The AHL’s Cleveland Monsters, top affiliate of the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets, announced Wednesday that the Blue Jackets assigned forward Kole Sherwood to the Monsters. In ten appearances for Cleveland this season, Sherwood posted 3-1-4 with 14 penalty minutes and a +2 rating and added two penalty minutes in three appearances for the Blue Jackets.

A 6’1”, 199 lb. right-shooting native of New Albany, OH, Sherwood, 22, appeared in five games for Columbus spanning this season and last season and is the first Columbus-area native to appear in a regular-season game for the Blue Jackets. Sherwood additionally tallied 19-10-29 with 87 penalty minutes and a +3 rating in 68 career AHL appearances for Cleveland spanning parts of three seasons from 2016-19.

Prior to his professional career, Sherwood notched 75-104-179 with 169 penalty minutes and a +33 rating in 180 career OHL appearances for the London Knights, Flint Firebirds and Kitchener Rangers spanning three seasons from 2015-18 and heled London claim the 2016 OHL Championship. Sherwood also appeared in three games for the USHL’s Youngstown Phantoms in 2014-15, supplying 1-1-2 with a +2 rating.