Boots Signs Contract with Kings, is Assigned to ECHL Affiliate

Former Oswego State Lakers F Ian Boots has signed a contract with the Los Angeles Kings and has been assigned to play with the Ontario Reign of the ECHL, the AA-level affiliate for the team.  The Lakers were runners-up for the National Championship last week in Lake Placid, New York, with Boots finishing his senior campaign with 28 points in 30 games and being named to the 2012 NCAA All-Tournament Team.  A D-I transfer to the Lakers, Boots finished his junior year with the team in 2010-2011 by winning First-Team All-SUNYAC honors and being named a Second Team East All-American in his first of two years in Lakerland.

Before transferring to Oswego State, Boots played for Ohio State and scored 29 points in 50 games in two seasons in the CCHA.  He played a year in juniors for the Cornwall Colts and Brockville Braves, both of the CJHL, and scored 74 points in 54 games.  He is a native of Akwesasne, New York, an unincorporated native community on both sides of the New York-Ontario, Canada border with roots from a group belonging to the Mohawk Native American tribe, with the New York side resting mostly on the St. Regis Indian Reservation.