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Maple Leafs Announce Year End Award Winners

April 19, 2005 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Toronto Marlies News Release


The St. John's Maple Leafs announced today the club's Year End Award Winners for the 2004-05 season. This year's edition of the St. John's Maple Leafs Year End Awards had 9 players sharing 11 separate awards.

Here are the winners for the 2004-05 season as selected by the St. John's Maple Leafs with the help of their Fans and the Local Media:

OVERALL MOLSON CUP WINNER: Kyle Wellwood
PEPSI MOST VALUABLE PLAYER: Kyle Wellwood
NTV/OZFM LEADING SCORER: David Ling
THE TELEGRAM BEST DEFENCEMAN Marc Moro
ROGERS CABLE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Ian White
ALIANT SPORTSMANSHIP & DEDICATION: Ben Ondrus
MOLSON CANADIAN PLUS/MINUS: Ian White
MOLSON CUP RUNNER-UP: Mikael Tellqvist
BROOKFIELD DAIRY GROUP COMMUNITY SERVICE: Regan Kelly, Brendan Bell
ALIANT FAN CHOICE: David Ling
GRUB CLUB HARDEST WORKING PLAYER: Clarke Wilm


LEAF NOTES

• St. John's finished the season in 2nd place in the North Division with a 46-28-1-5 record (98PTS). The 98PTS is the second best total in franchise history. These totals ranked the club 4th in the conference and 9th overall.
• The team finished the season on a 3 game winning streak and a 6-2-0-1 record in April. The team had a winning record in 5 of 7 months this year.
• The Maple Leafs set a team record for wins in a season with 46. As well, the Maple Leafs set a franchise record for most wins at home in a season with 28.
• This is the 12th time in 14 seasons that the team has recorded 30 or more wins and 3rd time the team has recorded 40 or more wins.
• The club finished with the 7th best powerplay in the AHL (17.3%) and was the 5th highest scoring team in the League with 244 goals (3.05 goals per game).
• The Maple Leafs tied two franchise records on December 30, 2004 in a 5-3 win over Syracuse. The team tied records for allowing the most shots on net for a game (66) and in one period (29).
• The club's longest winning streak was 6 games from March 2 to March 15.
• Right-winger David Ling led the Maple Leafs in scoring with 88 points (28G,60A), setting career highs in points and assists.
• Center Kyle Wellwood led the team in scoring with 38 goals.
• Maple Leafs center Kyle Wellwood made his second straight appearance at an AHL All-Star Game on February 14, 2005 in Manchester, NH.
• Rookie Ian White led all Maple Leafs with a +12 rating.
• Goaltender Mikael Tellqvist set a career high with 24 wins in a season. It was the first time since 2000-01 that a Maple Leafs goaltender has won 20 games in a season. Tellqvist finished the season 2nd in All-Time Franchise Wins with 58.
• Center Kyle Wellwood set a franchise record with five goals in a single game October 30, 2004 vs Cleveland.
• Goaltender Jean Sebastien Aubin set a franchise record with 66 saves in a single game. The Maple Leafs defeated the Syracuse Crunch December 30, 2004 by a score of 5-3.
• The St. John's Maple Leafs had 9 players with 15 or more goals this season (Wellwood-38, Ling-28, Stajan-23, Kwiatkowski-20, Druken-18, Barrett-17, Leeb-16, Perrott-16, Williams-16) and 13 players with 20 or more points in a season.
• The Maple Leafs had eight players with 100 or more penalty minutes in a season (Perrott-276, Moro-202, MacDonald-152, Ling-152, Wilm-145, Ondrus-137, Harrison-108, Newbury-103).

• A number of Maple Leafs are among the AHL League Leaders:
Points: David Ling (3rd-88), Kyle Wellwood (4th -87)
Goals: Wellwood (4th-38)
Assists: Ling (4th-60)
Shooting %: Kyle Wellwood (3rd-20.7%)
Shootout Goals: David Ling (1st-10)
Defencemen Scoring: Joel Kwiatkowski (10th-45)
Defencemen Goals: Joel Kwiatkowski (1st-20)
Rookie Scoring: Jeremy Williams (13th-36)
Rookie Goals: Jeremey Williams (8th-16)

• Seven St. John's Maple Leaf players made their debuts this season and recorded either their first professional goal or first goal as a Maple Leaf.

First Pro Goal:
Jeremy Williams October 23, 2004 - 4-1 Win @ Syracuse
Matt Hubbauer November 6, 2004 - 4-3 vs Edmonton
Ian White December 30, 2004 - 5-3 vs Syracuse
Colin Murphy April 1, 2005 - 2-1 @ Hamilton

First Goal as a Maple Leaf:
Brett Engelhardt February 4, 2005 - 3-2 Win vs Hamilton
Tyler Beechey March 4, 2005 – 4-3 Win vs Hershey
Dominic D'Amour March 11, 2005 - 3-2 Win @ Edmonton


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