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April 16, 2003 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release


2003 Kelly Cup Playoffs Southeast Division Finals (Best-of-Five)
Columbia Leads Series 2-0
No. 1 Columbia Inferno at No. 3 Pee Dee Pride 7:00 ET / 6:00 CT

* Barrie Moore had two points (1g-1a) and Robin Carruthers broke a tie midway through the third period in Columbia's 2-1 win in Game 2.

* Corey Hessler scored a power-play goal and tallied an assist in Columbia's 5-2 win in Game 1.

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

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

* Pride's Kyle Kidney is tied for second in the Kelly Cup Playoffs with two game-winning goals.

* Inferno leads the Kelly Cup Playoffs on the power play with 41.9 percent (13-for-31).

* Columbia is 8-2-1 against Pee-Dee in 2002-03 and 13-7-3 all-time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

2003 Kelly Cup Playoffs Northeast Division Finals (Best-of-Five)
Series Tied 1-1
No. 1 Atlantic City at No. 2 Greensboro 7:00 ET / 6:00 CT

* Mark Turner scored two goals, including the game-winner, in Greensboro's 3-2 overtime win in Game 2.

* J.F. Caudron scored at 4:11 in overtime to lead Atlantic City to a 3-2 win in Game 1

* Generals' Jay Murphy is tied for the Kelly Cup Playoffs lead with 10 points (4g-6a) in six games.

* J.F. Caudron is tied for the Kelly Cup Playoffs lead with five goals in five games.

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

* Bullies' Paul Spadafora leads the Kelly Cup Playoffs with two shorthand goals.

* Greensboro is 11-2 in its last 13 games, including 4-2 in the Kelly Cup Playoffs.

* Bullies' Matthew Yeats is 4-1 with a shutout, a 2.16 GAA and a .906 save percentage in the postseason.

* With his next appearance, Greensboro's Daniel Berthiaume will move into a tie for third place with Sean Gauthier on the all-time list for most career ECHL playoff games by a goaltender with 39 games.

* 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's postseason power play ranks seventh at 20.0 percent (5-for-25) 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.

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

2003 Kelly Cup Playoffs Northwest Division Finals (Best-of-Five)
Cincinnati Leads Series 2-1
No. 1 Toledo Storm at No. 3 Cincinnati Cyclones 7:05 ET / 6:05 CT

* Doug Teskey stopped 31 shots in Toledo's 1-0 win in Game 3, earning his Kelly Cup Playoffs leading second shutout.

* Mike Casselman and Nick Bootland scored power-play goals in Cyclones' 4-2 win in Game 2 at Toledo.

* Greg Hewitt stopped 31 of 32 shots in Cincinnati's 2-1 win at Toledo in Game 1.

* Only one team has ever lost the first two games of an ECHL five- game playoff series at home and come back to win the series (Raleigh IceCaps vs. Greensboro Monarchs, 1994 Quarterfinals).

* Toledo ranks second in the Kelly Cup Playoffs in goals allowed, averaging 1.33 goals per game.

* Cyclones' Nick Bootland is tied for the Kelly Cup Playoffs lead with five goals.

* Toledo is tied for fourth in the Kelly Cup Playoffs in scoring, averaging 4.00 goals per game.

* Cincinnati's Greg Hewitt is 5-2 with a 1.59 goals against average in the Kelly Cup Playoffs.

* Toledo's power play ranks 18th in the Kelly Cup Playoffs with 4.2 percent (1-for-24).

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

* Toledo was 7-3-1 against Cincinnati in the regular season and is 11-8-2 all-time.

* 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).

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