Talbot Named Rbk Hockey/AHL Player of the Week
March 26, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The American Hockey League announced that
former Alaska and current Peoria center Julian
Talbot has been named the Rbk Hockey/AHL Player of the Week for
the period ending Mar. 23.
It is the 10th time this season that a former ECHL player has won the
award. In addition to Talbot, former ECHL players who have been selected
are Sean
Curry (Dec. 16), Jaroslav
Halak (Jan. 6), Grant
Stevenson (Jan. 20), Danny
Taylor and
Miika Wiikman (Jan. 27), Andrew
Gordon (Feb. 11), Drew
MacIntyre (Feb. 25) and Karl
Goehring (Mar. 2) and Barry
Brust (Mar. 9).
The ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 29 teams in the AHL, marking the
seventh consecutive season that it has had affiliations with 20 or more
teams in the AHL. More than 225 players have played in both the ECHL and
the AHL this season and almost 500 players with ECHL experience have played
in the AHL this year. The AHL has 10 former ECHL coaches who are head
coaches and 14 others who are assistant coaches.
After signing
his first National Hockey League contract with the St. Louis Blues on Mar.
19, the 23-year-old Talbot registered his second hat trick of the season
and added an assist while tying the AHL season high with a plus-minus
rating of +5 in a 5-2 win against Lake Erie on Mar. 21.
In his first professional season in 2006-07, Talbot was named to the ECHL
All-Rookie Team, finished second in voting for ECHL
Rookie of the Year and was chosen to play in the ECHL
All-Star Game. He led Alaska in the Kelly Cup Playoffs with nine goals,
11 assists and 20 points in 15 games after finishing tied for fourth among
league rookies with 53 points (20g-33a) in 66 regular season games.
Other former ECHL players nominated for the Rbk Hockey/AHL Player
of the Week were Marc
Cavosie, Karl
Goehring, Wade
Flaherty, Matt
Hendricks, Dennis
Packard, Pierre-Alexandre
Parenteau, Marco
Rosa, Trevor
Smith and Mike
Wall.
Former ECHL players won the CCM/AHL Player of the Month award in
November (Martin
St. Pierre), December (Pascal
Pelletier) and January (Grant
Stevenson). Trevor
Smith, who played in the ECHL with Utah this season, was the Rbk
Edge/AHL Rookie of the Month for February while John
Curry, who played this year for both Las Vegas and Wheeling, was the
winner in December. Former ECHL All-Star Jeff
Glass was the Rbk X-Pulse/AHL Goaltender of the Month for
November and Danny
Taylor was the winner in January.
For the 18th year in a row there is a former ECHL player on the American
Hockey League champion as Hamilton had a record 12 players with ECHL
experience on its roster.
In both 2005-06 and 2006-07, more than 225 players played in both the ECHL
and the AHL and there were over 800 call ups, involving over 500 players,
from the ECHL to the AHL. From 2002-03 to 2006-07, the ECHL had over 2,000
call ups, involving more than 1,000 players, which is more than the total
call ups for all other professional leagues combined during that time
period.
The AHL Player of the Week award was won 14 times by a former ECHL player
in 2006-07 while a former ECHL goaltender was named the AHL Goaltender of
the Month the last five months of the season. Six former ECHL players were
on the All-AHL Teams in 2006-07 including former Charlotte goaltender and
Jason
LaBarbera, who was named Goaltender of the Year, and former Mississippi
defenseman and Sheldon
Brookbank, who was selected as Defenseman of the Year, while former
ECHL goaltender Jaroslav
Halak was named to the AHL All-Rookie team.
ECHL
The ECHL, celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2007-08, is the Premier 'AA'
Hockey League and the third-longest tenured professional hockey league
behind only the National Hockey League and the American Hockey League.
ECHL began in 1988-89 with five teams in four states and has grown to be a
coast-to-coast league with 25 teams playing 900 games in 17 states and
British Columbia in 2007-08.
The league officially changed its name to ECHL on May 19, 2003.
The ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 30 teams in the NHL in 2007-08,
marking the 11th consecutive season that the league has had affiliations
with at least 20 teams in the NHL.
There have been 352
former ECHL players who have gone on to play in the NHL after playing in
the ECHL, including 95 in the last three seasons.
There have been 207 former ECHL players who have played their first game in
the NHL in the past seven seasons.
There are 15 coaches in the NHL who have ECHL experience including former
Wheeling coach Peter Laviolette, who is head coach of the Carolina
Hurricanes, and former Mississippi coach Bruce
Boudreau, who is head coach of the Washington Capitals.
The ECHL is represented for the seventh consecutive year on the National
Hockey League championship team in 2007 with Anaheim assistant coach Dave
Farrish, players Francois Beauchemin and George Parros and broadcasters
John Ahlers and Steve Carroll.
Further information on the ECHL is available from its website at ECHL.com.
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