St. Jacques, Ford and Turon Assigned By Toronto
October 10, 2004 - ECHL (ECHL)
Pensacola Ice Pilots News Release
Pensacola, FL - The Pensacola Ice Pilots, under the ownership group of Hockey Enterprises of Pensacola L.L.C. with owner Tim Kerr, announced that center Chris St. Jacques, defenseman David Turon and goalie Todd Ford have been assigned to the Ice Pilots from the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL.
St. Jacques, who stands 5'8" and weighs 183 pounds, played in 64 games last season for Medicine Hat of the WHL scoring 33 goals, 59 assists for 92 points and picked up 80 penalty minutes. He played in a total of 310 games for Medicine Hat from 1999-2004 scoring 152 goals, 216 assists for 368 points. St. Jacques is 21 years old from Edmonton, Alberta and shoots right.
Turon, who stands 6'2" and weighs 190 pounds, played in 42 games with Memphis last season in the CHL scoring 8 goals, 7 assists for 15 points and picked up 57 penalty minutes and also played in 11 games with St. John's of the AHL picking up one assist and two penalty minutes.
Turon played in 36 games for Portland of the WHL during the 2002-2003 season scoring 3 goals, 6 assists for 9 points and picked up 38 penalty minutes. He also played in 18 games for Havirov Femax in the Czech Republic from 2000-2002 picking up one assist and 14 penalty minutes.
Turon was selected in the 4th round and was the 122nd overall player taken in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft by Toronto. He is 21 years old from Harivov, Czech Republic and shoots right.
Ford, who stands 6'4" and weighs 180 pounds, played in 10 games with Vancouver last year in the WHL posting a record of 1-7-1 with a 3.47 goals against average and .892 save percentage and played in 28 games for Prince George of the WHL posting a record of 8-14-14 with a 3.32 goals against average and .897 save percentage. He also played for Swift Current of the WHL.
Ford was selected in the third round and was the 74th player taken overall in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs. He is 20 years old from Calgary, Alberta.
For career statistics on all players, visit The Team page of icepilots.com.
The Ice Pilots completed day two of training camp at the Pensacola Civic Center today. "I think the second day obviously went much better. The guys are more familiar with their equipment and also with one another. We got into working with the systems again today and their was a lot cohesion with one another as everyone look good for the second day of camp," said Ice Pilots Head Coach Dave Farrish.
After practice today, the Ice Pilots moved their training camp to the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi. "It is difficult going to Biloxi as we would like to get use to our own building here with the ice and the boards. The upside of moving camp is maybe we can develop a good cohesiveness at the start of the season and build our chemistry," said Farrish.
The Ice Pilots will play two home preseason games vs. the Gwinnett Gladiators at the Pensacola Civic Center on Friday, October 15 and Saturday, October 16 with both games beginning at 7:05 p.m.
Individual game tickets for the Ice Pilots two home preseason games are now on sale. Cost of individual game tickets for the two preseason games are $10 for all lower level seats and $5 for all upper level seats.
Individual game tickets for all 36 home games during the regular season will go on sale Friday, October 15 at 10:00 a.m. Cost for individual game tickets during the regular season are $22 for floor and glass, $15 for sides, $13 for behind the goal and lower upper level and $10 for upper level seats.
Fans can purchase individual game tickets for all 36 home games and the two preseason games in person at the Civic Center Box office, at any Ticketmaster location, Charge by Phone at 850-434-7444 or through the Ice Pilots website at www.icepilots.com.
The Ice Pilots under new Head Coach Dave Farrish will begin the 2004-2005 regular season at Mississippi on October 23 and play their home opener Satur day, October 30 vs. the Kelly Cup Finalists Florida Everblades at 7:05 p.m.
Season tickets for all 36 home games for floor and glass seats are $649.44, side seats are $459.00, goal seats and lower upper seats are $411.84 and upper seats cost $324.00 16 game plans, 8 game plans and flex packs also are available. Fans can call the Ice Pilots office at 432-7825 for season ticket and corporate sponsorship information.
The Ice Pilots are currently looking for housing for players for the regular season. The Ice Pilots regular housing is not available because of Hurricane Ivan. If anybody can help out with player housing, please call the Ice Pilots at 432-7825.
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