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Brodeur Named Reebok/AHL Player Of The Week

Published on November 13, 2009 under ECHL (ECHL) News Release


SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The American Hockey League announced that former ECHL goaltender Mike Brodeur has been named the Reebok AHL Player of the Week for the period ending Nov. 8 after going 2-1-0 with a shutout, a goals-against average of 0.67 and a save percentage of.979 in three games for Binghamton.

The Elmira Jackals are the ECHL affiliate of Ottawa of the NHL and Binghamton of the American Hockey League.

Selected by Chicago in the seventh round (211th overall) in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, the 26 year old is 48-38-9 with seven shutouts, a goals-against average of 2.69 and a save percentage of.922 in 100 regular season ECHL games with Augusta, Greenville, Pensacola and Toledo.

He was 18-13-4 with a 2.45 goals-against average and a.921 save percentage in 38 games for Rochester in the AHL in 2008-09 and was named the Reebok/AHL Player of the Week on Dec. 15, 2008 and was one of eight former ECHL players selected to play in the 2009 AHL All-Star Game.

During the 2007-08 season Brodeur had a 10-day stretch where he played three games in the ECHL with Pensacola in three different cities, was with Rockford in the AHL for one game and suited up for one game with the Chicago Blackhawks as the backup to Patrick Lalime, who played in the ECHL as a rookie in 1994-95.

Other former ECHL players nominated for the award were Keith Aucoin, Matt Climie, Devan Dubnyk, Joe Fallon, Mark Letestu and Daren Machesney.

The ECHL has had affiliations with 20 or more teams in the AHL the last nine seasons and in the past eight years there have been more ECHL players called up to the AHL than all other professional leagues combined.

Seven times in the last nine years the winner of the AHL Coach of the Year award has been a former ECHL coach including 2006-08 with Scott Gordon, Mike Haviland and Kevin Dineen. Former ECHL coaches won the award four consecutive years from 2001-04 with Don Granato, Bruce Cassidy, Geoff Ward and Claude Noel. The first former ECHL coach to win the award was Peter Laviolette in 1999.

Nine former ECHL players were named Reebok /AHL Player of the Week in 2008-09 and 10 received the honor in 2007-08.

The ECHL has been represented on the last 20 AHL champions including 2009 when 15 of the 26 players who played for Hershey played in the Premier 'AA' Hockey League. It is the most former ECHL players on an AHL champion surpassing the 14 players for Chicago in 2008. There have been 41 former ECHL players on the last three AHL winners and 59 former ECHL players on the last five champions. The head coach of the Bears, who won their league-record 10th title, was former ECHL player and coach Bob Woods, who is now an assistant coach with the Washington Capitals of the NHL, and the assistant coach was former ECHL assistant Mark French, who is now the head coach of Hershey.

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