Matt White Named Sher-Wood Hockey ECHL Player of the Week
April 7, 2015 - ECHL (ECHL)
Ontario Reign News Release
Ontario Reign Forward Matt White
(Ontario Reign)
ONTARIO, Calif. - The Ontario Reign, four-time ECHL Pacific Division Champions and proud ECHL affiliate of the NHL's 2014 Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings and Winnipeg Jets, are proud to announce that forward Matt White has been named the Sher-Wood Hockey ECHL Player of the Week for Mar. 30-Apr. 5.
White scored five goals and assisted on two others for seven points in three games last week.
The 25-year-old had a goal and an assist in an 8-3 win against Bakersfield on Wednesday and tallied four goals and added an assist in a 7-4 victory over Stockton on Saturday.
A native of Whittier, Calif., White has 60 points (28g-32a) in 65 games with the Reign this season and ranks third in the ECHL in plus-minus with a +40 rating. He began the season in Austria with Ljubljana Olimpija HK where he had six points (2g-4a) in 11 games. White is the third Reign player to receive Player of the Week honors this season; David Rutherford earned the distinction for the week of Mar. 9-15, while Geoff Walker received the honor while with the Reign for the week of Dec. 29-Jan. 4.
White has 117 points (50g-67a) in 136 career games with Ontario.
Prior to turning pro, he had 99 points (47g-52a) in 114 career games at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
On behalf of Matt White, a case of pucks will be donated to an Ontario youth hockey organization by Sher-Wood Hockey, the exclusive puck supplier of the ECHL. Since beginning its sponsorship of the award in 2000-01, Sher-Wood Hockey has donated more than 31,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities.
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