San Diego Gulls Recall Eddie Matsushima From Tulsa
Mar 6, 2024The San Diego Gulls today announced the American Hockey League (AHL) club has recalled forward Eddie Matsushima from the Tulsa Oilers of the ECHL.
Matsushima, 30 (1/4/94), posted 22-23=45 points with 36 penalty minutes (PIM) and an ECHL career-best +15 rating in 39 games with Tulsa this season. His 24 assists are a new ECHL career high. Matsushima has earned 68-72=140 points with 133 PIM in 190 career ECHL games with the Tulsa Oilers, Orlando Solar Bears, Maine Mariners and Worcester Railers. In 2022-23, he set career-highs in points (28-19=47), goals, games played (65) and PIM (44), led all Oilers in goals and points and was named a 2022-23 ECHL All-Star. Matsushima has also skated in six career Kelly Cup Playoff games, tallying 3-1=4 points with four PIM and a +5 rating.
The 5-11, 185-pound forward appeared in 67 career Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) games with the Pensacola Ice Flyers, collecting 24-39=63 points with 53 PIM and a +22 rating from 2019-21. In 2020-21, Matsushima posted a career-best 10-19=29 points with 27 PIM and a +7 rating in 34 regular-season games. He chipped in 3-2=5 points in four postseason contests, helping the Ice Flyers clinch the organization’s fourth President’s Cup Championship. He also earned SPHL Second All-Star Team honors.
The Verona, Wis. native spent three seasons with the NCAA Division III’s University of Wisconsin–River Falls, scoring 38-46=79 points with 127 PIM in 109 games from 2015-19. In his junior season, Matsushima earned NCAA III (WIAC) All-Conference Team honors after posting 14-14=28 points in 26 games. During the 2018-19 campaign, he earned NCAA III (AHCA) Second Team All-American (West) honors and finished as a NCAA III (WIAC) All-Conference Team member and NCAA III (WIAC) Scholar-Athlete.