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Published on April 11, 2003 under ECHL (ECHL) News Release


2003 Kelly Cup Playoffs Southeast Division Finals (Best-of-Five)

No. 3 Pee Dee Pride (40-26-6) at No. 1 Columbia Inferno (47-23-2) 7:05 ET / 6:05 CT

* Pee Dee beat Columbia, three games to two, in the 2002 Southeast Division Semifinals.

* Columbia has qualified for the postseason in each of its first two seasons.

* Pride upset No. 2 Seed South Carolina, three games to one, in the Southeast Division Semifinals.

* Inferno swept defending Kelly Cup Champion Greenville in three games in the Southeast Division Semifinals.

* Kyle Kidney has scored two game-winning goals for Pee Dee and assisted on the third.

* Columbia's Rejean Stringer leads the Kelly Cup Playoffs with six assists in three games.

* Pride's Ron Vogel was 1-2-0 with a 2.62 GAA and a .881 save percentage against Columbia in the regular season.

* Inferno leads the Kelly Cup Playoffs on the power play with 50 percent (10-for-20).

* Columbia was 6-2-1 against Pee-Dee in 2002-03, and is 10-4-3 all-time in the regular season.

* Matt Reid (28g-44a) and Greg Schmidt (20g-52a) tied for the Pee Dee regular season scoring lead with 72 points.

* Columbia's Josh Blackburn was 3-1-1 with a 1.75 GAA and a .943 save percentage in five regular season games against Pee-Dee.

* Pride's road penalty kill ranked second in the ECHL regular season with 84.5 percent (169-for-200).

2003 Kelly Cup Playoffs Northeast Division Finals (Best-of-Five)

No. 2 Greensboro (42-21-9) at No. 1 Atlantic City (41-19-12) 7:35 ET / 6:35 CT

* Atlantic City was 4-2-0 against Greensboro in 2002-03 and is 8-2-0 all-time in the regular season.

* Greensboro is making its' first-ever Kelly Cup Playoffs appearance.

* Bullies' Paul Spadafora has two game-winning goals and six points (3g-3a) in three postseason games.

* Generals' Jay Murphy is tied for the Kelly Cup Playoffs with eight points (3g-5a) in four games.

* Bullies' Matthew Yeats is 3-0 with a shutout, a 2.00 GAA and a .914 save percentage in three postseason games.

* Greensboro's Daniel Berthiaume is 3-1 with a 2.82 GAA and a .933 save percentage in four postseason games and has appeared in 36 postseason games, the fourth most by a goaltender in ECHL history.

* Atlantic City ranks third in the Kelly Cup Playoffs on the penalty kill with 93.33 percent (14-for-15).

* Generals ranked second in the ECHL on the penalty kill during the regular season with 85.20 percent (357-for-419).

* Bullies' Jimmy Henkel had 10 points (6g-4a) in five games against Greensboro in the regular season.

* Greensboro is 10-1 in its last 11 games, including 3-1 in the Kelly Cup Playoffs.

* Greensboro's postseason power play ranks seventh at 19.0 percent (4-for-21) while Atlantic City ranks eighth at 18.2 percent (4-for-22).

* Bullies led the ECHL in regular season scoring, averaging 3.72 goals per game.

2003 Kelly Cup Playoffs Northwest Division Finals (Best-of-Five)

No. 3 Cincinnati Cyclones (36-29-7) at No. 1 Toledo Storm (47-15-10) 7:30 ET / 6:30 CT

* First time that Cincinnati and Toledo have met in the postseason.

* Toledo was 7-2-1 against Cincinnati in 2002-03 and is 11-7-2 all-time in the regular season.

* Cincinnati upset No. 2 Seed Peoria, three games to one, and Toledo swept Lexington in three games in the Northwest Division Semifinals.

* Cincinnati's upset of Peoria in the Northwest Division Semifinals is the ninth biggest playoff upset in ECHL history in terms of regular-season points' differential - 24 points (Cincinnati - 89 points and Peoria - 104 points).

* Toledo leads the Kelly Cup Playoffs in goals allowed, averaging 0.67 per game.

* Cyclones' Nick Bootland leads the Kelly Cup Playoffs with four goals and is tied for eighth in scoring with six points.

* Toledo ranks second in the Kelly Cup Playoffs in scoring, averaging 5.67 goals per game.

* Cincinnati's Greg Hewitt is 3-1 with a 1.75 goals against average in the Kelly Cup Playoffs.

* Storm's Erik Anderson is tied for fifth in Kelly Cup Playoffs scoring with seven points (3g-4a).

* Toledo ranked third in the ECHL on the penalty kill in the regular season with 84.0 percent (68-for-425).

* Cincinnati ranked second in the ECHL on the power play in the regular season with 22.4 percent (87-for-389).

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