Jersey Auction Results Past and Present, Crnkovic Traded for Two Forwards, Allen Affiliate in 2025-26, Renewing Season Tickets, ECHL Leaders, Fight Rules

Wasn't planning on a blog today, but had a few things to share before heading to Minnesota until Saturday: - Thanks for all the messages and comments on my Mark Duarte story. Those long form stories are a labor of love, but take a lot of time from the upfront research, the interview, and all the post interview research and writing. I feel like Mark should be listed as a co-author with all of the time he gave me for this story. From the one hour we talked about his family and career after practice to the numerous text messages I sent him the last few days asking him to clarify or expand on something we talked about. Even though he was dealing with an injury and wasn't feeling the best, he was very responsive and helpful. Allen fans know what a great player Mark is, but as I say in the story he is even a better person. If you haven't had a chance to read his story here is the link: https://allenamericansblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-mark-duarte-story-success-is-not.html - The live auction after the game on Saturday is a rarity these days. Years ago live auctions were the primary way of selling jerseys. Here are the results of the military specialty jersey auction in 2014. $1200 for the Bootland jersey and $1000 for the Schaafsma jersey would be unheard of in Allen today.McMillin - $600 Rouleau - $400 Lukin - $500 Klotz - $600 Pitton - $600 Maiani - $800 Berube - $900 Kerbashian - $700 Tyler Ludwig - $800 Ehrhardt - $600 Trevor Ludwig - $700 Schaafsma - $1000 Hanson - $700 Hendrikx - $600 Lessard - $600 Asuchak - $700 Fox - $500 Graham - $700 Barnes - $400 Levine - $400 Bootland - $1200 Zion - $700 Matvichuk - $500 Lavoie - $800Here are the results of the Texas jersey auction on Saturday. Thanks to my friend Kristi for staying late on turn your clocks ahead night to capture the results:$700 - Duarte$600 - Watts $600 - Wells$500 - Kulakov$475 - Richardson$475 - Fraser$400 - Crnkovic$400 - Thornton$400 - Brassard$400 - Wilson$400 - Kane$375 - Gavin$375 - Powell$375 - Polino$350 - Matikka$350 - Nault$350 -Jacobs$350 - Gorman$325 - Blaisdell$325 - LeDonne$325 - Isaacson$300 - Perepeluk$275 - Johnson$250 - Westcott$250 - Van Unen$250 - Warmuth  - Yesterday Allen traded the rights to Kyle Crnkovic to Fort Wayne for forwards Michael Gildon and Brad Morrison. Allen is short on forwards with so many injured, so a 2-for-1 trade at this point will be helpful. Crnkovic led Allen in assists (33) and was second in points (44), but had struggled over the last month. In his last 16 games he had four points (0G, 4A). A fresh start, with a playoff bound team maybe just what Kyle needs to get going. I am sure he will be missed in the Allen locker room. He is one of the most popular and funny guys on the team.  Plano native Michael Gildon- Michael Gildon is a 23 year old, 196 pound, 6'2" left shot forward from Plano, TX. He is a rookie who played for Ohio State University last season. He played five seasons for Ohio State and had 38 points (12G, 26A) in 118 games. Gildon played in 23 games for Fort Wayne and tallied eight points (5G, 3A). He earned a bachelor's degree in sports industry (2023) and master's degree in sport coaching (2024) from Ohio States. He was a four-time Academic All-Big Ten selection. Michael was on the US National Development team from 2017-2019. In his last year with the team he 45 points (18G, 27A) in 61 points. Here is the only YouTube video I could find of Gildon's. It is from the time he was on the National Development team. He is the guy on the right. His teammate on the left in the video is the 2019 NHL draft #1 overall pick, Jack Hughes, who now plays for the New Jersey Devils- Brad Morrison is a 28 year old, 170 pound 6'0" left shot forward from Prince George, BC. he is in his seventh pro season, but by my count he is still under 260 games played (247), so he is not a veteran. Morrison has played in 185 ECHL games for Fort Wayne, Indy, Reading, Florida and Kalamazoo. He has averaged 0.82 goals per game in those 85 games (52G, 100A). He has also played 57 AHL games and scored 26 points (13G, 13A).Here are a couple Morrison videos from the archives. The first is his 2017-18 highlight reel when he was playing in the WHL. The second is a 10 year old NHL Entry Draft Preview video on Morrison. He was drafted in the 4th round of the 2015 NHL draft by the New York Rangers    Trevor LeDonne-  Last week Allen signed 25 year old, 6'1" right shot defenseman Trevor LaDonne who just completed his college career at Robert Morris University. LaDonne is from Stoney Creek, Ontario and trains with Mark Duarte and a bunch of other pro athletes in the summer. LaDonne had quite a pro game debut on Friday night. He didn't score because Allen was shutout 4-0, but Trevor was even on plus/minus and led the team in shots with five. Saturday night he assisted on Allen's only goal of the game. His totals after two games is one assist, seven shots and +1.  OTHER COMMENTS- I get asked about Allen's affiliation for next season all