Lineups Announced For Skills Competition Presented By Guardian Wear
January 19, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL All-Stars will take the ice at the Sovereign
Center in Reading, Pa. on Tuesday at 7 p.m. for the 12th Annual ECHL
All-Star Skills Competition presented by Guardian Wear.
The Reading Royals, the City of Reading and the Sovereign Center will host
the 17th Annual ECHL All-Star Game on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Both events will be broadcast live online free of charge on
ECHLALLSTARTV on B2CableTV.com. The video broadcast will
require a high-speed internet connection and a current version of Microsoft
Windows Media Player.
Competing in the Sherwood Hockey Puck Control Relay will be Travis
Morin of South Carolina, Barret
Ehgoetz of Cincinnati and Jarret
Lukin of Dayton and Matt
Shasby of Alaska, Kenny
MacAulay of Stockton and Matt
Pope of Bakersfield.
In the one-on-one Puck Control Relay sponsored by Sherwood Hockey,
the American Conference will be represented by Johann
Kroll of South Carolina and the National Conference will be represented
by Ryan
Huddy of Stockton.
The CCM U+ Fastest Skater competition will feature Aaron
Brocklehurst of Florida, Josh
Aspenlind of Elmira and Aaron
Clarke of Wheeling against Dan
Gendur of Victoria, Matt
Fornataro of Phoenix and Mark
Bomersback of Idaho.
In the Reebok Rapid Fire competition, the American Conference will
have Ryan
Cruthers of Mississippi and Jordan
Fox of Gwinnett against Jean-Philippe
Lamoureux of Alaska; Justin
Taylor of Las Vegas and Matt
Stephenson of Idaho against Kris
Mayotte of Johnstown; Ryan
Gunderson of Trenton and Bryan
Ewing of Wheeling against John
Murray of Ontario; Tom
May of Las Vegas and Matt
Pope of Bakersfield against Michal
Neuvirth of South Carolina; Ryan
Del Monte of Johnstown and Tyler
Doig of Reading against Joe
Fallon of Fresno; and Jeff
May of Las Vegas and Ryan
Huddy of Stockton against David
Leggio of Florida. The individual record for most saves is 10 of 10 by
Ryan
MacDonald of Fresno in 2007 and Dan Ellis of Idaho in 2004 while the
team record is 26 of 30 by the Western Conference in 2004.
In the MeiGray Group Accuracy Shooting Competition, the shooters for
the American Conference will be Ryan
Cruthers of Mississippi, Bryan
Ewing of Wheeling and Kevin
Baker of Florida and the passers will be Travis
Morin of South Carolina and Barret
Ehgoetz of Cincinnati. The shooters for the National Conference will be
Cory
Urquhart of Stockton, Mark
Derlago of Bakersfield and Colin
Hemingway of Alaska and the passers will be Matt
Shasby of Alaska and Kenny
MacAulay of Stockton. The individual record for most targets hit is 4
of 4 by Ash
Goldie of Victoria in 2008 while the team record is 11 of 19 by the
Northern Conference in 2003.
In the Reebok O-Stick Hardest Shot competition, the American
Conference will have Steve
Ward of Reading, Matt
Cohen of Trenton, Matthew
Ford of Charlotte and Elgin
Reid of Wheeling and the National Conference will have Geoff
Walker and Tim
Kraus of Ontario, Dylan
Yeo of Victoria and Michael
Wilson of Phoenix. The record for the hardest shot is 102.2 mph by Jon
Awe of Gwinnett in 2007 while the team record is 96.05 mph by the
Southern Conference in 1999.
In the Guardian Wear� Breakaway Relay for the National Conference,
Jean-Philippe
Lamoureux of Alaska will face Travis
Morin and Johann
Kroll of South Carolina, Jarret
Lukin of Dayton, Josh
Aspenlind of Elmira, Aaron
Brocklehurst of Florida and Barret
Ehgoetz of Cincinnati while John
Murray of Ontario will face Aaron
Clarke and Elgin
Reid of Wheeling, Matt Ford of Charlotte, Matt
Cohen of Trenton, Ryan
Del Monte of Johnstown and Tyler
Doig of Reading and Joe
Fallon of Fresno will face Kevin
Baker of Florida, Jordan
Fox of Gwinnett, Ryan
Gunderson of Trenton, Ryan
Cruthers of Mississippi, Bryan
Ewing of Wheeling and Steve
Ward of Reading. For the American Conference, Kris
Mayotte of Johnstown will face Matt
Shasby of Alaska, Matt
Pope of Bakersfield, Mark
Bomersback of Idaho, Dan
Gendur of Victoria, Kenny
MacAulay of Stockton and Matt
Fornataro of Phoenix while Michal
Neuvirth of South Carolina will face Justin
Taylor of Las Vegas, Geoff
Walker and Tim
Kraus of Ontario, Michael
Wilson of Phoenix, Tom
May of Utah and Dylan
Yeo of Victoria and David
Leggio of Florida will face Colin
Hemingway of Alaska, Ryan
Huddy and Cory
Urquhart of Stockton, Matt
Stephenson of Idaho, Mark
Derlago of Bakersfield and Jeff
May of Las Vegas. The record for most goals scored is eight by two
teams, most recently by the National Conference in 2006, while the record
for most team saves is 16 by the American Conference in 2007 and the record
for most individual saves is 6 of 6 by three players, most recently by Daniel
Manzato of Las Vegas in 2008.
ECHL Skills Competition Results
2008 Skills Competition at Stockton, Calif.
National Conference 19, American Conference 16
2007 Skills Competition at Boise, Idaho
American Conference 20, National Conference 11
2006 Skills Competition at Fresno, Calif.
National Conference 15, American Conference 8
2005 Skills Competition at Reading, Pa.
National Conference 10, American Conference 9
2004 Skills Competition at Peoria, Ill.
Eastern Conference 11, Western Conference 10
2003 Skills Competition at Estero, Fla.
Northern Conference 12, Southern Conference 9
2002 Skills Competition at Trenton, N.J.
Southern Conference 16, Northern Conference 8
2001 Skills Competition at North Little Rock, Ark.
Southern Conference 15, Northern Conference 5
2000 Skills Competition at Greenville, S.C.
Northern Conference 11, Southern Conference 8
1999 Skills Competition at Biloxi, Miss.
Southern Conference 13, Northern Conference 8
1998 Skills Competition at Lafayette, La.
Canada All-Stars 10, USA/World All-Stars 9
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