
Linesburgh Receives ECHL Outstanding Media Award
July 19, 2007 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL announced that Scott Linesburgh of
The Stockton Record is the 2006-07 recipient of the ECHL
Outstanding Media Award.
The award is determined in a vote of league media members, media relations
directors and broadcasters.
Linesburgh, who grew up in Wantagh, Long Island, N.Y. rooting for the New
York Islanders, has been the beat writer for the Thunder since the team
moved to Stockton from Atlantic City in 2005. The 44 year old has been a
member of The Stockton
Record writing staff for 19 years and has covered a variety of high
school, college and professional sports.
"It's a nice honor to be chosen for this award by my journalistic peers
and the league's media relation directors, and I want to thank the staff at
The Record for their support," said Linesburgh, who lives in Stockton with
his wife, Julie, and their 11-year-old son, Steven. "The arrival of the
Thunder has been a significant local story for our publication and we've
tried our best to serve the community."
"The support for the Stockton Thunder by fans, the business community and
the local media has been outstanding during the ECHL's first two seasons in
Stockton," said ECHL Commissioner Brian McKenna. "This has happened through
the hard work and dedication of many people, including Scott Linesburgh. He
has taken the time to research the team and the league to do an in-depth
job for the fans of Stockton and the surrounding area. He is a very worthy
winner of this award."
ECHL Outstanding Media Award Winners
Year Recipient Media Outlet
2006-07 Scott Linesburgh The Stockton
Record
2005-06 Matt Nevala The Anchorage Daily News
2004-05 Mike Mastovich The Tribune-Democrat
2003-04 Len Bardsley The Times of Trenton
2002-03 Dave Eminian Peoria Journal Star
ECHL
The league officially changed its name to ECHL on May 19, 2003.
ECHL began in 1988-89 with five teams in three states and has grown to be a
coast-to-coast league that will have 25 teams playing in 17 states and
British Columbia in 2007-08, including the Mississippi (Biloxi) Sea Wolves,
who return after missing two seasons in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Opening Day for the 20th Anniversary Season will be Oct. 18 when the
Johnstown Chiefs host the Wheeling Nailers at Cambria County War Memorial.
The game is a rematch of Game 7 from the first-ever ECHL Finals played in
front of a standing-room-only crowd at Cambria County War Memorial. The two
teams will wear throwback jerseys for the Opening Day game that begins at
7:30 p.m. ET and will be broadcast worldwide on B2 Networks, the
"Official Broadband Broadcast Provider of the ECHL". The remaining teams
will open their seasons the weekend of Oct. 19-21.
The Stockton Thunder and the City of Stockton will host the 16th Annual
ECHL All-Star Game at Stockton Arena on Jan. 23, 2008 and the 11th Annual
ECHL All-Star Skills Competition on Jan. 22, 2008.
There have been
329 former ECHL players who have gone on to play in the NHL after
playing in the ECHL, including a record 47 in 2005-06 and 26 in 2006-07.
There have been 184 former ECHL players who have played their first game in
the NHL in the past five seasons and 107 former ECHL players have skated in
the NHL this season. More than 100 players under contract to NHL teams have
played in the ECHL this season. The ECHL has affiliations with 23 of the 30
teams in the National Hockey League, marking the 11th consecutive season
that the league has had affiliations with at least 20 teams in the NHL.
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 22 of the 29 teams in the American Hockey
League in 2006-07 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.
The ECHL and its member teams donated more than $2.8 million to charitable
organizations and relief funds in 2006-07, including over $1.2 million in
monetary donations.
Further information on the ECHL is available from its website at ECHL.com.
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