{"id":1047093,"date":"2026-09-06T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1047093\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:06:13","slug":"morning-notes-davidson-sucese-mcguire-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1047093\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Notes: Davidson, Sucese, McGuire \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/author\/ethan-hetu\" title=\"Posts by Ethan Hetu\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Hetu<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at September 6, 2026 8:30 am  <\/p>\n<p>Veteran defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/davidbr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Brandon Davidson<\/strong><\/a>, who played in 180 NHL games between 2014 and 2021, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eisbaeren.de\/news\/detail\/brandon-davidson-wird-ein-eisbaer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed a one-year contract<\/a> with the DEL\u2019s Eisb\u00e4ren Berlin last week. The signing marks the 35-year-old blueliner\u2019s first contract in the top division of professional hockey in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>A 6\u20192\u2033 left-shot defenseman, Davidson has played three seasons overseas in Europe since he last appeared in North America during the 2022-23 campaign. After beginning his European career in the SHL, Davidson spent the last two years in the Czech Extraliga with HC Kometa Brno. He won the Czech title in 2024-25 with the club, but missed all of 2025-26 with a knee injury. Now he\u2019ll join a Berlin team that have won DEL titles in five of the last six seasons, and have won in each of the last three years. Davidson has not appeared in league play just yet but made his club debut for Berlin on Friday, skating 20:40 in a 6-2 loss to Gen\u00e8ve-Servette HC in Champions Hockey League play.<\/p>\n<p>Other notes from around the hockey world:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"longlis\">\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockeydb.com\/ihdb\/stats\/pdisplay.php?pid=164614\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nate Sucese<\/a><\/strong>, a former Penn State University star and AHL middle-six forward, signed a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hc-dragons.com\/news\/nejt-sukeze-vozvrashhaetsya-v-shanhaj-dregons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one-year KHL contract extension<\/a> with the Shanghai Dragons last week. The 30-year-old winger originally joined Shanghai last summer, but struggled to translate his scoring abilities from the AHL level to the KHL, posting just 16 points in 64 games. Over his last two years in the AHL, Sucese scored 31 goals and 65 points in 128 games. A former point-per-game scorer in college hockey, Sucese will look to help the Dragons reach the KHL playoffs for just the second time in franchise history.<\/li>\n<li>24-year-old center <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockeydb.com\/ihdb\/stats\/pdisplay.php?pid=224604\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ryan McGuire<\/a><\/strong> has signed a one-year ECHL contract to return to the Maine Mariners, per a team announcement. The former Colgate University and Northwestern University forward played his first full season of pro hockey in 2025-26, scoring nine points in 50 ECHL games, while receiving call-ups to play in two AHL games. The son of Pierre McGuire, a former NHL head coach, executive, and longtime television analyst, McGuire will hope the continuity of re-signing in Maine will help him make a stronger mark in year two of his professional career.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ethan Hetu | at September 6, 2026 8:30 am Veteran defenseman Brandon Davidson, who played in 180&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1047094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[419149,27319,8666,21619,419150,293,419151,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1047093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-brandon-davidson","tag-del","tag-echl","tag-khl","tag-nate-sucese","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-mcguire","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117224720897519544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}