
All-Star Game Presented By Guardian Wear Players Will Wear Reebok EDGE Jerseys
January 14, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL unveiled the jerseys for the ECHL All-Star Game
and All-Star Skills Competition presented by Guardian Wearâ¢.
The Reading Royals, the City of Reading and the Sovereign Center will host
the 17th Annual ECHL All-Star Game on Jan. 21, 2009 and the 12th Annual
All-Star Skills Competition on Jan. 20, 2009.
Both teams will wear Reebok EDGE jerseys
designed and created by Reebok, the official
equipment supplier of the ECHL.
The home jersey for the American Conference is black with red and grey
trim on the sleeves and neck. The visiting National Conference jersey has a
white body with black shoulders. The shoulders are trimmed in red and grey
and the neck is trimmed in red. Both jerseys have the primary All-Star logo
as the crest and feature the secondary All-Star logo on each shoulder.
The All-Star Skills Competition jerseys will be the same design; however,
the crest will be the player's team logo instead of the All-Star logo.
The jerseys will be available for purchase at the Reading Royals Fan-Attic
Team Store in the Sovereign Center and online at RoyalsHockey.com.
There have been four coaches and 46 players from the All-Star Game who
have advanced to the National Hockey League. Twenty-nine players from the
All-Star Game have gone on to play in the NHL since 2002 when the lineups
began having players who coaches felt were prospects to move up to a higher
level.
The Stanley Cup and the Patrick J. Kelly Cup will both be on display
throughout the event, marking the ninth time in the last 10 years that the
NHL championship trophy and the ECHL championship trophy have been
displayed together at the All-Star Game.
American
Conference roster can be viewed as PDF by clicking here
National
Conference roster can be viewed as PDF by clicking here
Premier âAA' Hockey League Fast Facts
- The ECHL celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2007-08 and is the
third-longest tenured professional hockey league behind only the National
Hockey League and the American Hockey League.
- ECHL began in 1988-89 with five teams in four states and has grown to be
a coast-to-coast league with 21 teams in 16 states and British Columbia in
2008-09.
- The Reading Royals, the City of Reading and the Sovereign Center will
host the 17th
Annual ECHL All-Star Game on Jan. 21, 2009 and the 12th Annual All-Star
Skills Competition on Jan. 20, 2009.
- The league officially changed its name from East Coast Hockey League to
ECHL on May
19, 2003.
- Affiliations with 24 of the 30 teams in the National Hockey League
marking 12th consecutive season that the league has had affiliations with
at least 20 teams in the NHL.
- 387 former ECHL
players have played in NHL.
- 131 have played their first NHL game in the last four seasons.
- 32 former ECHL players have made their NHL debut this season: former
Wheeling Nailers and ECHL All-Star defenseman Paul
Bissonnette (Pittsburgh on Oct. 4), former Bakersfield Condors center
Alexandre
Bolduc (Vancouver on Nov. 27), former Florida Everblades defenseman Brett
Carson (Carolina on Dec. 7), former South Carolina Stingrays defenseman
Sean
Collins (Washington on Dec. 6), former Las Vegas Wranglers and Wheeling
Nailers goaltender John
Curry (Pittsburgh on Nov. 26), former Greenville Grrrowl goaltender
Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers (Edmonton on Oct. 17), former Johnstown Chiefs
center Andre
Deveaux (Toronto on Nov. 27), former Dayton Bombers center Philippe
Dupuis (Colorado on Dec. 12), former Gwinnett Gladiators right wing Pat
Dwyer former Columbus Cottonmouths and Tallahassee Tiger Sharks left
wing Mitch
Fritz (New York Islanders on Oct. 30), former South Carolina Stingrays
right wing Andrew
Gordon (Washington on Dec. 23), former Charlotte Checkers center Dwight
Helminen (Carolina on Oct. 28), former Trenton Devils right wing Pierre-Luc
Letourneau-Leblond (New Jersey on Oct. 22), former Gwinnett Gladiators
defenseman Scott
Lehman (Atlanta on Dec. 18), former Charlotte Checkers defenseman Steve
MacIntyre (Edmonton on Oct. 15), former Florida Everblades left wing Kenndal
McArdle (Florida on Dec. 2), former Phoenix RoadRunners and Wheeling
Nailers center Cam
Paddock (St. Louis on Nov. 14), former Las Vegas Wranglers defenseman
Adam
Pardy (Calgary on Oct. 9), former Idaho Steelheads left wing Warren
Peters (Calgary on Dec. 7), former Charlotte Checkers defenseman Corey
Potter (New York Rangers on Dec. 7), former Augusta Lynx defenseman Kevin
Quick (Tampa Bay on Jan. 13), former Charlotte Checkers, Columbia
Inferno and Elmira Jackals defenseman Bryan
Rodney (Carolina on Dec. 11), former Gwinnett Gladiators center Jared
Ross (Philadelphia on Oct. 11), former Alaska Aces goaltender Marek
Schwarz (St. Louis on Oct. 25), former Greenville Grrrowl and Stockton
Thunder center Tim
Sestito (Edmonton on Nov. 26), former Dayton Bombers and Las Vegas
Wranglers defenseman Tyler
Sloan (Washington on Oct. 21), former Utah Grizzlies and ECHL All-Star
center Trevor
Smith (New York Islanders on Dec. 31), former Johnstown Chiefs and
Mississippi Sea Wolves forward Radek
Smolenak (Tampa Bay on Dec. 2), former Augusta Lynx defenseman Brett
Skinner (New York Islanders on Oct. 27), former Las Vegas Wranglers and
ECHL All-Star defenseman Tyson
Strachan (St. Louis on Dec. 18), former Wheeling Nailers right wing Tim
Wallace (Pittsburgh on Dec. 10) and former Idaho Steelheads center Tom
Wandell (Dallas on Dec. 10).
