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Johnstown's Garlock Named In Glas Co ECHL Player Of The Week

November 18, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release


PRINCETON, N.J. - Ryan Garlock of the Johnstown Chiefs is the In Glas Co ECHL Player of the Week for Nov. 10-16.

The 22 year old had three goals and seven points to help the Chiefs go 3-1-0 and move into first place in the North Division and the American Conference with 20 points and a 10-4-0 record.

Garlock had a shorthand goal and three assists in a 7-4 win against Cincinnati on Wednesday and scored a goal in a 6-2 win against Trenton on Friday. He scored a goal and had an assist in a 4-1 win at Dayton on Saturday, extending his point streak to five games (4g-5a) and his goal streak to three games (3g).

The native of Iroquois Falls, Ontario is tied for second on the team with six goals and ranks third with 12 points in nine games.

Selected in the second round (45th overall) by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft and in his third professional season, Garlock played in the ECHL All-Star Game and tied for the team lead in 2007-08 with 26 goals and finished third with 61 points in 51 games. He tied for the team lead in the Kelly Cup Playoffs with four goals, four assists and eight points in six games and also played in the AHL where he had one assist and four penalty minutes in six games for Springfield, one assist and four penalty minutes in five games for Hershey and one assist and two penalty minutes in three games for Binghamton.

Garlock played in the AHL as a rookie and had 12 points (3g-9a) and 42 penalty minutes in 71 games for San Antonio.

On behalf of Ryan Garlock, a case of pucks will be donated to a Johnstown area youth hockey organization by In Glas Co, the exclusive puck supplier of the ECHL. Since beginning its sponsorship of the award in 2000-01, In Glas Co has donated more than 20,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities.

Runners Up: Luke Erickson, Alaska (3 gp, 3g, 2a, 5 pts), Mark Derlago, Bakersfield (4 gp, 2g, 3a, 5 pts) and Chris St. Jacques, Victoria (2 gp, 3g, 2a, 5 pts).

Also Nominated: Olivier Latendresse (Cincinnati), Jarret Lukin (Dayton), Steve Yetman (Elmira), Ross Carlson (Florida), Jeff May (Las Vegas), Tim Kraus (Ontario), Tyson Marsh (Reading), Steve Pinizzotto (South Carolina), Tyler Burton (Trenton), Dennis Packard (Utah) and Bryan Ewing (Wheeling).

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Premier 'AA' Hockey League Fast Facts
- The ECHL celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2007-08 and is 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 23 teams playing 828 games in 16 states and British Columbia in 2008-09.
- The Reading Royals, the City of Reading and the Sovereign Center will host the 17th Annual ECHL All-Star Game on Jan. 21, 2009 and the 12th Annual All-Star Skills Competition on Jan. 20, 2009.
- The league officially changed its name from East Coast Hockey League to ECHL on May 19, 2003.
- Affiliations with 26 of the 30 teams in the National Hockey League marking 12th consecutive season that the league has had affiliations with at least 20 teams in the NHL.
- 368 former ECHL players have played in NHL.
- 112 have played their first NHL game in the last four seasons.
- 13 former ECHL players have made their NHL debut this season: former Wheeling Nailers and ECHL All-Star defenseman Paul Bissonnette (Pittsburgh on Oct. 4), former Greenville Grrrowl goaltender Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers (Edmonton on Oct. 17), former Gwinnett Gladiators right wing Pat Dwyer (Carolina on Nov. 2), former Columbus Cottonmouths and Tallahassee Tiger Sharks left wing Mitch Fritz (New York Islanders on Oct. 30), former Charlotte Checkers center Dwight Helminen (Carolina on Oct. 28), former Trenton Devils right wing Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (New Jersey on Oct. 22), former Charlotte Checkers defenseman Steve MacIntyre (Edmonton on Oct. 15), former Phoenix RoadRunners and Wheeling Nailers center Cam Paddock (St. Louis on Nov. 14), former Las Vegas Wranglers defenseman Adam Pardy (Calgary on Oct. 9), former Gwinnett Gladiators center Jared Ross (Philadelphia on Oct. 11), former Alaska Aces goaltender Marek Schwarz (St. Louis on Oct. 25), former Dayton Bombers and Las Vegas Wranglers defenseman Tyler Sloan (Washington on Oct. 21) and former Augusta Lynx defenseman Brett Skinner (New York Islanders on Oct. 27).
- There were 72 former ECHL players on NHL opening-day rosters.
- Twenty-six former ECHL players made their NHL debut in 2007-08, including six who played in both the ECHL and the NHL as goaltender Chris Beckford-Tseu (Alaska and St. Louis), Adam Berti (Pensacola and Chicago), Joe Jensen (Wheeling and Carolina), Dan LaCosta (Elmira and Columbus), Jonathan Quick (Reading and Los Angeles) and Danny Taylor (Reading and Los Angeles).
- Record 47 former ECHL players played their first NHL game in 2005-06.
- ECHL is represented for the eighth consecutive year on the National Hockey League championship team in 2008 by Aaron Downey of the Detroit Red Wings.
- Former ECHL coaches working as head coaches in the NHL are Bruce Boudreau of the Washington Capitals, Scott Gordon of the New York Islanders and Peter Laviolette of the Carolina Hurricanes. Boudreau, who coached Mississippi for three seasons winning the Kelly Cup championship in 1999, was named NHL Coach of the Year in 2007-08 becoming the first former ECHL coach to receive the award. Laviolette, who began his coaching career with the Wheeling Nailers, led Carolina Hurricanes to the Stanley Cup in 2006.
- There are 18 assistant coaches in the NHL who were players or coaches in the ECHL.
- There are 18 former ECHL officials scheduled to work as part of the NHL officiating team in 2008-09 with referees David Banfield, Chris Ciamaga, Ghislain Hebert, Marc Joannette, Mike Leggo, Wes McCauley, Dean Morton, Dan O'Rourke, Brian Pochmara, Kevin Pollock, Kyle Rehman, Chris Rooney, Justin St. Pierre and Ian Walsh and linesmen Steve Barton, Brian Mach, Tim Nowak and Jay Sharrers. Barton, Joannette, Leggo, McCauley, Nowak, Pollock, Rooney and Sharrers all worked the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
- ECHL has affiliations with 25 of the 29 teams in the American Hockey League and for the past 19 years there has been an ECHL player on the Calder Cup Champion.
- In the last six 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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