ECHL Today
November 25, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
Mississippi Sea Wolves (6-7-2) at Charlotte Checkers (7-7-1) 7 p.m.
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- Checkers have won the last three games and are 3-1-0 in the season series
and 10-7-0 all-time against Mississippi.
- Ryan
Cruthers leads the Sea Wolves against Charlotte with four assists and
six points in four games.
- Charlotte's Jeff
Jakaitis is 3-0-0 with a goals-against average of 2.61 in three games
against Mississippi.
- Mississippi's Ryan
Munce is 1-1-0 with a goals-against average of 2.52 in two games
against Charlotte.
Florida Everblades (10-2-1) at Gwinnett Gladiators (6-5-3) 7:05 p.m.
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- Everblades have won the first three meetings of the season to improve to
17-19-6 all-time against Gwinnett.
- Gladiators have won their last three home games to improve to 5-1-3 at
home.
- Florida's Anton
Khudobin is 6-0-0 with two shutouts and a goals-against average of 1.33
in his last six starts.
- Gwinnett's Pat
Bateman has 11 points (5g-6a) in his last six games.
Dayton Bombers (10-4-2) at Cincinnati Cyclones (5-7-3) 7:30 p.m.
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- Bombers are 1-0-0 on road and 2-0-1 overall this season to improve to
29-28-10 all-time against Cincinnati.
- Cyclones' Olivier
Latendresse has a three-game assist streak (3a) and an eight-game point
streak (7g-4a).
- Dan
Riedel (3g-2a) and Jarret
Lukin (1g-4a) lead the Bombers against Cincinnati with five points
each.
- Cincinnati is fifth in the league on the power play with 20.9 percent
(19-for-91).
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Premier 'AA' Hockey League Fast Facts
- The ECHL celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2007-08 and is 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 23 teams playing 828 games in 16 states and
British Columbia in 2008-09.
- The Reading Royals, the City of Reading and the Sovereign Center will
host the 17th
Annual ECHL All-Star Game on Jan. 21, 2009 and the 12th Annual All-Star
Skills Competition on Jan. 20, 2009.
- The league officially changed its name from East Coast Hockey League to
ECHL on May
19, 2003.
- Affiliations with 26 of the 30 teams in the National Hockey League
marking 12th consecutive season that the league has had affiliations with
at least 20 teams in the NHL.
- 368 former ECHL
players have played in NHL.
- 112 have played their first NHL game in the last four seasons.
- 13 former ECHL players have made their NHL debut this season: former
Wheeling Nailers and ECHL All-Star defenseman Paul
Bissonnette (Pittsburgh on Oct. 4), former Greenville Grrrowl
goaltender Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers (Edmonton on Oct. 17), former Gwinnett
Gladiators right wing Pat
Dwyer (Carolina on Nov. 2), former Columbus Cottonmouths and
Tallahassee Tiger Sharks left wing Mitch
Fritz (New York Islanders on Oct. 30), former Charlotte Checkers center
Dwight
Helminen (Carolina on Oct. 28), former Trenton Devils right wing Pierre-Luc
Letourneau-Leblond (New Jersey on Oct. 22), former Charlotte Checkers
defenseman
Steve MacIntyre (Edmonton on Oct. 15), former Phoenix RoadRunners and
Wheeling Nailers center Cam
Paddock (St. Louis on Nov. 14), former Las Vegas Wranglers defenseman
Adam
Pardy (Calgary on Oct. 9), former Gwinnett Gladiators center Jared
Ross (Philadelphia on Oct. 11), former Alaska Aces goaltender Marek
Schwarz (St. Louis on Oct. 25), former Dayton Bombers and Las Vegas
Wranglers defenseman Tyler
Sloan (Washington on Oct. 21) and former Augusta Lynx defenseman Brett
Skinner (New York Islanders on Oct. 27).
- There were 72
former ECHL players on NHL opening-day rosters.
