
ECHL Today
February 6, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
Florida Everblades (33-9-2) at South Carolina Stingrays (22-18-5) 7:05
p.m. ET
- Everblades are 10-3-2 in their last 15 games at South Carolina.
- Travis
Morin leads the Stingrays against Florida with eight assists and 13
points in 10 games.
- Florida's Anton
Khudobin is 6-1-0 with a goals-against average of 2.01 in his last
seven games.
- Stingray rookie defenseman Josh
Godfrey has four assists and five points in his last two games.
Reading Royals (14-29-3) at Trenton Devils (22-17-3) 7:30 p.m.
ET
- Trenton's Eric
Castonguay has a six-game point streak (2g-7a) and a four-game assist
streak (5a).
- Royals' Michael
Ouzas is 1-0-0 with a goals-against average of 2.00 against Trenton.
- Devils' Charlie
Effinger is 2-1-0 with a goals-against average of 2.01 against Reading.
- Reading defenseman Tim
Branham has three points (0g-3a) in his last two games.
Johnstown Chiefs (26-16-2) at Elmira Jackals (24-19-4) 7:35 p.m.
ET
- Josh
Aspenlind leads the Jackals against Johnstown with four goals and eight
points in seven games.
- Johnstown's Petr
Pohl has an eight-game point streak (7g-6a).
- Elmira's Paul
McIlveen has a three-game point streak (1g-3a) and six points (2g-4a)
in his last five games.
- Chiefs' Ian
Keserich is 2-2-0 with a goals-against average of 2.27 against Elmira.
Dayton Bombers (22-20-5) at Wheeling Nailers (24-14-6) 7:35 p.m.
ET
- Wheeling's Bryan
Ewing leads ECHL rookies with 29 goals and 60 points in 43 games.
- Jarret
Lukin leads the Bombers against Wheeling with seven goals and 11 points
in eight games.
- Jordan
Morrison leads the Nailers against Dayton with eight assists and 11
points in eight games.
- Dayton's Tomas
Zaborsky has a three-game point streak (3g-1a) and a three-game goal
streak (3g).
Cincinnati Cyclones (25-16-5) at Mississippi Sea Wolves (18-22-4) 7
p.m. CT
- Cyclones have won the last two meetings to improve to 2-1-1 all-time
against Mississippi.
- Sea Wolves' Mathieu
Melanson has six points in his last two games (2g-4a).
- Cincinnati rookie Jimmy
Kilpatrick has an eight-game point streak (9g-10a) and an eight-game
goal streak (9g).
- Mississippi's Ryan
Munce is 3-2-0 with a save percentage of .913 in his last five games.
Phoenix RoadRunners (19-20-3) at Utah Grizzlies (15-14-13) 7:05 p.m.
MT
- Grizzlies have gone past regulation in their last eight games and 11
times in the last 15 games.
- RoadRunners have won the last three meetings and are 3-1-0 in season
series and 15-14-2 all-time against Utah.
- Utah's Michael
Mole is 1-0-1 with a goals-against average of 0.96 against Phoenix.
- Phoenix's Craig
Kowalski is 6-1-0 with a goals-against average of 2.63 in his last
seven games.
Stockton Thunder (21-20-5) at Ontario Reign (24-16-4) 7 p.m.
PT
- Reign rookie John
Murray is 3-0-0 with a goals-against average of 1.33 against Stockton.
- Stockton's Damian
Surma has a six-game point streak (3g-5a) and a three-game assist
streak (4a).
- Ontario rookie Tim
Kraus has four assists and six points in his last five games.
- Thunder rookie Andrew
Perugini is 6-0-0 with a shutout and a goals-against average of 1.81 in
his last six games.
Alaska Aces (27-15-3) at Bakersfield Condor (14-26-6) 7 p.m.
PT
- Bakersfield's Mark
Derlago has three points (2g-1a) in the last two games and 10 points in
his last 10 games.
