
ECHL Today
March 21, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
Cincinnati Cyclones (35-24-5) at Trenton Devils (34-24-6) 7 p.m.
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- Trenton's Gerald
Coleman is second in the league with 25 wins and is third with a
goals-against average of 2.39.
- Cyclones have won the last two meetings and are 3-0-0 at Trenton and
4-1-0 overall in season series with Devils.
- Devils' Jim
Henkel has eight assists and 13 points in his last 10 games.
- Rookie Mark
Van Guilder leads the Cyclones against Trenton with four assists and
seven points in five games.
Mississippi Sea Wolves (27-30-7) at South Carolina Stingrays
(36-22-6) 7:05 p.m. ET
- South Carolina's Maxime
Lacroix has a three-game point streak (2g-4a) and a three-game assist
streak (4a).
- Sea Wolves' Ryan
Cruthers is fifth among ECHL rookies with 62 points (28g-34a) in 58
games.
- Stingrays rookie defenseman Josh
Godfrey has a three-game point streak (1g-4a).
- Mississippi is 15-0-3 when leading after two periods.
Gwinnett Gladiators (28-29-6) at Dayton Bombers (29-30-5) 7:30 p.m.
ET
- Bombers' David
Shantz is 2-1-0 with a shootout win and a save percentage of .921 in
his last three starts.
- Gladiators rookie Matt
Siddall has five goals and six points in his last four games.
- Dayton's Justin
Chwedoruk has four points (2g-2a) in his last four games.
- Gwinnett's Tom
Zanoski has five assists and six points in his last six games.
Johnstown Chiefs (35-25-4) at Elmira Jackals (34-24-6) 7:35 p.m.
PT
- Jackals' Steve
Yetman has a two-game goal streak (2g) and seven points (4g-3a) in his
last seven games.
- Johnstown rookie Andrew
Sarauer has five assists and seven points in his last five games.
- Elmira's Derek
Couture has four assists and seven points in his last four games.
- Chiefs' Ian
Keserich is 3-3-1 with a goals-against average of 2.42 against Elmira.
Reading Royals (21-39-4) at Wheeling Nailers (33-23-8) 7:35 p.m.
PT
- Nailers' David
Brown is 2-0-0 with a shootout win in his last two starts.
- Royals' Michael
Ouzas is 3-1-0 with a goals-against average of 2.91 against Wheeling.
- Wheeling rookie Andrew
Lord has a three-game point streak (2g-3a) and a three-game assist
streak (3a).
- David
Nimmo (4g-5a) and Tyler
Doig (2g-7a) lead the Royals against Wheeling with nine points each.
Phoenix RoadRunners (27-32-5) at Ontario Reign (35-26-5) 7 p.m.
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- Reign are 7-2-0 overall and 2-2-0 at home against Phoenix.
- RoadRunners' Daniel
Sisca has 13 points (6g-7a) in his last 12 games.
- Ontario rookie Tim
Kraus has eight assists and 11 points in his last 10 games.
- Phoenix rookie David
Rutherford has three points (2g-1a) in his last four games.
Idaho Steelheads (37-22-4) at Victoria Salmon Kings (35-24-7) 7:05
p.m. PT
- Salmon Kings rookie Brady
Leavold has a three-game goal streak (4g) and a three-game point streak
(4g-0a).
- Idaho's Matt
Climie (2.44) and Rejean
Beauchemin (2.69) are fourth and seventh in goals-against average.
- Victoria's Todd
Ford is tied for third in the league with four shutouts and is fifth
with a 2.54 goals-against average.
- Steelheads are 6-2-0 in overtime and 6-2-0 in shootouts and 22-8-4 in
one-goal games.
Alaska Aces (41-22-3) at Las Vegas Wranglers (31-26-8) 7:30 p.m.
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- Wranglers' Justin
Taylor has five points (3g-2a) in his last four games and 12 points
(4g-8a) in his last 10 games.
- Alaska rookie Jean-Philippe
Lamoureux is 4-1-0 with a goals-against average of 2.17 against Las
Vegas.
- Las Vegas' Glenn
Fisher is 4-0-0 with two shutouts and a goals-against average of 0.75
in his last four starts.
- Colin
Hemingway leads the Aces against Las Vegas with nine assists and 12
points in seven games.
Bakersfield Condors (29-30-7) at Stockton Thunder (30-30-5) 7:30 p.m.
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- Thunder rookie Ryan
Huddy has 11 assists and 15 points in his last 10 games.
- Dave
Bonk leads the Condors against Stockton with seven assists and 12
points in six games.
- Stockton rookie James
Bates has seven assists and 10 points in his last 10 games.
- Condors have won the last four meetings and are 3-0-0 at Stockton and
5-1-0 overall in season series.
Kelly Cup Playoff Update
Ontario can clinch a berth in the Kelly Cup Playoffs on Saturday with a win
OR with an overtime shootout loss AND a win by Stockton
OR with a win in regulation by Stockton
Florida can clinch the South Division and the American Conference on
Saturday with a win by Mississippi
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
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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 21, 2009
- Hay's four points lead the way as Idaho routs Victoria - Idaho Steelheads
- Aces Edge Wranglers 3-1 - Las Vegas Wranglers
- Overtime thriller puts Condors in 3rd place - Bakersfield Condors
- Idaho scores three goals in second and third periods on way to 7-1 victory - Victoria Salmon Kings
- RoadRunners Rally Past Reign 4-2 - Phoenix RoadRunners
- Hay's four points lead the way as Idaho routs Victoria - Idaho Steelheads
- Royals Fall in Shootout In Wheeling, 5-4 - Reading Royals
- Nailers come back to defeat Royals in OT - Wheeling Nailers
- Elmira Haunted by 16 Chief Power Plays - Elmira Jackals
- Chiefs chop down Elmira - Johnstown Chiefs
- Bombers Lose In OT 5-4 Against Gwinnett - Dayton Bombers
- Berge's Goal Lifts Stingrays Over Sea Wolves 3-2 in Overtime - South Carolina Stingrays
- Gladiators Post 5-4 Win over Bombers - Atlanta Gladiators
- Sea Wolves battle back but fall in OT - Mississippi Sea Wolves
- Devils Lose Again on Late Goal by the Cyclones, 2-1 - Trenton Devils
- Cyclones Use The Numbers to Claim 2-1 Win at Trenton - Cincinnati Cyclones
- Royals Sign Forward Eric Giosa - Reading Royals
- Fox Called Up to AHL Chicago - Atlanta Gladiators
- Relay At The Rink Continues - Wheeling Nailers
- ECHL Transactions - ECHL
- Game Preview: Ontario Reign Vs Phoenix - Ontario Reign
- Game Preview: Stockton Thunder Vs. Bakersfield Condors - Stockton Thunder
- Game Preview: Rays Honor Zucker Tonight as Team Hosts Mississippi - South Carolina Stingrays
- Bombers In Action at Historic Hobart Arena Tonight and Tomorrow Evening - Dayton Bombers
- ECHL Today - ECHL
- Reign Drop Match To Wranglers, 2-5 - Ontario Reign
- Aces Slip Past RoadRunners 4-3 In A Shootout - Phoenix RoadRunners
- Salmon Kings Shutout Steelheads - Victoria Salmon Kings
- Alaska Strengthens Hold on First Place - Alaska Aces
- Wranglers Top Reign 5-2 - Las Vegas Wranglers
- Condors keep rolling, 4-1 over Utah - Bakersfield Condors
- Road Weary Grizzlies Fall 4-1 In Bakersfield - Utah Grizzlies
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