ECHL's Greenville Grrrowl Send Second Player To NHL In As Many Days
March 23, 2002 - ECHL (ECHL)
Greenville Grrrowl News Release
D Sellars scheduled to join Atlanta Thrashers for tonight's game in Ottawa
GREENVILLE, SC â The East Coast Hockey League's Greenville Grrrowl have announced the recall of defenseman Luke Sellars to the National Hockey League's Atlanta Thrashers. Sellars becomes the second Grrrowl player in as many days to be recalled by the Thrashers joining goaltender Scott Fankhouser who played three games in Greenville in November and was recalled by Atlanta yesterday. The Thrashers will visit the Ottawa Senators tonight at 7 p.m.
The Grrrowl have also announced the activation of left wing Colin Pepperall off the injured reserve.
Sellars, 21, was Atlanta's second choice, 30th overall, in the 1999 NHL draft. He will make his NHL debut in the city where he played junior hockey with the Ontario Hockey League's Ottawa 67's from 1998 through 2001. Sellars was assigned to the Grrrowl from the American Hockey League's Chicago Wolves; where he posted two goals, four assists, six points and 87 penalty minutes in 31 games; in February. He has recorded two goals, three assists, five points, 57 penalty minutes and a +4 in 31 games with the Grrrowl.
Pepperall returns from a two-week stint on the I.R. He has 19 goals, 31 assists, 50 points, 113 penalty minutes and a +9 in 60 games with the Grrrowl this season.
The Grrrowl are currently in first place in the ECHL's Southeast Division with 82 points and a 38-22-6 record. They have six regular-season games remaining including two this weekend. The Grrrowl will host the Augusta Lynx tonight at 7:05 p.m. and visit the Charlotte Checkers Sunday at 6 p.m.
The first one-thousand fans who enter tonight's game will receive a free puck courtesy of Bell South, the Real Yellow Pages, WMYI-FM 102.5 and Charter Communications. In addition, if the Grrrowl beat Augusta, fans can redeem their ticket stub from the game at the BI-LO Center box office for a ticket of equal or lesser value to this coming Tuesday's showdown with the second-place Pee Dee Pride.
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