Melanson scores, but American Conferen ce falls in ECHL All-Star Game
Published on January 24, 2008 under ECHL (ECHL)
Florida Everblades News Release
STOCKTON, Calif. - Led by Most Valuable Player Ash Goldie of Victoria, who set an ECHL All-Star Game record with six points, the National Conference beat the American Conference 10-7 in front of 7,455 fans at Stockton Arena on Wednesday.
Everblades forward Mathieu Melanson chipped in a second period goal and added a first period assist for the American Conference, while Everblades goaltender Justin Peters back-stopped the American Conference sqaud in the third period and stopped 8 of 11 shots.
Goldie, who scored a goal in each period and had three assists, broke the record of five points held by Andy MacIntyre of the Canada All-Stars, who had four goals and an assist on Jan. 20, 1998 at Lafayette, La.
Goldie scored his third goal 22 seconds into the third period to set the All-Star record for fastest goal at the beginning of a period, breaking the mark of 23 seconds by Luke Curtin of the National All-Stars on Jan. 25, 2006 at Fresno, Calif.
Peter Ferraro of Las Vegas (2g-3a) and Greg Rallo of Idaho (1g-4a) each had five points while Fresno's Igor Gongalsky (0g-2a) and Oren Eizenman (2g-0a) and Utah's Justin Bourne (0g-2a) all had two points.
Goldie scored at 16:55 of the second period and Ferraro scored 16 seconds later at 17:11 to set the All-Star record for fastest two goals by one team, breaking the mark of 17 seconds by Mike Lavenders and MacIntyre of Canada, who scored at 5:58 of the third and 6:15 of the third, respectively, in 1998.
Brett Hemingway of Reading led the American Conference with three points (1g-2a) while Melanson (1g, 1a), Jon D'Aversa of Wheeling (2g-0a), Tomas Kudelka of Elmira (0g-2a) and Ryan Gunderson of Trenton (0g-2a) each had two points.
The 10 goals is the most scored by a team since the Canada All-Stars set the record with 11 goals on Jan. 20, 1998 at Lafayette, La. and it ties the record for second-most goals set by the North All-Stars on Jan. 23, 1996 at Tallahassee, Fla.
The 17 goals by both teams is the most scored since 1998 when the teams combined for 18 goals and ties the record for second-most goals set by the teams in 1996. The two teams combined for four goals in the third period, tying the record for third-most goals by both teams in a period.
MacMurchy added an assist for the hosting Thunder.
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