Petrolia native Michael Leighton is back in a Chicago Blackhawks uniform.
After the injury to Corey Crawford last week the 35-year-old received his first NHL call up in nearly three years.
Prior to the March 17 recall, Leighton had played 105 NHL games and helped lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a Stanley Cup Finals appearance in 2010.
March has been an eventful month for Leighton, who set an AHL record with his 46th career regular season shutout March 5, moving him past Hockey Hall of Fame member Johnny Bower.
Leighton started his AHL career as a Chicago prospect in 2001 before stops with six other NHL organizations. Along the way, he has picked up 221 regular-season wins, ninth-most in AHL history. He has participated in four AHL All-Star games and won the Aldege "Baz" Bastien Memorial Award as the AHL's outstanding goaltender in 2007-08.
