Seth Griffith reaches 700 AHL points, anchors Bakersfield offense

Seth Griffith’s 67 points in 71 games in 2025-26 led Bakersfield for the fifth straight season and ranked fifth in the American Hockey League scoring race. For a team that has leaned on turnover everywhere else, Griffith kept producing at the same level, game after game, and that is why he has become the Condors’ offense benchmark.

The milestone that best captures his place in the league came on March 27, when Griffith collected an assist in Bakersfield’s 4-3 win over Texas and became the 27th player in AHL history to reach 700 career points. At that moment, he had 227 goals and 473 assists in 746 regular-season games split across Bakersfield, Manitoba, Rochester, Toronto and Providence. He was also tied for ninth in league scoring with 56 points, including 16 goals and 40 assists, a reminder that even while chasing history he was still driving a playoff race from the front.

Bakersfield’s own extension announcement put the scale of that production into sharper focus. Griffith’s franchise totals stood at 346 games played, 106 goals, 236 assists and 342 points, all team records, when he signed a two-year AHL contract that keeps him in Condorstown through the 2027-28 season. That kind of continuity matters for a club that has built much of its recent identity around Griffith’s ability to anchor the top of the lineup and carry offense when the rest of the roster shifts around him.

The scoring profile has been just as important as the raw totals. Griffith delivered two four-point outings in 2025-26, one Oct. 28 at Colorado and another Dec. 13 in Tucson, the kind of outbursts that can swing a night when Bakersfield needs a game broken open. His playoff work backed up the regular-season numbers too: he led the Condors with five points in their three-game series against Coachella Valley.

His value to Bakersfield has never stopped at the blue line or the scoring sheet. Griffith earned the organization’s Man of the Year award for work with Cares for Kids at the Holidays, the Condors Fighting Cancer initiative and the team’s Ronald McDonald House partnership. In December, he served as captain for KUZZ Cares for Kids at Christmas; in January, he visited the Ronald McDonald House of Bakersfield with Dignity Health; and in February, he helped raise more than $35,000 for local pediatric cancer patients.

The resume is already decorated with AHL recognition, including All-Star Classic selections in 2016 and 2023 and three postseason All-Star honors, with a Second Team nod in 2024-25. In a league defined by movement, Griffith has given Bakersfield something harder to find: a constant producer who has made the Condors’ offense look stable, year after year.