Storm's Doug Teskey Named Sun National Bank Saver Of The Month

April 5, 2003 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release

PRINCETON, N.J. ­ Doug Teskey of the Toledo Storm is the Sun National Bank East Coast Hockey League Saver of the Month for March. The 27-year-old Teskey was 8-2-1 with a 2.62 goals against average and a .917 save percentage as Toledo went 9-2-2 and won the Brabham Cup, awarded annually to the ECHL team with the highest regular season point total.

After opening the month 1-1-1, Teskey went 6-0-0 with a 2.48 goals against average and a .917 save percentage. He posted back-to-back wins over Peoria, who Toledo beat by one point for the Brabham Cup, on March 14 and 15. He made 29 saves in a 5-3 win on March 14 and then came on in relief of injured Brian Finley on March 15 and stopped 17 of 19 shots in a 4-3 win.

In his first season in the ECHL, Teskey was 31-8-5 and ranked third in the ECHL with 31 wins and 17th in goals against average with 2.89.

Runners Up: Josh Blackburn, Columbia (6-1-0, 2.55 GAA, .922 save pct.), Kyle Kettles, Louisiana (7-4-0, 1.92 GAA, .944 save pct.), and Duane Derksen, Peoria (4-2-1, 1.91 GAA, .930 save pct.).

Others Nominated: Scott Fankhouser (Arkansas), Matt Yeats (Atlantic City), Tom Draper (Augusta), Niklas Sundberg (Baton Rouge), Colin Zulianello (Charlotte), Jayme Platt (Dayton), Brian Leitza (Florida), Daniel Berthiaume (Greensboro), Dan Murphy (Lexington), Greg Gardner (Mississippi), Ron Vogel (Pee Dee), Maxime Gingras (Pensacola), Jeff Sanger (Reading), Dan Lombard (Richmond), Kirk Daubenspeck (South Carolina), and Mike Valley (Wheeling).

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