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December 6, 2006 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release


Cincinnati Cyclones (8-8-1) at Reading Royals (7-8-4) 6:35 p.m. ET
* Royals have won last two meetings to improve to 4-0-1 in the last five and 6-3-1 all-time against Cyclones.
* Cincinnati rookie Cedrick Desjardins is 2-0-0 with goals-against average of 1.50 in his last two games.
* Reading's John Snowden has a two-game assist streak (3a) and a four-game point streak (3g-3a).
* Cyclones' Jean-Michel Daoust has a four-game assist streak (4a) and a four-game point streak (2g-4a).

Phoenix RoadRunners (10-9-0) at Idaho Steelheads (11-6-2) 7:10 p.m. MT
* Idaho is 3-0-0 at home and 7-0-0 overall against the RoadRunners.
* Phoenix's Brett Smith has a four-game goal streak (5g) and a four-game point streak (5g-2a).
* Idaho's Derek Nesbitt has 14 points (4g-10a) in his last 10 games, including six games with two points.
* RoadRunners rookie defenseman Brian Yandle has six points (2g-4a) in his last six games.

Long Beach Ice Dogs (4-12-2) at Victoria Salmon Kings (7-10-1) 7:05 p.m. PT
* Mike Stutzel leads the Salmon Kings the last four games with four goals and seven points.
* Ice Dogs are 8-0-0 at Victoria and 15-1-0 all-time against Salmon Kings, including 5-1-0 in 2005-06.
* F.P. Guenette leads Victoria with 15 assists and 20 points, including 11 points (1g-10a) in last seven games.
* Long Beach's Mark Hurtubise has eight points (5g-3a) in his last seven games.

Fresno Falcons (11-7-0) at Alaska Aces (11-7-0) 7:15 p.m. AT
* First meeting since Alaska's 3-2 double-overtime win in Game 7 of National Conference Finals.
* Fresno's John Morlang had three goals on Saturday and leads the team with 10 goals.
* Last 10 regular season meetings at Alaska have been one-goal games with Aces holding 7-3 advantage.
* Falcon rookie Ryan MacDonald is 2-0-0 with goals-against average of 1.94 in his last two starts.

Premier 'AA' Hockey League Fast Facts
* Affiliations with 25 of the 30 teams in the National Hockey League marking 10th consecutive season that the league has had affiliations with at least 20 teams in the NHL.
* 308 former ECHL players have played in NHL.
* 162 have made NHL debut in the last five seasons, including goaltenders Barry Brust, Joey MacDonald, Mike Smith and Mike Wall and center Drew Larman this season, and a record 47 in 2005-06.
* ECHL has been represented on last six Stanley Cup champions.
* Two NHL head coaches (Peter Laviolette & Jim Playfair) and 9 assistant coaches have ECHL experience.
* Affiliations with 24 of the 27 teams in the American Hockey League.
* ECHL has been represented on last 17 Calder Cup champions.
* For each of the past four seasons, ECHL has had more players called up to AHL than all other professional leagues combined. From 2002-06 the ECHL had 1,646 call ups, involving almost 1,000 players, including 416 call ups involving 263 players last season.
* Idaho Steelheads and City of Boise will host the 15th Annual ECHL All-Star Game presented by Rbk Hockey on Jan. 17 and the 10th Annual ECHL All-Star Skills Competition presented by Rbk Hockey on Jan. 16 at Qwest Arena.
* ECHL and its member teams contributed more than $2.3 million for charity and relief funds in 2005-06.

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