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ECHL Has Five Players, Coach In Stanley Cup Finals

May 24, 2007 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release


PRINCETON, N.J. - For the seventh consecutive year a former ECHL player will be a member of the National Hockey League Champion.

The ECHL is represented in the Stanley Cup Finals by Anaheim assistant coach Dave Farrish and Ducks players Francois Beauchemin and George Parros and by Ottawa players Joe Corvo, Chris Neil and Lawrence Nycholat.

For the sixth consecutive year that the Stanley Cup was awarded, the ECHL was represented in 2006 by Carolina head coach Peter Laviolette, who became the first ECHL coach to hoist the coveted trophy, Chad LaRose, Andrew Hutchinson and assistant athletic trainer Chris Stewart.

The ECHL was represented on each of the 16 teams in the Stanley Cup Playoffs including more than 30 players for the second year in a row and over 25 players for the fourth straight season. For the third year in a row there were six former ECHL coaches behind the benches of teams in the NHL postseason. Four referees and three linesmen with ECHL experience worked the Stanley Cup Playoffs, seven of the 15 former league officials who worked in the NHL in 2006-07.

There are 11 former ECHL players whose names are on the Stanley Cup: Chad LaRose and Andrew Hutchinson (Carolina - 2006), Ruslan Fedotenko, Nolan Pratt and Andre Roy (Tampa Bay - 2004), Corey Schwab (New Jersey - 2003), Manny Legace (Detroit - 2002), David Aebischer and Nolan Pratt (Colorado - 2001), Krzysztof Oliwa (New Jersey - 2000) and Kevin Dean (New Jersey - 1995). Pratt is the only ECHL player to have his name engraved twice on the Stanley Cup.

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