David Rutherford Named Sher-Wood Hockey ECHL Player of the Week
March 17, 2015 - ECHL (ECHL)
Ontario Reign News Release
ONTARIO, Calif. - The Ontario Reign, four-time ECHL Pacific Division Champions and proud ECHL affiliate of the NHL's 2014 Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings and Winnipeg Jets, are proud to announce that the ECHL has named forward?David Rutherford as the Sher-Wood Hockey ECHL?Player of the Week for Mar. 9-15.
Rutherford scored one goal, added six assists and was a +4 as Ontario went 3-1-0 last week.
The 27-year-old had a goal and an assist in a 4-3 loss at Utah on Monday, picked up a pair of assists in a 6-3 win against Stockton on?Wednesday, tallied an assist in a 2-1 victory over Utah on Saturday and had two assists in a 5-0 win against the Grizzlies on Sunday.
A native of Ladner,?British Columbia, Rutherford has 13 points (3g-10a) in 10 games with the Reign after being acquired in a trade with the Missouri Mavericks on Jan. 22 in exchange for Geoff Walker. In 45 total games this season with Ontario and Missouri, Rutherford has recorded 33 points (9g-24a). Rutherford is the second Reign player to receive Player of the Week honors this season; Walker had earned the distinction while with the Reign for the week of Dec. 29-Jan. 4.
Rutherford has 171 points (75g-96a) in 222 career ECHL games with Ontario, Missouri, Orlando, Florida, Phoenix and Charlotte and he has added 23 points (10g-13a) in 30 career games in the Kelly Cup Playoffs. He captured the Kelly Cup title with the Everblades in 2012.
On behalf of David Rutherford, a case of pucks will be donated to an Ontario youth hockey organization by Sher-Wood?Hockey, the exclusive puck supplier of the ECHL. Since beginning its sponsorship of the award in 2000-01, Sher-Wood Hockey has donated more than 31,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities.
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