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March 13, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
Gwinnett Gladiators (26-26-6) at South Carolina Stingrays
(33-22-6) 7:05 p.m. ET
- Travis
Morin leads the Stingrays against Gwinnett with 10 assists and 15
points in 10 games.
- Jordan
Fox leads the Gladiators against South Carolina with eight assists and
12 points in nine games.
- South Carolina's Jeff
Corey has four goals and six points in his last five games.
- Gladiators' Adam
Berti has eight assists and 11 points in his last 11 games.
Cincinnati Cyclones (33-22-5) at Johnstown Chiefs (33-24-3) 7:05 p.m.
ET
- Johnstown rookie Blair
Yaworski has a four-game point streak (4g-1a) and a three-game goal
streak (4g).
- Cyclones have won the last three meetings and are 4-2-1 in the season
series with Johnstown.
- Chiefs have won 20 home games in back-to-back seasons for the first time
since 2000-01 and 2001-02.
- Cincinnati's Barret
Ehgoetz has a three-game point streak (2g-3a) and a two-game goal
streak (2g).
Reading Royals (21-36-4) at Trenton Devils (31-22-6) 7:30 p.m.
ET
- Trenton's Gerald
Coleman is 3-0-1 with a goals-against average of 2.18 against Reading.
- Royals' Chris
Stevens has five assists and eight points in his last five games.
- Devils defenseman Ryan
Gunderson has a four-game point streak (2g-3a).
- Reading's David
Nimmo has four points (2g-2a) in his last three games.
Elmira Jackals (31-24-5) at Dayton Bombers (28-28-5) 7:30 p.m.
ET
- Rookie Nino
Musitelli leads the Bombers against Elmira with six goals and 10 points
in seven games.
- Jackals' Paul
McIlveen has a 10-game point streak (6g-11a) and a three-game goal
streak (3g).
- Dayton's Christian
Gaudet has a four-game point streak (1g-5a) and a four-game assist
streak (5a).
- Elmira's Steve
Yetman has a three-game point streak (2g-3a) and 13 points (6g-7a) in
his last 10 games.
Florida Everblades (40-16-3) at Mississippi Sea Wolves (26-28-7) 7
p.m. CT
- Sea Wolves' Mike
Berry has five points (1g-4a) in his last six games.
- Florida rookie David
Leggio is 6-0-0 with a shutout and a goals-against average of 1.19
against Mississippi.
- Mississippi's Ryan
Munce leads the league with 1,536 saves and is tied for third with 22
wins.
- Everblades have won the last 12 meetings and are 8-0-0 in season series
and 31-7-1 all-time against Mississippi.
Utah Grizzlies (23-22-16) at Bakersfield Condors (26-29-7) 7 p.m.
PT
- Condors' Dave
Bonk (5g-18a) and Mark
Derlago (8g-15a) have combined for 46 points in the last 10 games.
- Grizzlies rookie Rob
Hennigar has eight assists and 12 points in his last five games.
- Condors rookie defenseman Andrew
Thomas has a three-game point streak (0g-4a).
- Utah's Mike
Walsh has a two-game point streak (0g-3a) and five points (1g-4a) in
his last five games.
Ontario Reign (34-23-4) at Victoria Salmon Kings (32-23-6) 7:05 p.m.
PT
- Salmon Kings rookie Curtis
Billsten had career bests with four assists and four points in 9-4 win
on Wednesday.
- Ontario rookie Tim
Kraus has six points (3g-3a) in his last five games.
- Victoria defenseman Aaron
Brocklehurst has a three-game point streak (1g-5a) and a three-game
assist streak (5a).
- Reign rookie Bud
Holloway has a three-game point streak (2g-3a) and a two-game goal
streak (2g).
Idaho Steelheads (36-18-4) at Las Vegas Wranglers (27-26-8) 7:30 p.m.
PT
- Las Vegas is fourth in the ECHL on the penalty kill with 86.0 percent
(314-for-365).
- Idaho's Bryan
McGregor has four points (2g-2a) in his last two games and 16 points
(7g-9a) in his last 12 games.
- Wranglers defenseman Sean
Owens has four assists and five points in his last six games.
- Idaho rookie Matt
Climie is 4-0-0 with a goals-against average of 1.22 in his last four
starts.
