
ECHL Today
January 23, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
Wheeling Nailers (22-11-6) at Johnstown Chiefs (23-14-2) 7:05 p.m.
ET
- Blair
Yaworski leads the Chiefs against Wheeling with five goals and six
points in two games.
- Wheeling rookie Bryan
Ewing has a 10-game point streak (14g-6a) and a seven-game goal streak
(11g).
- Johnstown's Kris
Mayotte is 3-1-0 with a goals-against average of 2.71 against Wheeling.
- Nailers lead the league with 163 goals and 4.18 goals per game.
Elmira Jackals (20-17-4) at Trenton Devils (19-16-3) 7:30 p.m.
ET
- Trenton's Gerald
Coleman is 4-0-0 with a shutout and a goals-against average of 1.25 in
his last four starts.
- Benoit
Doucet leads the Jackals against Trenton with four goals and seven
points in seven games.
- Devils' Tony
Zancanaro has five assists and six points in his last four games.
- Elmira's Derek
Couture has eight assists and 10 points in his last nine games.
Gwinnett Gladiators (16-17-4) at Florida Everblades (28-8-2) 7:30 p.m.
ET
- Kevin
Baker leads the Everblades against Gwinnett with eight goals and 15
points in seven games.
- Gwinnett rookie Matt
Siddall has nine points (4g-5a) in his last eight games.
- Florida's Anton
Khudobin is 5-1-0 with two shutouts and a goals-against average of 1.17
against Gwinnett.
- Rookie Joe
Fallon is 3-1-0 with a goals-against average of 2.45 in his first four
games with the Gladiators.
Dayton Bombers (21-16-4) at Cincinnati Cyclones (20-15-5) 7:30 p.m.
ET
- Ryan
Nie is 4-0-0 in five games since being acquired by the Cyclones from
Bakersfield.
- Bombers have won the last two meetings to improve to 4-3-1 in the season
series against Cincinnati.
- Cyclones defenseman TJ
McElroy has three-game point streak (1g-8a) and 11 points in last six
games (1g-10a).
- Dayton defenseman Brock
Wilson has six points (2g-4a) in his last six games.
Charlotte Checkers (19-17-2) at Mississippi Sea Wolves (15-20-3) 7 p.m.
CT
- Mississippi's Ryan
Munce is 2-1-0 with a goals-against average of 1.68 against Charlotte.
- Charlotte's Jeff
Jakaitis is 4-1-0 with a goals-against average of 2.18 against
Mississippi.
- Ryan
Cruthers leads the Sea Wolves against Charlotte with four assists and
seven points in six games.
- Checkers' Matthew
Ford has a six-game point streak (3g-7a) and has scored in 19 21 games
(16g-15a),
Idaho Steelheads (21-14-3) at Utah Grizzlies (15-14-8) 7:05 p.m.
MT
- Grizzlies' Ryan
Kinasewich has a five-game point streak (4g-10a) and 20 points (6g-14a)
in his last 10 games.
- Steelheads have won the last five meetings and are 6-1-1 in the season
series with the Grizzlies.
- Tim
Verbeek leads the Grizzlies against Idaho with five goals and six
points in eight games.
- Defenseman Kory
Scoran leads the Steelheads in the last five games with seven assists
and seven points.
Alaska Aces (23-14-2) at Bakersfield Condors (13-21-5) 7 p.m.
PT
- Chad
Painchaud leads the Condors against Alaska with seven assists and nine
points in five games.
- Alaska's Jean-Philippe
Lamoureux is 5-1-0 with a shutout and a goals-against average of 2.17
in his last six starts.
- Bakersfield's Yutaka
Fukufuji is 2-1-1 in his last four games including a win against Alaska
on Jan. 10.
- Erik
Fabian leads the Aces in the last five games with six points (3g-3a).
Victoria Salmon Kings (26-10-4) at Las Vegas Wranglers (16-16-3) 7:30
p.m. PT
- Rookie Adam
Miller leads the Wranglers in the last 10 games with 10 assists and 15
points.
- Victoria's Olivier
Filion has seven assists and eight points in his last six games.
- Las Vegas' Justin
Taylor has 12 points (7g-5a) in his last 12 games.
- Salmon Kings' Wes
Goldie has 20 goals and 26 points in his last 20 games.
Phoenix RoadRunners (15-17-3) at Stockton Thunder (17-17-5) 7:30 p.m.
PT
- Thunder's Bryan
Pitton is 3-0-0 with two overtime wins and a goals-against average of
1.98 in his last three starts.
- Phoenix's Craig
Kowalski is 2-0-0 with an overtime win and a save percentage of .904 in
his last two starts.
- Stockton's James
Bates has a five-game point streak (4g-9a) and a five-game assist
streak (9a).
- RoadRunners' Gino
Guyer has a three-game point streak (0g-4a) and nine points (1g-8a) in
his last seven games.
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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 21 teams in 16 states and British Columbia in
2008-09.
* The league officially changed its name from East Coast Hockey League to
ECHL on May
19, 2003.
* Affiliations with 24 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.
* 390 former ECHL
players have played in NHL.
ï* 134 have played their first NHL game in the last four seasons.
