Former Wrangler Krahn Named Reebok/AHL Goaltender Of The Month
Published on December 10, 2009 under ECHL (ECHL) News Release
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The American Hockey League announced that former Las Vegas Wranglers and current Texas Stars goaltender Brent Krahn has been named the Reebok/AHL Goaltender of the Month for November.
The Idaho Steelheads are the ECHL affiliate of the Stars of the AHL and the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League.
Krahn was 5-1-0, with two shutouts, a goals-against average of 1.16 and a save percentage of.967 in six appearances for Texas in November. He is 10-2-0 with three shutouts and leads the league with a goals-against average of 1.41 and a save percentage of.958.
Selected in the first round (ninth overall) by Calgary in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, the 27 year old began 2008-09 in Las Vegas and appeared in six games before being reassigned to Chicago of the AHL. He was 7-5-2 with a goals-against average of 2.61 and a save percentage of.925 in 14 games with Las Vegas as a rookie in 2003-04.
Other former ECHL players nominated for the award were Justin Peters, Andy Chiodo, John Curry, Cedrick Desjardins, Joe Fallon, Riku Helenius, Anton Khudobin, Jean-Philippe Lamoureux, Peter Mannino, Mike McKenna, Michal Neuvirth, Josh Tordjman and James Reimer.
The ECHL has had affiliations with 20 or more teams in the AHL the last eight years and in the past seven seasons there have been more ECHL players called up to the AHL than all other professional leagues combined.
Seven times in the last nine years the winner of the AHL Coach of the Year award has been a former ECHL coach including 2006-08 with Scott Gordon, Mike Haviland and Kevin Dineen. Former ECHL coaches won the award four consecutive years from 2001-04 with Don Granato, Bruce Cassidy, Geoff Ward and Claude Noel. The first former ECHL coach to win the award was Peter Laviolette in 1999.
Nine former ECHL players were named Reebok /AHL Player of the Week in 2008-09 and 10 received the honor in 2007-08.
The ECHL has been represented on the last 20 AHL champions including 2009 when 15 of the 26 players who played for Hershey played in the Premier 'AA' Hockey League. It is the most former ECHL players on an AHL champion surpassing the 14 players for Chicago in 2008. There have been 41 former ECHL players on the last three AHL winners and 59 former ECHL players on the last five champions. The head coach of the Bears, who won their league-record 10th title, was former ECHL player and coach Bob Woods, who is now an assistant coach with the Washington Capitals of the NHL, and the assistant coach was former ECHL assistant Mark French, who is now the head coach of Hershey.
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