
Cincinnati's Desharnais Named CCM Tacks Rookie of the Year
April 6, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
a> is the recipient of the CCM Tacks
Rookie of the Year award for 2007-08.
The award is presented annually to the player selected as the most
proficient in his first year of competition in the ECHL as voted by the
coaches of the ECHL teams.
Josh
Soares of Alaska finished second while Oren
Eizenman of Fresno was third and Anton
Khudobin of Texas and Travis
Morin of South Carolina tied for fourth.
Desharnais was named to the
ECHL All-Rookie Team on Thursday and
First Team All-ECHL on Friday. He led the ECHL with 77 assists, 39
power-play assists and 106 points while his plus-minus rating of +38 led
league rookies and is second overall.
His 106 points is the most scored by a rookie since 1996-97 when Dany
Bousquet of Pee Dee had 107 points (54g-53a) in 68 games. He is only the
fourth rookie in 20 years to lead the ECHL in scoring joining Alex
Leavitt of Alaska (91 points in 2005-06), Daryl Harpe of Erie (122
points in 1988-89) and Bill McDougall of Erie (148 points in 1989-90). The
21 year old is 10th on the list of 16 rookies who have scored 100 points.
Desharnais was named Vector CCM Rookie of the Month in
November,
February and
March. He set the ECHL record with an
assist in 20 consecutive games from Jan. 5-Feb. 29 and he had the
fourth-longest scoring streak in league history with 27 games from Dec.
31, 2007-Mar. 12, 2008. He has already broken the team record of 75 points
by Gorski in 1997-98 and Matt Noga in 2002-03 and the club mark of 51
assists by Noga in 2002-03. He was selected to the ECHL All-Star Game after
scoring 27 points (6g-21a) in 22 games. He is under AHL contract to
Hamilton and has one assist and six penalty minutes in four games with the
Bulldogs.
Plus Performer of the Year and the Leading Scorer awards will be announced
Monday.
ECHL Rookie of the Year Winners
2007-08 David
Desharnais, Cincinnati Cyclones
2006-07 Colton
Fretter, Gwinnett Gladiators
2005-06 Alex
Leavitt, Alaska Aces
2004-05 Joe Tenute, South Carolina Stingrays
2003-04 Kevin Doell, Gwinnett Gladiators
2002-03 Jason Jaffray, Roanoke Express
2001-02 Frederic Cloutier, Louisiana IceGators
2000-01 Scott
Stirling, Trenton Titans
1999-00 Jan Lasak, Hampton Roads Admirals
1998-99 Maxime Gingras, Richmond Renegades
1997-98 Sean
Venedam, Toledo Storm
1996-97 Dany Bousquet, Birmingham Bulls
1995-96 Keli Corpse, Wheeling Thunderbirds
1994-95 Kevin McKinnon, Erie Panthers
1993-94 Dan Gravelle, Greensboro Monarchs
1992-93 Joe Flanagan, Birmingham Bulls
1991-92 Darren Colbourne, Dayton Bombers
1990-91 Dan Gauthier, Knoxville Cherokees
1989-90 Bill McDougall, Erie Panthers
1988-89 Tom Sasso, Johnstown Chiefs
ECHL
Celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2007-08, the ECHL is the Premier 'AA'
Hockey League and 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 25 teams playing 900 games in 17 states and
British Columbia in 2007-08.
The league officially changed its name to ECHL on May
19, 2003.
The ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 30 teams in the NHL in 2007-08,
marking the 11th consecutive season that the league has had affiliations
with at least 20 teams in the NHL.
There have been 353
former ECHL players who have gone on to play in the NHL after playing in
the ECHL, including 97 in the last three seasons. There have been 208
former ECHL players who have played their first game in the NHL in the past
seven seasons.
There are 15 coaches in the NHL who have ECHL experience including former
Wheeling coach Peter Laviolette, who is head coach of the Carolina
Hurricanes, and former Mississippi coach Bruce
Boudreau, who is head coach of the Washington Capitals.
The ECHL is represented for the seventh consecutive year on the National
Hockey League championship team in 2007 with Anaheim assistant coach Dave
Farrish, players Francois Beauchemin and George Parros and broadcasters
John Ahlers and Steve Carroll.
The ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 29 teams in the American Hockey
League in 2007-08 and for the past 18 years there has been an ECHL player
on the Calder Cup champion.
In each of the last two seasons there have been more than 225 players who
have played in both the ECHL and the AHL and there were over 800 call-ups
involving more than 500 players. In the last five 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.
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