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Published on October 24, 2007 under ECHL (ECHL) News Release


South Carolina Stingrays (1-1-0) at Johnstown Chiefs (1-2-0) 10:35 a.m. ET
- Johnstown is ranked fifth in the ECHL on the power play at home with 22.2 percent (4-for-18).
- Stingray rookie Travis Morin is tied for the team lead with a goal and three points.
- Jean Desrochers leads the Chiefs with three assists and four points.
- South Carolina defenseman Nate Kiser has a goal and an assist in two games.



Reading Royals (1-1-0) at Pensacola Ice Pilots (0-2-0) 7:05 CT
- Rookie Mathieu Roy leads Ice Pilots with two goals and is tied for the team lead with two points.
- Royals are 1-1-0 when out shooting their opponents.
- Pensacola defenseman Jean-Claude Sawyer has a goal and an assist in two games.
- Reading defenseman P.J. Atherton is tied for the team lead with two goals.



Alaska Aces (0-1-0) at Bakersfield Condors (2-0-0) 7:00 PT
- Aces were 2-2-0 at Bakersfield and 5-3-1 overall against the Condors in 2006-07.
- Bakersfield is 2-0-0 in one-goal games this season.
- Alaska's Barrett Heisten had two assists in a 4-2 loss at Fresno on Oct. 23.
- Condors' Jamie Hodson is 1-0-0 with a 1.89 goals-against and a .952 save percentage.



Stockton Thunder (0-3-0) at Phoenix RoadRunners (3-0-0) 7:11 PT
- RoadRunners have not allowed a power-play goal in 24 tries and have two shorthand goals.
- Stockton is ranked fifth in the ECHL on the power play on the road with 19.0 percent (4-for-21).
- Phoenix's Daniel Sisca is tied for second in the ECHL with six points (4g-2a) in three games.
- Jesse Bennefield leads the Thunder with two goals and three points in three games.



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Premier 'AA' Hockey League Fast Facts

- Affiliations with 26 of the 30 teams in the National Hockey League, marking the 11th consecutive season that the league has had affiliations with at least 20 teams in the NHL.

- 333 former ECHL players have played in NHL.

- There were 69 former ECHL players on NHL opening-day rosters and there have been 188 former ECHL players who have played their first game in the NHL in the past six seasons.

- Twenty-six former ECHL players made their NHL debut in 2006-07, including two who played in both the ECHL and the NHL as goaltender Yutaka Fukufuji played for Reading and Los Angeles while defenseman Bryan Young skated for Stockton and Edmonton. Dave McKee played for Augusta and dressed for five games as the backup goaltender for Stanley Cup champion Anaheim.

- Four former ECHL players have made their NHL debut this season: former Johnstown Chiefs and Fresno Falcons goaltender Dmitri Patzold (San Jose on Oct. 7), former San Diego goaltender Tyler Weiman (Colorado on Oct. 4), former Charlotte right wing Craig Weller (Phoenix on Oct. 4) and former Phoenix RoadRunners center Daniel Winnik (Phoenix Coyotes on Oct. 4).

- Record 51 former ECHL players played their first NHL game in 2005-06.

- ECHL has been represented on last seven Stanley Cup champions.

- 14 Former ECHL coaches on NHL staffs.

- ECHL has been represented on last 18 Calder Cup champions.

- ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 29 teams in the American Hockey League and for the past 18 years there has been an ECHL player on the Calder Cup Champion.

- The Stockton Thunder and the City of Stockton will host the 16th Annual ECHL All-Star Game at Stockton Arena on Jan. 23, 2008 and the 11th Annual ECHL All-Star Skills Competition on Jan. 22, 2008.

- 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.
ECHL and its member teams contributed nearly $3 million for charity and relief funds in 2006-07.

- Further information on the ECHL is available from its website at ECHL.com.

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