Alaska's Minard Named In Glas Co ECHL Player of the Week

March 1, 2005 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release

PRINCETON, N.J. - Alaska forward Chris Minard is the In Glas Co ECHL Player of the Week for February 21-27. Minard won the award for January 3-9 and joins Damian Surma of Florida (Oct. 25-31 and Dec. 20-26) as the only two-time winners in 2004-05.

Chosen to represent Alaska in the 2005 ECHL All-Star Game, the 6-1 and 200-pound Minard scored five goals, had three assists and was +4 as Alaska went 3-0-1 with victories at Toledo and Peoria and a pair of shootouts at home against Fresno.

After scoring two goals in a 6-2 victory at Toledo on February 23, the Owen Sound, Ontario native scored his second hat trick of the season, including a shorthand goal and the game winner, while also posting an assist in a 6-4 win at Peoria on February 24. Minard had two assists in a 4-3 shootout win on February 27, giving him his fifth multiple-assist game to go with eight multiple-goal games and 15 multiple-point games.

The 24-year old Minard leads the ECHL with 37 goals and is fifth in scoring with 59 points (37g-22a) in 52 games. He ranks second on the Aces behind locked-out NHL All-Star Scott Gomez, who leads the ECHL with 57 assists and 66 points. On behalf of Chris Minard, a case of pucks will be donated to an Anchorage area youth hockey organization by In Glas Co, the exclusive puck supplier for the ECHL. In Glas Co has donated over 10,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities since it began sponsoring the award in 2000-01.

Runners Up: Wes Mason, Louisiana (4 gp, 4g, 2a, 6 pts) Anthony Battaglia, Mississippi (4 gp, 4g, 3a, 7 pts) and Ed Courtenay, South Carolina (5 gp, 3g, 6a, 9 pts).

Also Nominated: Derek Edwardson (Atlantic City), Jamie Johnson (Augusta), Dusty Jamieson (Charlotte), David Lundbohm (Florida), Jason Weaver (Fresno), Simon Ferguson (Greenville), Jeff Campbell (Gwinnett), Tyler Beechey (Pensacola), Colin Hemingway (Peoria), Eric Fortier (Reading), Guillaume Fournier (San Diego), Rick Judson (Toledo), Nick Deschenes (Trenton), Jason Hegberg (Victoria), and Ed McGrane (Wheeling).

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