FORWARD Ben Lowe has joined Excel Hull Stingrays on a permanent basis for the reminder of the season.

The 19-year-old has combined playing for Kingston Jets with practising with Stingrays this season and has made six appearances for Sylvain Cloutier's side, his latest coming in Sunday's 5-3 win over Newcastle Vipers.

Cloutier said: "I am really pleased to have Ben in the line-up for the rest of the season.

"He has been training with us all season and you can see the improvement he has made.

"He wants to get better and we want to help make him a better player.

"It's nice to have another local talent in the line-up – you always want to help and make the young local guys into better hockey players."