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Rookies Boisclair, Smyth Have ECHL Season-High Assist Streaks

Published on December 11, 2006 under ECHL (ECHL) News Release


Johnstown rookie Maxime Boisclair and Wheeling rookie Jon Smyth each begin the week with a seven-game assist streak, the longest assist streak in the ECHL this season.

Boisclair, who has nine assists during his streak, is tied for the ECHL rookie lead with 28 points while he is second among rookies with 18 assists and tied for second with 10 goals. He also has an 11-game scoring streak (7g-12a) which is the second-longest active streak and tied for the fifth-longest overall. The 21-year-old has had two assists four times including Nov. 24 at Reading when he also had career bests with three goals and five points.

Smyth, who did not score in his first seven games as a professional, has 10 assists in his streak during which he also scored his first professional goal on Dec. 3. He had three assists and three points on Friday, surpassing his highs of two assists on Nov. 26 and two points on Nov. 26 and Dec. 3.

Former Captain Mylymok Inducted Into Steelheads Wall Of Fame

Former team captain Jeremy Mylymok became the second honoree on the Idaho Steelheads Wall of Fame in a ceremony held between periods of the team's game against Phoenix on Saturday. Mylymok joins Cal Ingraham, who had his No. 22 jersey retired at the beginning of the 2002-03 season, on the Wall of Fame.

Mylymok played six seasons for Idaho from 2000-06 and he holds the career record with 894 penalty minutes while he is second with 330 games and 127 assists and fourth with 173 points. He helped Idaho become only the second expansion team in league history to capture the Kelly Cup championship in 2003-04, finishing with 21 points (5g-16a) and 146 penalty minutes in 64 regular season games and three assists and 38 penalty minutes in 18 postseason games.

He began his career in the ECHL with Toledo in 1995-96 and had one goal and 24 penalty minutes in nine regular season games and 10 penalty minutes in eight playoff games. He played six seasons in the ECHL and had 77 points (13g-64a) and 581 penalty minutes in 262 regular season games and five points (1g-4a) and 108 penalty minutes in 44 playoff games with Idaho, Jackson, Pensacola and Toledo.

Mylymok played 11 professional seasons in the ECHL, the American Hockey League, the International Hockey League and the West Coast Hockey League, finishing with 226 points (55g-171a) and 1,658 penalty minutes in 600 regular season games and 24 points (5g-19a) and 262 penalty minutes in 114 playoff games.

Wildcatters' Yeats Makes 53 Saves ... Again

Matt Yeats of Texas made 53 saves in Texas' 4-0 win against Charlotte on Friday tying the ECHL season high for saves in a game that he set on Nov. 3 when he stopped 53 of 55 shots in a 5-2 win at Columbia. He has faced 40 shots only one other time in 17 games and averages 30.6 shots per game. Yeats is tied for the league lead with 11 wins and is 11-4-2 with goals-against average of 3.20 and a save percentage of .908. Prior to this season he had never faced 50 shots in a game in 114 career regular season games and 15 career playoff games. His previous regular season high was 44 shots with Portland of the American Hockey League in a 3-0 win at Springfield on Mar. 13, 2004 while his all-time high is 49 shots with Idaho of the ECHL in a 1-0 win in the Kelly Cup Playoffs at Las Vegas on Apr. 11, 2006.

League Surpasses Million For 17th Time; Returning Teams Attendance Is Up

The second-largest crowd of the season in Pensacola combined with 6,871 in Gwinnett and more than 5,000 in Alaska, Reading and Stockton helped the ECHL surpass one million fans for the 17th consecutive season on Friday. The league has drawn 1,086,152 and is averaging 4,068 per game while returning teams have drawn 1,046,661 and are averaging 4,237 per game which is an increase of 1.9 percent from the same time last season.

Stockton had more than 13,000 for its two-game Pacific Division showdown against Las Vegas and has moved back into first place with 77,548 fans and an average of 6,462 per game, an increase of 1.9 percent from its first season in 2005-06 when it led the league with 6,343 per game. Gwinnett is second in average attendance with 6,272 per game, an increase of 13.5 percent from last season.

Bakersfield is second in total attendance with 72,504 and third in average attendance at 6,042 per game. The Condors are looking to raise their attendance for the fourth straight year and are up 7.8 percent from last season and almost 34 percent from 2003-04 when they joined as an expansion team. Florida is third in total attendance at 71,543 and fourth in average attendance with 5,962 per game.

Alaska drew more than 15,000 for its three-game series with Fresno, raising its average attendance 4.4 percent from last year to 5,099 per game, while Fresno is up 2.5 percent at 4,577 per game. Dayton had its second largest crowd of the season with 4,979 on Saturday and its average attendance is up 20.5 percent from last season while Toledo raised its average to 4,503 per game, an increase of 13.4 percent from a year ago. Idaho had its largest crowd of the season with 4,979 on Saturday while Utah has seen its average grow 10 percent to 4,232 per game and Texas is up more than 10 percent from 2004-05 which is the last season the Wildcatters played.

The league has raised average attendance each of the last three years, including 2005-06 when it had its largest per-game average since 1999-2000 with 4,372 per game as 13 of 22 returning teams raised attendance.

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