Aces Add Goalie for Road Trip
February 3, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL)
Alaska Aces News Release
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Alaska Aces have been assigned goaltender Kevin Regan by the Boston Bruins. He will meet the team in Stockton on the eve of a four-game road trip.
Regan, a ninth-round NHL Draft pick of Boston in 2003 (#277 overall), won his last two starts for the Providence Bruins over Super Bowl weekend, stopping 68 of 70 shots in the process. His AHL numbers this season included an 8-5-1 record, 3.00 GAA, and .893 save percentage. The 24-year-old Regan also has played two games for Gwinnett (ECHL), going 1-1 with a 2.50 GAA and a .904 save percentage.
Regan (pronounced REE-gan) began his pro career last April after a four-year run at the University of New Hampshire, shutting out Manchester with 23 saves in his one and only start. His pro debut came at the end of a year in which he had earned first-team NCAA All-American and first-team Hockey East honors and been named Hockey East Player of the Year (unanimously) and a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award.
The 6-2, 190-pound Regan also became the first UNH goalie ever to win 20 games in back-to-back years, having led the nation with a school-record .935 save pct. and finishing fifth with a 2.06 GAA as a junior in 2007. He completed his collegiate career with nine shutouts and as the all-time leader at UNH in wins, total saves, and save percentage. Prior to enrolling at UNH, Regan was drafted by Boston in the ninth round (#277 overall) in 2003 and played the next season at Waterloo in the USHL, going 28-19-1 (2.37, .915).
Regan offers workhouse Jean-Philippe Lamoureux (an ECHL-best 22 wins and five shutouts, including a 2-0 whitewash in Alaska's 2-0 win over Ontario Saturday) a potential breather as the Aces open a four-games-in-five-nights stretch tomorrow night in Stockton at 6:00 p.m. ADT. Alaska rallied from a 4-1 deficit late in the third period to earn a point in a 5-4 shootout loss to the Thunder January 24.
The Aces visit Bakersfield Friday at 6:00 p.m. and Ontario Saturday at 6:00 p.m. before facing a rematch in Stockton Sunday, February 8, at 3:00 p.m. All four games will be broadcast live on KFQD AM 750, with the Peanut Farm Pre-Game Show getting underway 15 minutes prior to the opening face-off.
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