- Aces' Jean-Philippe
Lamoureux is 8-1-1 with two shutouts and a goals-against average of
2.28 in his last 10 starts.
- Condors' Matt
Pope is second among ECHL rookies with 25 goals and tied for third with
47 points.
- Colin
Hemingway leads Alaska against Bakersfield with seven assists and nine
points in six games.
Las Vegas Wranglers (21-18-4) at Victoria Salmon Kings (29-13-4) 7:05
p.m. PT
- Victoria's Wes
Goldie has four goals in his last four games and is second in the ECHL
with 37 goals.
- Wranglers' Glenn
Fisher is 4-0-0 with a goals-against average of 2.00 in his last four
starts.
- Chris
St. Jacques leads the Salmon Kings in the last five games with five
points (3g-2a).
- Las Vegas' Tyler
Mosienko has a seven-game point streak (3g-5a).
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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.
* 393 former ECHL
players have played in NHL.
* 137 have played their first NHL game in the last four seasons.
* 38 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 Augusta Lynx and Mississippi Sea
Wolves goaltender Riku
Helenius (Tampa Bay on Jan. 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 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), two-time All-Star and former Las Vegas
Wranglers goaltender Mike
McKenna (Tampa Bay on Feb. 3), 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 center Jakub
Petruzalek (Carolina on Feb. 5), 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 February 6, 2009
- Royals Fall To Trenton in OT, 3-2 - Reading Royals
- Wranglers Trump Salmon Kings 4-2 - Las Vegas Wins Fourth Straight - Las Vegas Wranglers
- Grizzlies Skeleton Crew Falls To Phoenix - Utah Grizzlies
- RoadRunners Take A Bite Out Of Grizzlies 6-1 - Phoenix RoadRunners
- Snavely, Darling Lead Wheeling to Victory - Wheeling Nailers
- Chiefs nipped by Jackals - Johnstown Chiefs
- Cyclones Make It Seven Straight On Road, 6-2 - Cincinnati Cyclones
- Bombers Lose Heartbreaker at Wheeling 3-2 - Dayton Bombers
- O'Keefe Wins Goalie Battle, 1-0 - Elmira Jackals
- Cyclones sweep away Sea Wolves in first game of series, 6-2 - Mississippi Sea Wolves
- Prough Carries Devils to 3-2 Overtime Win - Trenton Devils
- Rays Trump Everblades 4-3 - South Carolina Stingrays
- Stingrays battle from behind to burn Blades 4-3 - Florida Everblades
- Ehgoetz Suffers Lower Body Injury - Cincinnati Cyclones
- Condors sign forwards Carisio and Ban - Bakersfield Condors
- ECHL Transactions - ECHL
- Royals Activate Forward Ryan Gibbons - Reading Royals
- Alaska's Erickson Is PaySourceUSA Plus Performer of the Month - ECHL
- Game Preview: Ontario Reign vs. Stockton Thunder - Ontario Reign
- Bakersfield Condors vs. Alaska Aces - Bakersfield Condors
- Game Preview: Stockton Thunder At Ontario Reign - Stockton Thunder
- Petruzalek Is 393rd Player To Play In NHL After ECHL - ECHL
- Florida's Leggio Is RBC Financial Group Saver of the Month - ECHL
- Brent Krahn Called Up To Dallas Stars - Las Vegas Wranglers
- Condorstown native David Carr to speak at Feb. 21 game - Bakersfield Condors
- Florida's Leggio Is RBC Financial Group Saver of the Month - Florida Everblades
- Game Preview: Rays Host Division-Leading Florida Tonight at 7:05 p.m. - South Carolina Stingrays
- Leggio named ECHL Goalie of the Month - Florida Everblades
- ECHL Today - ECHL
- Forward Hughes assigned to Blades - Florida Everblades
- Five Players To AHL In Last 48 Hours; Gleed, Hart Recalled - Utah Grizzlies
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