
Texas Rookie Khudobin Named Rbk Hockey ECHL Goaltender Of The Year
April 10, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL on Thursday announced that rookie Anton
Khudobin of the Texas Wildcatters is the recipient of the Rbk
Hockey Goaltender of the Year award for 2007-08.
He is the first rookie to win the award since Frederic Cloutier in 2001-02
and the seventh rookie selected since the honor began in 1993-94.
The Rbk Hockey Goaltender of the Year award is presented annually
to the goaltender adjudged to be the best at his position as determined in
a vote of ECHL coaches.
Craig
Kowalski of the Gwinnett Gladiators finished second in the voting
followed by Cedrick
Desjardins of the Cincinnati Cyclones and Daniel
Manzato, who played for both the Charlotte Checkers and the Las Vegas
Wranglers.
Khudobin, who was named to the ECHL
All-Rookie Team and First
Team All-ECHL, was 20-1-4 and led ECHL goaltenders with a goals-against
average of 1.98 and a save percentage of .934 while finishing tied for
third with three shutouts in 27 games with the Wildcatters. The 21 year old
has also played in the American Hockey League where he was 2-2-1 with a
shutout, a goals-against average of 1.99 and a save percentage of .911 in
12 games for Houston.
Selected in the seventh round (206th overall) by Minnesota in the 2004 NHL
Entry Draft and under NHL contract to the Wild, the native of
Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan was voted to the ECHL All-Star Game after going
10-0-3 with a goals-against average of 1.85 and a save percentage of .938
in his first 14 games.
He posted back-to-back shutouts in his last two regular season starts in
the ECHL on Feb. 1 and 12 and made 24 saves in his first postseason start,
a 4-1 win over Mississippi on Thursday.
In his last six starts he is 6-0-0 with two shutouts, a goals-against
average of 1.17 and a save percentage of .964.
Rbk Hockey ECHL Goaltender of the Year Award Winners
2007-08 Anton
Khudobin, Texas Wildcatters
2006-07 Adam
Berkhoel, Dayton Bombers
2005-06 Matt Underhill, Alaska Aces
2004-05 Chris Madden, Florida Everblades/Long Beach Ice Dogs
2003-04 Scott
Stirling, Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies
2002-03 Alfie Michaud, Peoria Rivermen
2001-02 Frederic Cloutier, Louisiana IceGators
2000-01 Scott
Stirling, Trenton Titans
1999-00 Jan Lasak, Hampton Roads Admirals
1998-99 Maxime Gingras, Richmond Renegades
1997-98 Nick Vitucci, Toledo Storm
1996-97 Marc Delorme, Louisiana IceGators
1995-96 Alain Morissette, Louisville RiverFrogs
1994-95 Chris Gordon, Huntington Blizzard
1993-94 Cory Cadden, Knoxville Cherokees
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