ECHL Officials to Work CCM/USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game
Published on September 10, 2012 under ECHL (ECHL) News Release
PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL on Monday announced that four of the League's officials have been selected to work the inaugural CCM/USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game. The event will take place on Saturday, Sept. 29, at First Niagara Center in Buffalo, N.Y.
The referees for the game are Tom Chmielewski and Chris Pitoscia while the linesman are Alex Stagnone and Brian Oliver.
Chmielewski worked the Conference Finals of the Kelly Cup Playoffs last season, and enters his second season in the ECHL in 2012-13.
The 2012-13 season is Pitoscia's first full season in the ECHL. A native of Edison, N.J., he worked games in the USHL, SPHL and ECHL last season, and was assigned to the Finals in both leagues.
Stagnone has worked in the ECHL for the last two seasons. He worked the 2012 Kelly Cup Finals, and is scheduled to work games in both the ECHL and the American Hockey League in 2012-13.
Oliver enters his first full season with the ECHL this season after working a partial schedule in the league last season in addition to assignments in the AHL and USHL.
"The ECHL is very pleased for all four of these officials as each of them are deserving of the honor," said ECHL Vice President of Hockey Operations Joe Ernst. "These four officials should be honored that USA Hockey has selected them to work this inaugural game. We wish all four success in this game and thank USA Hockey and the USDOP for all the time and effort they put into developing officials for the professional level."
The CCM/USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game will boast 40 of the top American prospects eligible for the 2013 National Hockey League Entry Draft. Represented are 31 players from the United States Hockey League, the top junior league in America, including 22 from USA Hockey's National Team Development Program in Ann Arbor, Mich. Additionally, at least 28 of the 40 are future NCAA Division I college players.
There are 25 former ECHL officials scheduled to work as part of the NHL officiating team in 2012-13 with referees Francis Charron, Ghislain Hebert, Jean Hebert, Marc Joannette, Trent Knorr, Mike Leggo, Dave Lewis, T.J. Luxmore, Wes McCauley, Jon McIsaac, Dean Morton, Dan O'Rourke, Brian Pochmara, Kevin Pollock, Kyle Rehman, Chris Rooney, Graham Skilliter, Justin St. Pierre and Ian Walsh, and linesmen Steve Barton, Matt MacPherson, Brian Mach, Tim Nowak, Bryan Pancich and Jay Sharrers.
Barton, McCauley, Nowak, O'Rourke, Pochmara, Pollock, Rooney, Sharrers and Walsh all worked in the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Barton, McCauley, O'Rourke, Pollock, Rooney and Sharrers worked the Conference Finals and O'Rourke and Rooney worked the Stanley Cup Final. It was the sixth year in a row that Barton, McCauley, Nowak, Pollock and Sharrers have worked the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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