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Manitoba Moose acquire Bobby MacIntyre prior to trade deadline

True North Sports & Entertainment

WINNIPEG – The Manitoba Moose made a move before Monday’s AHL trade deadline.

The Moose acquired forward Bobby MacIntyre from the Cleveland Monsters in exchange for forward Kale Kessy.

MacIntyre, 21, spent most of his first professional season in the ECHL with the Jacksonville Icemen. He has 16 goals and 15 assists in 38 games with the Icemen this season. He also appeared in five AHL games with Cleveland where he failed to record a point. Before turning pro MacIntyre played five seasons in the OHL where he racked up 183 points in 308 games with the Mississauga Steelheads and Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds.

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Kessy, 25, played in just one game with the Moose this season but dressed for 16 games a year ago where he registered one assist. In 52 games with the ECHL’s Tulsa Oilers, Kessy has 13 goals and 18 assists this season. Kessy was a fourth round draft pick of the Phoenix Coyotes in 2011.

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The division leading Moose start a seven game road trip on Wednesday against the Milwaukee Admirals.

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