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Alex Auld Named MeiGray Group ECHL Alumnus of the Month

February 4, 2005 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release


PRINCETON, N.J. - Former Columbia Inferno and current Manitoba Moose goaltender Alex Auld is the MeiGray Group ECHL Alumnus of the Month for January.

Auld played in 13 games for the Moose in January, posting a 9-1-2 record with a goals-against average of 1.75 and a save percentage of .934, helping Manitoba move into second place in the American Hockey League's North Division. In 29 games this season, Auld is 18-6-3 for Manitoba, and was selected to represent Canada in the Spengler Cup Tournament in Davos, Switzerland, where he appeared in four games.

In his first professional season in 2001-02 with Columbia of the ECHL, the 6-0 and 200-pound Auld went 3-1-2 for the Inferno in six regular season games, posting a goals-against average of 1.92 and a save percentage of .927. Auld also appeared in 21 games with Manitoba of the AHL that season, posting an 11-9-0 record, a 3.53 goals-against average and a .881 save percentage. On January 23, 2002, Auld made his National Hockey League debut for the Vancouver Canucks, stopping 21-of-23 shots in a 4-2 win against the Dallas Stars.

Selected in the second round (40th overall) by the Florida Panthers in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, Auld attended the Panthers training camp twice before his rights were traded to Vancouver in 2001. The 24-year-old Auld appeared in 37 games with Manitoba in 2002-03, recording a 15-19-3 record while recording three shutouts. Auld also set the Manitoba record for longest scoreless streak by a goaltender when he did not allow a goal in 158:28 from December 21, 2002-January 5, 2003. In seven games with Vancouver, Auld was 3-3-0 with a 2.64 goals-against average and a .908 save percentage.

Born in Cold Lake, Alberta, Auld appeared in 40 games with Manitoba in 2003-04, going 18-16-4 with a 2.55 goals-against average and a .915 save percentage, and in six games with Vancouver, he was 2-2-2 with a 2.21 goals-against average and a .921 save percentage.

The ECHL has affiliations with 23 of the 28 teams in the AHL in 2004-05 and is represented in the American Hockey League coaching ranks with five head coaches and 10 assistant coaches, working behind the bench of 15 of the teams. In 2003-04, there were more than 90 players on AHL contracts in the ECHL and more than 220 players played in both the ECHL and the AHL. The ECHL had 425 call-ups, involving 234 players, to the AHL during the 2003-04 regular season.

The leading distributor of game-worn hockey jerseys and "The Official Game-Worn Jersey Source of the ECHL," The MeiGray Group sold over 800 game-worn ECHL jerseys in 2003-04 and has sold more than 1,700 since it began selling game-worn ECHL jerseys in 2002-03. The MeiGray Group, which has sold more than 19,000 game-worn jerseys since its inception in 1997, is partners with the National Hockey League in the NHL-MGG Game-Worn Jersey Authentication Program and also has working agreements with the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers and the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks.

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