named the winner of the CCHA's fourth annual Mike and Marian Ilitch Humanitarian Award as the league's top citizen on Wednesday, March 17. He also Represented Notre Dame at an NCAA leadership conference in Buena Vista, Florida in May of 2003 after being identified as a leader on his campus.

Komadoski’s father, Neil Komadoski, Sr., played eight seasons in the National Hockey League with the Los Angeles Kings and the St. Louis Blues.

NEIL KOMADOSKI
Defence - Shoots left - 6’2”, 215 lbs.
Born: Feb. 10, 1982 (Chesterfield, Missouri)
Drafted: Ottawa’s 3rd-round choice (81st overall) in 2001