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Another new player touches down in Belleville

By Brock Ormond Apr 8, 2026 | 1:07 PM

Photo: Belleville Senators

Another fresh face joins the Belleville Senators for their last push toward the Calder Cup Playoffs.

B-Sens General Manager Matt Turek announced today that the club has signed forward Luke Mistelbacher to an American Hockey League contract for the 2026-27 season.  

Mistelbacher will join the Belleville Sens on an amateur tryout for the remainder of the 2025-26 campaign. 

The 20-year-old from Steinbach, Manitoba, just completed his fourth junior season in the Western Hockey League with the Brandon Wheat Kings, where he registered 88 points (42 goals, 46 assists) in 67 games, along with four points (three goals, one assist) in four playoff games.

Prior to this season, Mistelbacher played the previous three WHL campaigns with the Swift Current Broncos and, over the course of his junior career, collected 205 points (110 goals, 140 assists) in 257 games. 

Ranked 119th for the 2024 National Hockey League Draft by NHL Central Scouting, Mistelbacher also has two games of American Hockey League experience. He scored a goal over a pair of appearances with the Iowa Wild (AHL affiliate of the Minnesota Wild) in 2024-25. 

This move follows the signings of goaltender Kevin Riedler from Penn State in the NCAA and Hoyt Stanley from Cornell University.