Former ECHL Goaltender Legace, Left Wing Fedotenko Named NHL's Three Stars

Published on February 20, 2008 under ECHL (ECHL) News Release

NEW YORK - The National Hockey League announced that former ECHL and current St. Louis Blues goaltender Manny Legace has been selected as the 'First Star' and that former ECHL and current New York Islanders left wing Ruslan Fedotenko has been chosen as the 'Second Star' in the NHL's "Three Stars" for the week ending Feb. 7.

Each Monday, the NHL recognizes three players who delivered the top performances over the past week.

Legace was 3-0-1 with a goals-against average of 1.49 and a save percentage of .954 while Fedotenko had two game-winning goals and five points (4g-1a) in three games.

The Alaska Aces are the ECHL affiliate of the Blues while the Utah Grizzlies are the ECHL affiliate of the Islanders.

Legace became the fifth former ECHL player to hoist the Stanley Cup when Detroit won the NHL championship in 2002 while Fedotenko had his name engraved in 2004 with Tampa Bay along with former ECHL players Nolan Pratt and Andre Roy as well as radio announcer Dave Mishkin and equipment manager Dana Heinze.

The ECHL has been represented on the last seven Stanley Cup championship teams including 2007 with Anaheim assistant coach Dave Farrish, players Francois Beauchemin and George Parros and broadcasters John Ahlers and Steve Carroll.

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Celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2007-08, the ECHL is the Premier 'AA' Hockey League and 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 25 teams playing 900 games in 17 states and British Columbia in 2007-08.

The league officially changed its name to ECHL on May 19, 2003.

The ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 29 teams in the American Hockey League in 2007-08 and for the past 17 years there has been an ECHL player on the Calder Cup champion.

In each of the last two seasons there have been more than 225 players who have played in both the ECHL and the AHL and there were over 800 call-ups involving more than 500 players.

In the last five 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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