Blue Jackets Recall Kole Sherwood from Monsters
Feb 16, 2020The AHL’s Cleveland Monsters, top affiliate of the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets, announced Sunday that the Blue Jackets recalled forward Kole Sherwood from the Monsters. In three appearances for Columbus this season, Sherwood posted two penalty minutes and added 8-3-11 with 50 penalty minutes and a -7 rating in 34 appearances for the Monsters.
A 6’1”, 199 lb. right-shooting native of New Albany, OH, Sherwood, 23, appeared in five games for Columbus spanning this season and last season and is the first Columbus-area native to appear in a regular-season game for the Blue Jackets. Sherwood additionally tallied 24-12-36 with 123 penalty minutes and a -6 rating in 92 career AHL appearances for Cleveland spanning parts of three seasons from 2016-20.
Prior to his professional career, Sherwood notched 75-104-179 with 169 penalty minutes and a +33 rating in 180 career OHL appearances for the London Knights, Flint Firebirds and Kitchener Rangers spanning three seasons from 2015-18 and heled London claim the 2016 OHL Championship. Sherwood also appeared in three games for the USHL’s Youngstown Phantoms in 2014-15, supplying 1-1-2 with a +2 rating.