ECHL: Adirondack Thunder Sign Chase McLane

Originally posted on Inside The Rink
By Armand Klisivitch | Last updated Sep 24, 2025 4:48 PM ET

The Adirondack Thunder have announced that they’ve signed rookie forward Chase McLane for the 2025-26 season. McLane, 25, spent his last season of eligibility at Colorado College, where he put up five goals and five assists for 10 points. He becomes just the second player without any prior ECHL experience to sign with the Thunder, joining Jimmy Dowd Jr. McLane and Dowd have spent five years playing together prior to signing their first pro contracts with the Thunder. Heading into training camp, McLane will look to fight for a spot on Adirondack’s bottom six. With the signing of McLane, the Thunder now have 16 forwards and 23 players signed for the 2025-26 season. This means head coach Sylvain Cloutheir will have some tough choices to make before submitting his 21-man roster. I wouldn’t be shocked to see a guy like McLane start the season on reserve.

We've signed forward Chase McLane for the 2025-26 season

Chase was a 2020 NHL Draft Pick for Nashville! Welcome to Adirondack #ADKThunder | @ECHL
— Adirondack Thunder (@ECHLThunder) September 24, 2025

The seventh-round pick of the Nashville Predators in 2020 spent his first four years in the NCAA with Penn State University. In 87 games with the Nittany Lions, he put up 11 goals and 18 assists for 29 points. He was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten Selection during his time at Penn State. Prior to playing at the NCAA level, the Trenton, Michigan, native spent three seasons in the USHL with the Tri-City Storm, where he put up 13 goals and 35 assists for 48 points in 100 games. He spent that season as an alternate captain with the Storm during the 2018-19 season. McLane would be named captain for the 2019-20 season. He would play in just 19 games that season due to an injury.

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