ECHL Utah Grizzlies

Brett Parnham Named ECHL Player of the Week

Published on November 30, 2010 under ECHL (ECHL)
Utah Grizzlies News Release


West Valley City, Utah - The ECHL announced today that Brett Parnham of the Utah Grizzlies has been named the Sher-Wood Hockey ECHL Player of the Week for Nov. 21-27.

The 21-year-old led the ECHL in scoring this past week with six goals and two assists as the Grizzlies went 4-0 through California and ran their season record to 11-4-2-1, which leads the Western Conference.

Parnham becomes the second Utah player (Brad Snetsinger four goals, two assists: November 8-14) in the last three weeks to lead the ECHL in scoring while also being named player of the week. He opened the week with two goals in a 3-1 win on Wednesday against Bakersfield and tallied a goal and an assist in a 3-2 win on Friday against Stockton. He ended the week with three goals and an assist in the Grizzlies 7-3 win against Ontario on Sunday. The second-year pro was returning to action in his first full week after missing a month of play on injured reserve.

On Behalf of Brett Parnham, a case of pucks will be donated to a Utah youth hockey organization by Sher-Wood Hockey, the exclusive puck supplier of the ECHL. Since beginning its sponsorship of the award in 2000-01, Sher-Wood Hockey has donated more than 23,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities.

Utah goaltender J.P. Lamoureux finished as a runner-up for the league's Goaltender of the Week as he started all four games for Utah. He went 4-0 with a 2.00 goals-against-average and a .937 save percentage.

The Grizzlies host Las Vegas Thursday at 7:05 p.m. and Ontario Friday and Saturday at 7:05 p.m. This weekend, fans can take advantage of 50-cent Hot Dogs and Corn Dogs, $1 Tacos and $2 Beers along with many other meal deals on the Maverik Center concourse.




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