The Quad City Mallards have named Tom Carroll the team’s new equipment manager, the Mallards announced today.

Carroll has been a fixture in the Mallards organization for most of the last two decades, having first joined the team in 1997 as a stick boy. Carroll has spent the last five years as the Mallards’ assistant equipment manager.

Carroll also enjoyed a two-year stint in the American Hockey League as the Quad City Flames’ visiting locker room attendant from 2007 to 2009.

Carroll, who earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Saint Ambrose University, is a native of East Moline.

The Mallards will open their twenty-first season- and their fourth in the ECHL- on Friday, October 13 against the Toledo Walleye at the iWireless Center. Mallards 2017-18 season tickets are now available. Season ticket holders enjoy significant savings of the walk-up ticket price and receive a host of exclusive benefits. For more season ticket information, fans can contact the Mallards at 309-277-1364 or info@myqcmallards.net.