- There were 72
former ECHL players on NHL opening-day rosters.
- Twenty-six former ECHL players made their NHL debut in 2007-08 including
six who played in both the ECHL and the NHL: Chris
Beckford-Tseu (Alaska and St. Louis), Adam
Berti (Pensacola and Chicago), Joe
Jensen (Wheeling and Carolina), Dan
LaCosta (Elmira and Columbus), Jonathan
Quick (Reading and Los Angeles) and Danny
Taylor (Reading and Los Angeles).
- Record 47 former ECHL players played their first NHL game in 2005-06.
- ECHL is represented for the eighth consecutive year on the National
Hockey League championship team in 2008 by
Aaron Downey of the Detroit Red Wings.
- Former ECHL coaches working as head coaches in the NHL are Bruce
Boudreau of the Washington Capitals and Scott
Gordon of the New York Islanders. Boudreau, who coached Mississippi for
three seasons winning the Kelly Cup championship in 1999, was named
NHL Coach of the Year in 2007-08 becoming the first former ECHL coach
to receive the award. Peter Laviolette, who began his coaching career with
the Wheeling Nailers, led Carolina Hurricanes to the Stanley Cup in
2006.
- There are 18 assistant coaches in the NHL who were players or coaches in
the ECHL.
- There are 18 former ECHL officials scheduled to work as part of the NHL
officiating team in 2008-09 with referees David
Banfield, Chris
Ciamaga, Ghislain
Hebert, Marc Joannette, Mike Leggo, Wes McCauley, Dean Morton, Dan
O'Rourke, Brian Pochmara, Kevin Pollock, Kyle Rehman, Chris Rooney, Justin
St. Pierre and Ian Walsh and linesmen Steve Barton, Brian Mach, Tim
Nowak and Jay Sharrers. Barton, Joannette, Leggo, McCauley, Nowak, Pollock,
Rooney and Sharrers all worked the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
- ECHL has affiliations with 23 of the 29 teams in the American Hockey
League and for the past 19 years there has been an ECHL player on the
Calder Cup Champion.
- In the last six seasons the ECHL has had more call-ups to the AHL than
all other professional leagues combined with over 2,000 call-ups involving
more than 1,000 players since 2002-03.
- Further information on the ECHL is available from its website at ECHL.com.
ECHL Stories from January 14, 2009
- Steelheads Win in a Shootout, 4-3 - Idaho Steelheads
- Grizzlies Collect Another Point In Shootout Loss - Utah Grizzlies
- Ontario Slips Past RoadRunners 2-1 - Phoenix RoadRunners
- Chiefs Downed by Devils - Johnstown Chiefs
- Bombers Split Pair In Elmira, Falling 6-3 Wednesday Night - Dayton Bombers
- Nailers Lose At Cyclones 10-4 - Wheeling Nailers
- Cyclones Explode For Six Second Period Goals In 10-4 Win - Cincinnati Cyclones
- Jackals Win 6-3 - Elmira Jackals
- Snetsinger Nets Four Points As Devils Bash Chiefs, 6-1 - Trenton Devils
- Zatkoff and Martens Return to Reign - Ontario Reign
- Gladiators Fall to Everblades, 4-2 - Atlanta Gladiators
- Blades Make it Six Striaght with 4-2 Win - Florida Everblades
- Blades' Bouchard AHL Bound Again - Florida Everblades
- ECHL Transactions - January 14 - ECHL
- Urquhart Named In Glas Co ECHL Player of the Week - Stockton Thunder
- Stanley Cup Visits Four Pennsylvania Ice Rinks Monday - ECHL
- All-Star Game Presented By Guardian Wear Players Will Wear Reebok EDGE Jerseys - ECHL
- Southern Assigned from AHL Manitoba - Atlanta Gladiators
- Derlago Returns from AHL - Bakersfield Condors
- Stockton's Urquhart Named In Glas Co ECHL Player Of The Week - ECHL
- Bakersfield Condors vs. Las Vegas Wranglers - Bakersfield Condors
- Johnson Returns to Rays - South Carolina Stingrays
- Royals Announce âHockey Week In Reading' Schedule of Events - Reading Royals
- Ontario Reign Booster Club Informational Meeting Saturday - Ontario Reign
- 5th Annual Tip-A-Checker Set For January 25 - Charlotte Checkers
- Quick Becomes 387th ECHL Player To Play In NHL - ECHL
- ECHL Today - ECHL
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