ï* 35 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 Stockton Thunder and ECHL
All-Star right wing Troy
Bodie (Anaheim on Jan. 16), former Bakersfield Condors center Alexandre
Bolduc (Vancouver on Nov. 27), former Florida Everblades defenseman Brett
Carson (Carolina on Dec. 7), former South Carolina Stingrays defenseman
Sean
Collins (Washington on Dec. 6), former Las Vegas Wranglers and Wheeling
Nailers goaltender John
Curry (Pittsburgh on Nov. 26), former Greenville Grrrowl goaltender
Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers (Edmonton on Oct. 17), former Johnstown Chiefs
center Andre
Deveaux (Toronto on Nov. 27), former Dayton Bombers center Philippe
Dupuis (Colorado on Dec. 12), former Gwinnett Gladiators left wing Chris
Durno (Colorado on Jan. 18), former Gwinnett Gladiators right wing Pat
Dwyer, former Columbus Cottonmouths and Tallahassee Tiger Sharks left
wing Mitch
Fritz (New York Islanders on Oct. 30), former South Carolina Stingrays
right wing Andrew
Gordon (Washington on Dec. 23), 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 Gwinnett Gladiators
defenseman Scott
Lehman (Atlanta on Dec. 18), former Charlotte Checkers defenseman Steve
MacIntyre (Edmonton on Oct. 15), former Florida Everblades left wing Kenndal
McArdle (Florida on Dec. 2), former All-Star and Wheeling Nailers
center Kurtis
McLean (New York Islanders on Jan. 19), 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 Idaho Steelheads left wing Warren
Peters (Calgary on Dec. 7), former Charlotte Checkers defenseman Corey
Potter (New York Rangers on Dec. 7), former Augusta Lynx defenseman Kevin
Quick (Tampa Bay on Jan. 13), former Charlotte Checkers, Columbia
Inferno and Elmira Jackals defenseman Bryan
Rodney (Carolina on Dec. 11), former Gwinnett Gladiators center Jared
Ross (Philadelphia on Oct. 11), former Alaska Aces goaltender Marek
Schwarz (St. Louis on Oct. 25), former Greenville Grrrowl and Stockton
Thunder center Tim
Sestito (Edmonton on Nov. 26), former Dayton Bombers and Las Vegas
Wranglers defenseman Tyler
Sloan (Washington on Oct. 21), former Utah Grizzlies and ECHL All-Star
center Trevor
Smith (New York Islanders on Dec. 31), former Johnstown Chiefs and
Mississippi Sea Wolves forward Radek
Smolenak (Tampa Bay on Dec. 2), former Augusta Lynx defenseman Brett
Skinner (New York Islanders on Oct. 27), former Las Vegas Wranglers and
ECHL All-Star defenseman Tyson
Strachan (St. Louis on Dec. 18), former Wheeling Nailers right wing Tim
Wallace (Pittsburgh on Dec. 10) and former Idaho Steelheads center Tom
Wandell (Dallas on Dec. 10).
* 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: 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 and Scott
Gordon of the New York Islanders. 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. Peter 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 23 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.
ECHL Stories from January 23, 2009
- Aces hand Condors 5-2 loss at The Nest - Bakersfield Condors
- RoadRunners Silence Thunder 4-1 - Phoenix RoadRunners
- Grizzlies Fall to Idaho In Overtime, 6-5 - Utah Grizzlies
- Steelheads beat Utah in OT, 6-5 - Idaho Steelheads
- Chiefs fall short against Nailers - Johnstown Chiefs
- Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Seat Auction Hits eBay - Las Vegas Wranglers
- Checkers' Miles supplies heroics in OT against Wolves - Charlotte Checkers
- Blades win streak ends at 9 after 3-1 loss to Gwinnett - Florida Everblades
- Deschamps notches two goals but Sea Wolves fall to Checkers in OT 6-5 - Mississippi Sea Wolves
- Bombers Fall Behind Early, Lose At Cincinnati 7-1 - Dayton Bombers
- Coleman Tames Jackals in 2-1 Devils Victory - Trenton Devils
- Gladiators Knock off Everblades 3-1 - Atlanta Gladiators
- Erik Johnson's 2 Goals Lead Nailers Back to âW' Column - Wheeling Nailers
- Cyclones Score Early, Often, In 7-1 Win Over Dayton - Cincinnati Cyclones
- Reign shuffle roster; Rheault back in lineup - Ontario Reign
- ECHL Transactions - January 23 - ECHL
- Johnson Called up to Lake Erie - Atlanta Gladiators
- Kelly Cup Playoffs Format - ECHL
- Chiefs Acquire Defenseman Card - Johnstown Chiefs
- Stockton's Lalonde Named In Glas Co ECHL Player Of The Week - ECHL
- McEwan Returns From AHL Worcester - Phoenix RoadRunners
- Lalonde Named In Glas Co ECHL Player of the Week - Stockton Thunder
- Hamilton and Czuy Return To Las Vegas; Pair of Forwards Added From the AHL - Las Vegas Wranglers
- First Round Draft Pick Helenius Returns to Sea Wolves - Mississippi Sea Wolves
- Rob LaLonde Returned To Reading - Reading Royals
- Game Preview: Stockton Thunder Vs. Phoenix - Stockton Thunder
- Checkers Jakaitis Returns From Monarchs - Charlotte Checkers
- Bakersfield Condors vs. Alaska Aces - Bakersfield Condors
- Clarke, Goebel Return from AHL Teams - Wheeling Nailers
- Royals Road Warriors Ready To Mount Second Annual 'Expedition to Elmira' - Reading Royals
- Royals and U.S. Army Present Fourth Annual 'Battle of the Badges' - Reading Royals
- ECHL Today - ECHL
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