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Former Chiefs Stevenson Named Rbk Hockey/AHL Player Of The Week

January 30, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release


SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The American Hockey League announced that former ECHL and current Quad City Flames right wing Grant Stevenson has been named the Rbk Hockey/AHL Player of the Week for the period ending Jan. 20.

The ECHL affiliate of Quad City is the Las Vegas Wranglers. The ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 29 teams in the AHL, marking the seventh consecutive season that it has had affiliations with 20 or more teams in the AHL. The AHL has 10 former ECHL coaches who are head coaches and 14 others who are assistant coaches, and there have been more than 100 players under contract to a team in the AHL who have been on an ECHL roster this year.

The 26 year old, who signed with Calgary of the National Hockey League in July 2007, had seven points (6g-1a) in three games.

In his second professional season in 2004-05, Stevenson had a goal in two games with Johnstown and 39 points (14g-25a) in 77 games with Cleveland of the AHL. He played his first NHL game and scored his first NHL goal with San Jose on Nov. 23, 2005 in a 3-2 loss at Calgary. He finished his rookie season with 22 points (10g-12a) in 47 regular season games and also played in five Stanley Cup Playoff games for the Sharks.

Other former ECHL players nominated for the Rbk Hockey/AHL Player of the Week were Andrew Hutchinson, Zenon Konopka, Kurtis McLean, Olivier Magnan, Brandon Nolan, Geoff Platt and Danny Taylor.

Stevenson is the third ECHL player to be named the Rbk Hockey/AHL Player of the Week this season, joining Sean Curry (Dec. 16) and Jaroslav Halak (Jan. 6).

Former Gwinnett Gladiator and ECHL All-Star left wing Pascal Pelletier was the CCM/AHL Player of the Month for the month of December and former Las Vegas and Wheeling goaltender John Curry was the Rbk Edge/AHL Rookie of the Month for December. Former ECHL All-Star Martin St. Pierre was the CCM/AHL Player of the Month for November and former ECHL All-Star Jeff Glass was the Rbk X-Pulse/AHL Goaltender of the Month for November.

For the 18th year in a row there is a former ECHL player on the American Hockey League champion as Hamilton had a record 12 players with ECHL experience on its roster.

In both 2005-06 and 2006-07, more than 225 players played in both the ECHL and the AHL and there were over 800 call ups, involving over 500 players, from the ECHL to the AHL. From 2002-03 to 2006-07, the ECHL had over 2,000 call ups, involving more than 1,000 players, which is more than the total call ups for all other professional leagues combined during that time period.

The AHL Player of the Week award was won 14 times by a former ECHL player in 2006-07 while a former ECHL goaltender was named the AHL Goaltender of the Month the last five months of the season. Six former ECHL players were on the All-AHL Teams in 2006-07 including former Charlotte goaltender Jason LaBarbera, who was named Goaltender of the Year, and former Mississippi defenseman Sheldon Brookbank, who was selected as Defenseman of the Year, while former ECHL goaltender Jaroslav Halak was named to the AHL All-Rookie team.

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