Phoenix RoadRunners (26-29-3) at Alaska Aces (37-21-3) 7:15 p.m.
AT
- Alaska's Lance
Galbraith has a four-game point streak (3g-4a) and 15 points (7g-8a) in
his last 10 games.
- Phoenix rookie defenseman Jim
Jorgensen has five points (2g-3a) in his last six games.
- Alaska's Brett
Hemingway has five assists and six points in his last three games.
- RoadRunners' Mark
O'Leary has five goals and seven points in his last seven games.
ECHL Record Book Look
Most Shutouts By Goaltender, Season
7 - Jean-Philippe Lamoureux, Alaska, 2008-09
- Frederic Cloutier, Louisiana, 2001-02
- David Brumby, Jackson, 1999-2000
- Maxime Gingras, Richmond, 1998-99
6 - Alfie Michaud, Peoria, 2004-05
- Matthew Yeats, Texas, 2006-07
Most Shutouts, One Season
11 - Wheeling Nailers, 2003-04
10 - Wheeling Nailers, 2004-05
- Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies, 2003-04
- Louisiana IceGators, 2001-02
9 - four times, most recent; Alaska Aces, 2008-09
Most Ties, One Season
18 - Mobile Mysticks, 2001-02
16 - Utah Grizzlies, 2008-09
Johnstown Chiefs, 2005-06
15 - South Carolina Stingrays, 2005-06
14 - seven times, most recent; Las Vegas Wranglers, 2006-07
Kelly Cup Playoff Update
Idaho can clinch a berth in the Kelly Cup Playoffs on Friday with a win
AND a win by Utah
OR with an overtime/shootout loss AND a win in regulation by
Utah
Alaska can clinch a berth in the Kelly Cup Playoffs on Friday with a win
ORwith an overtime/shootout loss AND a win by Utah
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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.
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ECHL Stories from March 13, 2009
- Blades fall in overtime to Sea Wolves, 3-2 - Florida Everblades
- Chiefs storm past Cyclones - Johnstown Chiefs
- Melanson the hero as Sea Wolves beat Everblades - Mississippi Sea Wolves
- Bombers Shut Out By Elmira - Dayton Bombers
- Reimer Solid In First Stingray Start, Leads Rays to 6-4 Win Over Gladiators - South Carolina Stingrays
- Teslak Shuts Out Bombers 3-0 - Elmira Jackals
- Devils Control Pace in Win Over Royals, 5-3 - Trenton Devils
- Johnstown Takes 5-2 Verdict From Cincinnati - Cincinnati Cyclones
- Gladiators fall to Stingrays, 6-4 - Atlanta Gladiators
- Wranglers Game Day - Las Vegas Wranglers
- RoadRunners Acquire Rutherford, Corsi and Deeth From Charlotte - Phoenix RoadRunners
- RoadRunners Acquire Steve Ward From Reading - Reading Royals
- Checkers Make Trade For All-Star Blueliner Ward - Charlotte Checkers
- Tim Branham Returned From Worcester - Reading Royals
- Gladiators Sign Gentile - Atlanta Gladiators
- Game Preview: Ontario Reign At Victoria Salmon Kings - Ontario Reign
- ECHL Transactions - ECHL
- RoadRunners Acquire Chase Trull From Mississippi - Phoenix RoadRunners
- Zaba Named Reebok X-Pulse/AHL Goaltender Of The Month - ECHL
- Tip-A-Condor raises nearly $17,000 - Bakersfield Condors
- Panthers' Vokoun Named MeiGray Group Alumnus Of The Month - ECHL
- Nailers Game Used Jersey Auction Going On Now - Wheeling Nailers
- Bakersfield Condors vs. Utah Grizzlies - Bakersfield Condors
- Checkers Sign Michigan State Leading Scorer Schepke - Charlotte Checkers
- Game Preview: Rays Host Gwinnett Tonight - South Carolina Stingrays
- Hart Returns From Bridgeport; Mole, Sixsmith Departs - Utah Grizzlies
- Stingrays Add Goalie Reimer - South Carolina Stingrays
- James Reimer Recalled to Toronto - Reading Royals
- Roy re-assigned to Blades from Albany - Florida Everblades
- Tip-A-Grizz Monday At Ruby Tuesday - Utah Grizzlies
- Bombers in Action This Weekend - Dayton Bombers
- ECHL Today - ECHL
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