
ECHL Today
Published on March 11, 2009 under ECHL (ECHL) News Release
Wheeling Nailers (31-22-7) at Reading Royals (20-36-4) 7:05 p.m.
ET
- Royals rookie Michael
Ouzas has won his last two starts against Wheeling and is 2-1-0 overall
against Nailers.
- Wheeling rookie Bryan
Ewing has an eight-game point streak (6g-6a) and a two-game goal streak
(3g).
- Reading rookie Dan
Rudisuela has four goals and seven points in his last four games.
- Nailers rookie Billy
Ryan has a four-game point streak (1g-6a) and a four-game assist streak
(6a).
South Carolina Stingrays (33-22-5) at Mississippi Sea Wolves
(25-28-7) 7 p.m. CT
- Ryan
Menei leads the Sea Wolves against South Carolina with six assists and
10 points in nine games.
- South Carolina's Jeff
Corey has three goals and five points in his last four games.
- Mississippi's Mathieu
Melanson has eight assists and 15 points in his last nine games.
- Stingrays' Jonathan
Boutin is 2-0-0 with a shootout win and a goals-against average of 0.96
in his last two starts.
Idaho Steelheads (35-18-4) at Utah Grizzlies (23-22-15) 7:05 p.m.
MT
- Eight of the 13 meetings this season have been one-goal games including
four shootouts and three in overtime.
- Kris
Sparre leads the Steelheads against Utah with eight goals and 18 points
in 11 games.
- Grizzlies rookie Rob
Hennigar has eight assists and 12 points in his last five games.
- Steelheads rookie Matt
Climie is 5-1-0 with a shutout and a goals-against average of 1.33 in
his last six starts.
Ontario Reign (34-22-4) at Victoria Salmon Kings (31-23-6) 7:05 p.m.
PT
- Victoria rookie defenseman Aaron
Brocklehurst has three points (0g-3a) in his last two games.
- Reign rookie Jeff
Zatkoff is 2-1-0 with a goals-against average of 2.68 against Victoria.
- Chris
St. Jacques leads the Salmon Kings in the last 10 games with six
assists and 10 points.
- Ontario's Dale
Reinhardt has two assists and three points in hi s last two games.
Phoenix RoadRunners (26-28-3) at Alaska Aces (36-21-3) 7:15 p.m.
AT
- Alaska defenseman Matt
Shasby has a nine-game assist streak (11a) and a nine-game point streak
(1g-11a).
- RoadRunners' Daniel
Sisca has a five-game point streak (2g-6a) and a five-game assist
streak (6a).
- Alaska's Jean-Philippe
Lamoureux is 4-1-0 with two shutouts and a goals-against of 1.41 in his
last five starts.
- Phoenix's John
McNabb has a five-game point streak (2g-4a).
Most Ties, One Season
18 - Mobile Mysticks, 2001-02
16 - Johnstown Chiefs, 2005-06
15 - Utah Grizzlies, 2008-09
South Carolina Stingrays, 2005-06
14 - seven times, most recent; Las Vegas Wranglers, 2006-07
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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.
* 401 former ECHL
players have played in NHL.
* 145 have played their first NHL game in the last four seasons.
* 46 former ECHL players have made their NHL debut this season: former
Idaho Steelheads right wing 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 (Carolina on Nov. 2), 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 Florida Everblades and ECHL
All-Star center Matt Hendricks (Colorado on Mar. 10), former Las Vegas
Wranglers goaltender Brent
Krahn (Dallas on Feb. 14), 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 Utah Grizzlies defenseman Andrew
MacDonald (New York Islanders on Feb. 28), 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 South Carolina Stingrays
and ECHL All-Star goaltender Michal
Neuvirth (Washingtons on Feb. 14), former Columbia Inferno defenseman
Phil
Oreskovic (Toronto on Mar. 9), 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 Utah Grizzlies right wing Joel
Rechlicz (New York Islanders on Mar. 4), 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 Phoenix RoadRunners goaltender
Josh
Tordjman (Phoenix on Mar. 8), 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 while former ECHL player Dan
Bylsma is the interim head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins. 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 March 11, 2009
- Royals Pull Off Comeback Win over Wheeling, 4-2 - Reading Royals
- Steelheads win in nine round shootout, 2-1 - Idaho Steelheads
- Stingrays Fall in Shootout 3-2 to Sea Wolves - South Carolina Stingrays
- Munce's spectacular powers 3-2 win over Stingrays - Mississippi Sea Wolves
- Nailers Lose to Spoiler Reading Royals 4-2. - Wheeling Nailers
- Free Jerseys this Weekend in Condorstown - Bakersfield Condors
- ECHL Transactions - ECHL
- Game Preview: Ontario Reign at Victoria Salmon Kings - Ontario Reign
- Wheeling Named ECHL Sales Staff For February - ECHL
- Wheeling Seeks Third Straight Win - Wheeling Nailers
- Tim Branham Loaned to Worcester - Reading Royals
- Goebel, Cashman, Brown Return To Wheeling - Wheeling Nailers
- Cyclones Sign Krug, Receive St. Denis From Hamilton and Deal Pair To Utah As Trade Deadline Nears - Cincinnati Cyclones
- Devils Return for Home Stretch in Trenton, New HD Scoreboard to Debut - Trenton Devils
- RoadRunners Sign Center Jim Dahl - Phoenix RoadRunners
- Hockey Double Header This Weekend at Nutter Center - Dayton Bombers
- Grizzlies Add Five Players - Utah Grizzlies
- Hendricks Becomes 401st ECHL Player To Reach NHL - ECHL
- Blades see pair re-called to AHL - Florida Everblades
- Jackson Called up to AHL Peoria - Atlanta Gladiators
- Former Blade Hendricks makes NHL debut - Florida Everblades
- ECHL Today - ECHL
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