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Rapid City's Andrew Smale Named Oakley CHL Player of the Week

March 12, 2012 - Central Hockey League (CHL) News Release


GLENDALE, AZ (March 12, 2012) -The Central Hockey League announced today that Rapid City's Andrew Smale has been named the Oakley Central Hockey League Player of the Week for the period ending March 11, 2012.

In recognition of his achievement, Smale will receive a special gift from Oakley. To learn more about the wide range of Oakley's products, visit www.oakley.com.

The Bowmanville, Ontario native is only the third defenseman this year to win this weekly award joining Arizona's Tyler Butler and Tulsa's Jeff Terminesi.is best week so far. On the week, Smale had three goals and two assists and scored the game winning goal in both of the Rush's victories. More impressive for the 6-5, 218-pound defenseman was that all five of his points came in the third periods of Rapid City's three games.

In Tuesday's 3-1 win in Tulsa, Smale scored the game winning goal and then added an empty-net score. He followed that up in Friday's 5-3 win over Wichita with the game winning goal that broke a three-all tie and earlier in the third period, he added an assist. In Saturday's 3-1 loss to Wichita, Smale assisted on the lone Rush goal of the evening.

Offense is not usually Smale's expertise as his role with the Rush includes him being one of the better defensive defensemen in the CHL but this week he added the offense to his repertoire matching the number of goals he had all season in just a two game stretch.

Oakley CHL Player of the Week

Andrew Smale, Rapid City Rush

Position: D

(Weekly Totals)

Games Played: 3

Goals: 3

Assists: 2

Points: 5

Plus/Minus: +4

Game Winning Goals: 2

Oakley CHL Player of the Week Winners

Oct. 24 - Brett Hemingway (Wichita)

Oct. 31 - Eric Giosa (Quad City)

Nov. 7 - Todd Robinson (Evansville)

Nov. 14 - Brian Bicek (Evansville)

Nov. 21 - Jeff Terminesi (Tulsa)

Nov. 28 - Jean-Michael Rizk (Fort Wayne)

Dec. 5 - Vladimir Nikiforov (Bloomington)

Dec. 12 - Jesse Schultz (Rapid City)

Dec. 19 - Thomas Beauregard (Wichita)

Dec. 26 - Bruce Graham (Allen)

Jan. 2 - Matt Summers (Wichita)

Jan. 9 - Todd Robinson (Evansville)

Jan. 16 - Tomas Klempa (Rio Grande Valley)

Jan. 23 - Rusty Masters (Laredo)

Jan. 30 - Tyler Butler (Arizona)

Feb. 6 - Scott Wray (Rapid City)

Feb. 13 - Todd Robinson (Evansville)

Feb. 20 - Matt Robinson (Wichita)

Feb. 27 - Aaron Lee (Rio Grande Valley)

Mar. 5 - Jon Booras (Bloomington)

Mar. 12 - Andrew Smale (Rapid City)



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