
ECHL Today
February 13, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
Reading Royals (15-29-4) at Johnstown Chiefs (27-18-2) 7:05 p.m.
ET
- Johnstown is 7-0-0 in the season series and has won the last 11 meetings
dating back to Feb. 27 2008.
- Rookie Dan
Rudisuela leads the Royals in the last five games with six points
(3g-3a).
- Ryan
Del Monte leads the Chiefs against Reading with nine points and is tied
for the lead with seven assists.
- PJ
Atherton leads the Royals against Johnstown with 10 points (5g-5a) in
eight games.
Wheeling Nailers (25-15-7) at Dayton Bombers (23-22-5) 7:30 p.m.
ET
- Jarret
Lukin (7g-4a) and Christian
Gaudet (3g-8a) lead the Bombers against Wheeling with 11 points each.
- Jordan
Morrison leads the Nailers against Dayton with 10 assists and 13 points
in nine games.
- Dayton's Paul
Drew is 2-0-0 with a goals-against average of 3.20 against Wheeling.
- Wheeling is 20-5-5 when it scores first and 19-2-0 when leading after two
periods.
Cincinnati Cyclones (27-18-5) at Florida Everblades (34-12-2) 7:30
p.m. ET
- Everblades' Kevin
Baker has a 10-game point streak (11g-11a) and a six-game assist streak
(10a).
- Cyclones rookie Mark
Van Guilder has 21 assists and 30 points in his last 20 games.
- Florida defenseman Peter
Metcalf has 11 assists and 13 points in his last nine games.
- Cincinnati's Dustin
Sproat has four assists and six points in his last six games.
Trenton Devils (24-18-4) at Elmira Jackals (27-19-4) 7:35 p.m.
ET
- Elmira's Mitch
O'Keefe is 4-0-0 with a shutout and a goals-against average of 1.47 in
his last four starts.
- Devils rookie Jeremy
Akeson a three-game goal streak (4g) and a three-game assist streak
(3a).
- Jackals' Chris
Korchinski has six points (2g-4a) in his last four games and 18 points
(9g-9a) in his last 15 games.
- Trenton rookie Jeff
Prough has six goals and seven points in his last seven games.
Charlotte Checkers (25-20-2) at Mississippi Sea Wolves (20-24-5) 7 p.m.
CT
- Rookie Ryan
Cruthers leads the Sea Wolves against Charlotte with five goals and 10
points in eight games.
- Checkers have won the last three meetings to improve to 6-2-0 in season
series against Mississippi.
- Mississippi defenseman Kyle
Peto has five assists and five points in his last five games.
- Mike
Bayrack leads the Checkers against Mississippi with five goals, five
assists and 10 points in seven games.
Phoenix RoadRunners (20-22-3) at Idaho Steelheads (26-15-3) 7:10 p.m.
MT
- Idaho rookie Kris
Sparre has seven assists and 11 points in his last six games.
- RoadRunners' Gino
Guyer has five points (3g-2a) in his last three games.
- Steelheads' Bryan
McGregor has a five-game point streak (3g-5a).
- Phoenix's Dan
DaSilva has four points (1g-3a) in his last three games.
Ontario Reign (25-18-4) at Bakersfield Condors (17-27-6) 7 p.m.
PT
- Condors' Yutaka
Fukufuji is 3-1-0 with a goals-against average of 3.25 in his last four
starts.
- Ontario's Geoff
Walker is fourth among league rookies with 20 power-play points
(8ppg-12ppa).
- Chad
Painchaud leads the Condors against Ontario with eight assists and nine
points in seven games.
- Reign's Jeff
Zatkoff leads ECHL with a save percentage of .936 and is third with a
goals-against average of 2.25.
Utah Grizzlies (17-16-13) at Stockton Thunder (23-21-5) 7:30 p.m.
PT
- Stockton's Mike
Lalonde has a four-game point streak (3g-3a) and a three-game goal
streak (3g).
- Utah's Michael
Mole is 2-0-0 with a goals-against average of 2.50 against Stockton.
- Damian
Surma leads the Thunder in the last 10 games with seven assists and 10
points.
- Grizzlies rookie James
Brannigan has a three-game point streak (4g-2a).
Victoria Salmon Kings (29-16-5) at Alaska Aces (28-18-3) 7:15 p.m.
AT
- Aces have won the last four meetings and are 4-0-0 at home and 6-4-0
overall in the season series against Victoria.
- Adam
Taylor leads the Salmon Kings in the last five games with three goals
and three points.
- Alaska's Scott
Burt has three points (1g-2a) in his last two games.
- Victoria leads the ECHL with a goals-against average of 2.34.
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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.
* 394 former ECHL
players have played in NHL.
* 138 have played their first NHL game in the last four seasons.
* 39 former ECHL players have made their NHL debut this season: former
Idaho Steelheads forward Jay
Beagle (Washington on Feb. 11), 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 13, 2009
- Steelheads lose to RoadRunners, 3-1 - Idaho Steelheads
- Shorthanded RoadRunners Trip Up Idaho 3-1 - Phoenix RoadRunners
- Jackals Streak Ends in Shootout Loss - Elmira Jackals
- Chiefs dethrone Royals - Johnstown Chiefs
- Checkers three game winning streak halted by the Sea Wolves - Charlotte Checkers
- Devils Win Over Jackals in Shootout, 4-3 - Trenton Devils
- Sea Wolves come from behind in third to win shootout - Mississippi Sea Wolves
- Game Preview: Ontario Reign At Bakersfield Condors - Ontario Reign
- Blades suffer 3-2 loss to Cincinnati - Florida Everblades
- Dayton Bombers Even Season Series at 5 Games Each - Wheeling Nailers
- Cyclones Drop Florida, 3-2 - Cincinnati Cyclones
- Bombers Cut Down Wheeling 5-2 - Dayton Bombers
- ECHL Transactions - ECHL
- Cyclones Sign Bill Kinkel and Ryan Van Buskirk - Cincinnati Cyclones
- DaSilva Recalled To AHL Worcester - Phoenix RoadRunners
- Pink in the Rink Night Just Two Weeks Away - South Carolina Stingrays
- O'Dette Named Third Captain in Thunder History - Stockton Thunder
- Bakersfield Condors vs. Ontario Reign - Bakersfield Condors
- Game Preview: Stockton Thunder Vs. Utah Grizzlies - Stockton Thunder
- Curry Named Reebok/AHL Player Of The Week - ECHL
- Nailers Look To Bounce Back In Dayton - Wheeling Nailers
- ECHL Today - ECHL
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