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Gwinnett's Campbell Wins ECHL Sportsmanship Award

April 5, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release


PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL on Saturday announced that Gwinnett Gladiators forward Jeff Campbell is the recipient of the Sportsmanship Award for 2007-08 as determined in a vote of ECHL coaches.

The award is presented annually to the player who is judged to have exhibited the best sportsmanship combined with a high standard of playing ability.

David Desharnais of Cincinnati finished second while Ash Goldie of Victoria and Oren Eizenman of Fresno tied for third and Tim Konsorada of Bakersfield was fifth.

Campbell, who was named First Team All-ECHL on Friday, has 38 penalty minutes while ranking second in the ECHL with 65 assists and 90 points in 64 games. He is also second in power-play assists with 34 and power-play points with 42. He was named ECHL Most Valuable Player and First Team All-ECHL in 2005-06 and was named to the ECHL All-Rookie Team in 2004-05. Campbell had a 13-game assist streak (20 assists) from Nov. 30-Dec. 28, 2007 which at the time was the longest streak since Dany Bousquet of Pee Dee had an assist in 12 games in a row from Mar. 3-29, 2002. He has also played in the AHL where he has three points (2g-1a) and two penalty minutes in eight games with Norfolk.

The ECHL will announce the winner of the Rookie of the Year award on Sunday.

ECHL Sportsmanship Award Winners
2007-08 Jeff Campbell, Gwinnett Gladiators
2006-07 Derek Nesbitt, Idaho Steelheads
2005-06 Steve Saviano, Florida Everblades
2004-05 Kris Goodjohn, Gwinnett Gladiators
2003-04 Mark Pederson, San Diego Gulls
2002-03 Rejean Stringer, Columbia Inferno
2001-02 Ben Stafford, Trenton Titans
2000-01 Jamie Ling, Dayton Bombers
1999-00 Jamie Ling, Dayton Bombers
1998-99 Jamie Ling, Dayton Bombers
1997-98 Cal Ingraham, Tallahassee Tiger Sharks
1996-97 Mike Ross, South Carolina Stingrays

ECHL
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 30 teams in the NHL in 2007-08, marking the 11th consecutive season that the league has had affiliations with at least 20 teams in the NHL.

There have been 353 former ECHL players who have gone on to play in the NHL after playing in the ECHL, including 97 in the last three seasons. There have been 208 former ECHL players who have played their first game in the NHL in the past seven seasons.

There are 15 coaches in the NHL who have ECHL experience including former Wheeling coach Peter Laviolette, who is head coach of the Carolina Hurricanes, and former Mississippi coach Bruce Boudreau, who is head coach of the Washington Capitals.

The ECHL is represented for the seventh consecutive year on the National Hockey League championship team in 2007 with Anaheim assistant coach Dave Farrish, players Francois Beauchemin and George Parros and broadcasters John Ahlers and Steve Carroll.

The ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 29 teams in the American Hockey League in 2007-08 and for the past 18 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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