PEORIA SIGNS PLAYOFF HERO JM PIOTROWSKI
January 8, 2025 - 04:35 pm
PEORIA, IL— The Peoria Rivermen announced on Wednesday that they have signed forward JM Piotrowski ahead of their weekend matchup with the Huntsville Havoc.
Piotrowski, a native of Dallas, Texas, has been a staple for the Rivermen over the past three seasons. Piotrowski scored the overtime-winning goal in 2022 to help secure Peoria’s first-ever President’s Cup championship and had 48 points in the regular season of that year. Piotrowski netted 51 points in 2022-23 and accumulated 46 points in 55 games during the 2023-24 season. That same year he contributed six points in seven playoff games while helping the Rivermen clinch their second President’s Cup title. In total, Piotrowski has garnered 165 points in 230 SPHL games in his career. All but 30 of those 165 points came while wearing a Rivermen uniform.
Before playing professionally, Piotrowski played college hockey at the NCAA-division I level with the Yale University Bulldogs. He also joined the USHL’s Sioux Falls Stampede, where he helped the Stampede win one of American junior hockey’s most coveted prizes, the USHL’s Clark Cup.
Piotrowski will be available for the Rivermen this Friday and Saturday as second-place Peoria takes on the first-place Huntsville Havoc in Huntsville, Alabama. It will be Peoria’s, and Piotrowski’s first trip to Propst Arena since Game One of the 2024 President’s Cup Finals.
