Milner, 24, joins Iowa for the third time this season. He served as the Wild's backup netminder in three games last month and earlier this month spent a single day with Iowa.
Milner, who ranks fourth in the ECHL in save percentage (.922) and fifth in goals against average (2.31), has gone 8-5-1 in 15 games with the Mallards this season. The 6' 1", 197-pound Pittsburgh native last night saw his five-game winning streak halted when he suffered a loss in relief despite giving up just a single goal and making 14 saves as the Mallards fell to the Brampton Beast 4-3.
Milner last season went 4-2-0 and turned in a 2.95 goals against average and a .904 save percentage in eight AHL games with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. Milner spent the bulk of last year with the ECHL's Stockton Thunder, for whom he posted a 2.84 goals against average, a .907 save percentage and two shutouts while going 9-14-2 in 25 games.
Milner's is the fifth AHL call-up for a Mallard this season. Milner will join defenseman Benjamin Dieude-Fauvel, who was called up from the Mallards earlier this month, when he arrives in Des Moines.
Milner turned professional last season after winning two national championships in four years at Boston College. Milner went 64-20-5 while turning in a 2.23 goals against average, a .919 save percentage and six shutouts in 93 games over the course of his standout collegiate career.
Milner helped Boston College to the NCAA title as a freshman in 2010 and again as a junior in 2012. He acted a backup during BC's run to the 2010 championship before taking a leading role in the 2012 triumph. Then a junior, Milner was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2012 NCAA tournament and also earned NCAA Frozen Four All-Tournament honors after going 4-0 with a 0.50 goals against average, a .982 save percentage and two shutouts during the tournament. Milner's goals against average was tied for the best in tournament history while his save percentage was the highest since the tournament expanded beyond four teams in 1972. He capped off his superb tournament effort by making 27 saves in BC's 4-1 victory over Ferris State in the national championship game. The NCAA title was the crowning achievement of a season that also saw Milner and his teammates win the Hockey East regular season and tournament titles as well as the Beanpot and Icebreaker tournaments.
Over the 2011-12 campaign as a whole, Milner went 29-5-0 while registering a 1.66 goals against average, a .911 save percentage and three shutouts in 34 games. His .853 winning percentage was the best in the nation. He completed his college career in 2012-13 by playing in all but one of the Eagles' 38 games, going 22-11-4 and recording a 2.66 goals against average, a .911 save percentage and two shutouts.
During Milner's time in Chestnut Hill, BC not only claimed a pair of NCAA crowns but also secured three Hockey East postseason titles along with two conference regular season championships, made four consecutive NCAA tournament appearances and won four straight Beanpots.
Lindoff, who celebrated his thirty-first birthday yesterday, arrives from the Danville Dashers of the Federal Hockey League. The 5' 11", 180-pound product of Red Deer, Alberta, has gone 2-1-0 with a 3.00 goals against average, a .907 save percentage and one shutout in three games with the Dashers this season.
Lindoff played in the Southern Professional Hockey League each of the last two seasons- first for the Louisiana IceGators in 2012-13 and then for the Bloomington Thunder last year. Lindoff went 1-3-0 while recording a 3.85 goals against average and a .879 save percentage in six games with Bloomington. He broke into the professional ranks with Danville in 2011-12 after playing senior hockey in his home province for the Innisfail Eagles of the Chinook Hockey League. Lindoff's junior career saw him tend goal for the Red Deer Vipers of the Heritage Junior Hockey League and the Dryden Ice Dogs of the Superior International Junior Hockey League.