- Twenty-six former ECHL players made their NHL debut in 2007-08, including
six who played in both the ECHL and the NHL as goaltender Chris
Beckford-Tseu (Alaska and St. Louis), Adam
Berti (Pensacola and Chicago), Joe
Jensen (Wheeling and Carolina), Dan
LaCosta (Elmira and Columbus), Jonathan
Quick (Reading and Los Angeles) and Danny
Taylor (Reading and Los Angeles).
- Record 47 former ECHL players played their first NHL game in 2005-06.
- ECHL is represented for the eighth consecutive year on the National
Hockey League championship team in 2008 by
Aaron Downey of the Detroit Red Wings.
- Former ECHL coaches working as head coaches in the NHL are
Bruce Boudreau of the Washington Capitals, Scott
Gordon of the New York Islanders and Peter Laviolette of the Carolina
Hurricanes. Boudreau, who coached Mississippi for three seasons winning the
Kelly Cup championship in 1999, was named
NHL Coach of the Year in 2007-08 becoming the first former ECHL coach
to receive the award. Laviolette, who began his coaching career with the
Wheeling Nailers, led Carolina Hurricanes to the Stanley Cup in 2006.
- There are 18 assistant coaches in the NHL who were players or coaches in
the ECHL.
- There are 18 former ECHL officials scheduled to work as part of the NHL
officiating team in 2008-09 with referees David
Banfield, Chris
Ciamaga, Ghislain
Hebert, Marc Joannette, Mike Leggo, Wes McCauley, Dean Morton, Dan
O'Rourke, Brian Pochmara, Kevin Pollock, Kyle Rehman, Chris Rooney, Justin
St. Pierre and Ian Walsh and linesmen Steve Barton, Brian Mach, Tim
Nowak and Jay Sharrers. Barton, Joannette, Leggo, McCauley, Nowak, Pollock,
Rooney and Sharrers all worked the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
- ECHL has affiliations with 25 of the 29 teams in the American Hockey
League and for the past 19 years there has been an ECHL player on the
Calder Cup Champion.
- In the last six 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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ECHL Stories from November 25, 2008
- Salmon Kings' Labelle Returns To The American Hockey League - Victoria Salmon Kings
- Griffins Assign Atherton To Reign - Ontario Reign
- Bombers Close Out Road Swing With 4-2 Loss At Cincinnati - Dayton Bombers
- Latendresse Nets Pair In Cyclones' 4-2 Win - Cincinnati Cyclones
- Khudobin records second straight shutout; Blades win streak at nine - Florida Everblades
- Gladiators Blanked by Everblades 5-0 - Atlanta Gladiators
- Checkers Shut Out By Sea Wolves, 2-0 - Charlotte Checkers
- Munce's 34 Saves King Checkers As Sea Wolves Win 2-0 - Mississippi Sea Wolves
- Reign Help Aid Fire Victims Friday - Ontario Reign
- Condors announce several player moves - Bakersfield Condors
- Highly Anticipated Teddy Bear Toss this Saturday - Bakersfield Condors
- Condors announce Holiday Gift 4-Packs - Bakersfield Condors
- Dennis Packard Loaned To Bridgeport - Utah Grizzlies
- Henley Recalled to Norfolk - Augusta Lynx
- ECHL Transactions - ECHL
- Lacroix and Pokulok Reassigned to Hershey - South Carolina Stingrays
- RoadRunners To Host Toy Drive At Saturday's Game - Phoenix RoadRunners
- Nailers Darling Named ECHL Goaltender of the Week - Wheeling Nailers
- Wheeling's Darling Named Rbk Hockey ECHL Goaltender Of The Week - ECHL
- Weekly Arrowhead - Johnstown Chiefs
- 2009 ECHL Hall Of Fame Class Is Brophy, Cullen, Nemeth, Taylor - ECHL
- Cambria County Youth To Get First Taste Of National Hockey League Support - Johnstown Chiefs
- Bombers Host Three Game Hockey Weekend - Dayton Bombers
- Wheeling Hockey Hall Of Fame Class Of 2008 Announced - Wheeling Nailers
- Forward Reed assigned to Blades - Florida Everblades
- Nailers To Appear At Riesbecks Food Markets Tuesday - Wheeling Nailers
- Nailers Battle Johnstown Wednesday Night - Wheeling Nailers
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