Barber Selected to All-Rookie Team

March 31, 2004 - ECHL (ECHL)
San Diego Gulls News Release


SAN DIEGO — San Diego Gulls rookie forward Greg Barber has been named to the All-Rookie Team, the ECHL announced Wednesday.

Barber is tied among all ECHL first-year players with 45 assists and 74 points. He's tied for third among league rookies with 29 goals. His 74 points are tied for 11th overall in the ECHL. Barber also cashed in a career-high and rookie-leading 13-game point streak that spanned from mid-January to early February.

The 6-foot-2-inch, 205-pounder from Kelowna, British Columbia is third on the Gulls in points, trailing only Mark Pederson and Sylvain Deschatelets, who have 80 points apiece. Barber was San Diego's lone representative at the 2004 Par-A-Dice ECHL All-Star Game, which was held in Peoria, Ill earlier in January.

Barber, 23, is in his first professional season after spending the last four years at the University of Denver. He was a seventh round selection of the Boston Bruins in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft.

"Greg is a complete player, who works hard, skates hard and hits hard," Gulls head coach and general manager Steve Martinson said. "He's got the whole package and leads by example. I'm really happy the league gave him this recognition. He certainly deserves it."

The other players named to the All-Rookie team were Wheeling's Nick Boucher, Columbia's Derek Eastman, Gwinnett's Kevin Doell and Atlantic City's Brian Fahey and Jon Cullen. The selections were determined in a vote of ECHL coaches, who were each asked to select a goaltender, two defensemen and three forwards.



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