Team Staton Tops Team Kretchy In Skills '07
March 6, 2007 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Manchester Monarchs News Release
MANCHESTER, NH - The Manchester Monarchs, the primary affiliate of the Los Angeles Kings, competed in an intra-squad Skills '07 event on Monday with the team led by WMUR Channel 9's Sports Director Jamie Staton beating Team Kretchy, led by Rock 101's Greg Kretschmar, 14-6.
Skills '07 was held at Sullivan Arena on the campus of Saint Anselm College. The event brought in nearly $6,000 for the Monarchs Care Foundation, the charitable arm of the Monarchs.
The competition was modeled after the AHL's annual All-Star Competition with seven events: Puck Control Relay, Rapid Fire, Accuracy Shooting, Breakaway Relay, Fastest Skater, Hardest Shot and Pass & Score. Defensemen Joey Mormina and Oleg Tverdovsky tied with a hardest shot of 97 miles-per-hour, left wing Petr Kanko was clocked as the fastest skater with a time of 13.325 seconds and left wing Matt Moulson hit four targets on five attempts in the accuracy shooting competition.
Puck Control Relay
Team Kretchy
Team Staton
Heat #1 Youth Hockey
Shane Tracy
Kyle Valliere
Winning player earns one goal:Valliere - Team Staton
Heat #2
Marty Murray
Matt Moulson
Lauri Tukonen
Dany Roussin
T.J. Kemp
Gabe Gauthier
Winning team earns one goal:Team Staton
Heat #3
Lauri Tukonen
Peter Harrold
Winning player earns one goal: Harrold - Team Staton
Rapid Fire
Team Kretchy Team Staton Saves Goals
Heat #1 Youth Hockey
Kurt Mitchell Ryan Slatke
Rutger Tupper 5 1
Brett Glendye Nathaniel O'Brien
Ben Seifert 4 3
Team with the most total saves earns one goal:Team Staton with 5 saves
Heat #2
Joey Mormina Barry Brust
Doug Nolan 6 4
Jason LaBarbera Gabe Gauthier
Dany Roussin 8 2
Heat #3
Greg Hogeboom Barry Brust
Richard Petiot 6 4
Jason LaBarbera Matt Ryan
Tim Jackman 7 3
Team with the most total saves earns one goal:Team Kretchy with 15 saves
Fastest Skater
Team Kretchy Sec. Team Staton Sec.
Heat #1 Youth Hockey
James Cottonwa 16.836 Ben Seifert 16.514
Individual with the fastest time earns one goal for the team:Seifert - Team Staton
Heat #2
Doug Nolan 13.847 Matt Ryan 13.83
Heat #3
Lauri Tukonen 13.93 Petr Kanko 13.325
Individual with the fastest time earns one goal for the team:Kanko - Team Staton
Fastest team average time earns one goal:Team Staton
Hardest Shot
Team Kretchy mph Team Staton mph
Heat #1 Youth Hockey
Rutger Tupper 56.9 Nathaniel O'Brien 57.3
Player with hardest shot earns one goal for team: O'Brien - Team Staton
Heat #2
Oleg Tverdovsky 97 Tim Jackman 90.4
Heat #3
Joey Mormina 97 Shay Stephenson 96.8
Heat #4
Greg Hogeboom 92.6 Petr Kanko 90
Heat #5
Richard Petiot 94.5 Peter Harrold 91
Player with hardest shot earns one goal for team:Tverdovsky/Mormina - Team Kretchy
Team with the higher average speed earns one goal: Team Kretchy 87.6 mph
Pass and Score
Team Kretchy Team Staton goals saves
Heat #1
Marty Murray Barry Brust 2 1
Greg Hogeboom
T.J. Kemp
Jason LaBarbera Tim Jackman 1 2
Paul Crosty
Petr Kanko
Heat #2
Lauri Tukonen Barry Brust 0 3
Brendan Buckley
Oleg Tverdovsky
Jason LaBarbera Matt Ryan 2 1
Dany Roussin
Matt Moulson
Team with the most goals earns one goal for the team: Team Staton 3 goals
Accuracy Shooting
Team Kretchy Hits Att Team Staton Hits Att
Heat #1 Youth Hockey
Kurt Mitchell 1 8 Jackson Musgrave 0 8
Player with most hits in fewest attempts earns one goal for team: Mitchell - Team Kretchy
Heat #2
Oleg Tverdovsky 4 6 Dany Roussin 2 8
Heat #3
T.J. Kemp 1 8 Matt Moulson 4 5
Heat #4
Marty Murray 3 8 Gabe Gauthier 3 8
Player with most hits in fewest attempts earns one goal for team: Moulson 4-for-5 - Team Staton
Team with most total hits in fewest attempts earns one goal: Team Staton 9-for-21
Possible goals = 3
Passers Passers
Doug Nolan Peter Harrold
Brendan Buckley Paul Crosty
Breakaway Relay
Team Kretchy goal save Team Staton goal save
Heat #1
Doug Nolan 1 Peter Harrold 1
Brendan Buckley 1 Matt Ryan 1
Richard Petiot 1 Paul Crosty 1
Joey Mormina 1 Petr Kanko 1
Marty Murray 1 Dany Roussin 1
vs. Barry Brust vs. Jason LaBarbera
Heat #2
Greg Hogeboom 1 Tim Jackman 1
Marty Murray 1 Matt Moulson 1
T.J. Kemp 1 Gabe Gauthier 1
Oleg Tverdovsky 1 Shay Stephenson 1
Lauri Tukonen 1 Petr Kanko 1
vs. Barry Brust vs. Jason LaBarbera
Each individual goal scored counts toward the overall team score: Team Staton 3 goals
The Monarchs host the Hartford Wolf Pack on Wednesday, March 6 at the Verizon Wireless Arena with the opening face-off at 7:35 p.m. Catch all of the play-by-play action of Monarchs hockey with Ken Cail on the Monarchs Radio Network WGIR-AM 610 and at www.monarchshockey.com. Watch the game live on B2 Networks for just $6 per game. Log onto www.monarchshockey.com and click on the link to B2 Networks ten minutes prior to each Monarchs game to watch the game live.
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