Agozzino heads to Switzerland after 847-game AHL career

Andrew Agozzino is taking his next step overseas after finishing another productive run in Tucson, a move that closes one of the American Hockey League’s most accomplished veteran careers and sends him to EHC Biel-Bienne in Switzerland’s National League. At 34, Agozzino leaves North America with 847 AHL games on his ledger, a total that places him among the league’s most durable and reliable offensive forwards of his era.

His final Tucson season fit the profile that kept teams leaning on him. Agozzino skated in 56 games for the Roadrunners in 2025-26 and finished with 39 points, scoring 19 goals and adding 20 assists while serving as an assistant captain. Tucson also recognized his off-ice impact by naming him its winner of the 2025-26 IOA/American Specialty AHL Man of the Year award, another reminder that his value stretched well beyond the scoresheet.

The production was only part of the story. Agozzino reached the NHL Opening Night roster for the first time in his 15-year pro career to begin the season, then was assigned back to Tucson after dressing in two games with Utah. Even without a point in that brief NHL look, the assignment underscored how uncommon and late that opportunity was for a player who has spent so much of his career as a premier AHL presence.

The numbers behind the AHL run are striking. Agozzino piled up 662 points, 284 goals and 378 assists, with 98 power-play goals and 46 game-winning goals. He also posted 18 points in 22 Calder Cup Playoff games, a playoff record that shows he could keep producing when the games tightened and the stakes rose.

His path through the league reads like a map of AHL development geography: Peoria, Lake Erie, San Antonio, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Chicago, Colorado, Belleville, San Jose, San Diego and Tucson. Along the way, he was selected to the AHL All-Star Classic in 2013 and 2019, earned San Jose’s team winner of the 2022-23 AHL Man of the Year award, and reached the 600-point mark in a game against San Diego in January 2025.

That résumé helps explain why the move to Biel/Bienne feels less like a farewell than a continuation. Agozzino was a classic AHL difference-maker, a player who stabilized lineups, filled leadership roles and still delivered offense year after year. His first team outside North America now becomes the next chapter, but the league he leaves behind will remember him as one of its most complete veteran forwards.