Utah's Walters Named Sher-Wood Athletic Group/ECHL Player of the Week
March 6, 2018 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
PRINCETON, N.J. - Ryan Walters of the Utah Grizzlies is the Sher-Wood Athletic Group ECHL Player of the Week for Feb. 26-March 4.
Walters scored five goals and added two assists for seven points in four games last week as the Grizzlies extended their unbeaten streak to nine games (8-0-1).
The 26-year-old tallied a pair of goals in a 5-2 win at Quad City on Wednesday, posted three points (2g-1a) in a 7-6 shootout loss to the Mallards on Friday and added a goal and an assist in a 5-2 victory at Indy on Saturday.
A native of Rosemount, Minnesota, Walters is tied for third in the ECHL with 28 goals and is tied for 11th with 55 points in 50 games. He began the season with Yunost Minsk in Belarus, where had 15 points (7g-8a) in 10 games.
Walters has recorded 225 points (102g-123a) in 238 career ECHL games with Utah, Rapid City and Alaska while adding 11 points (2g-9a) in 32 career games in the American Hockey League with Bridgeport, Iowa and San Diego.
Prior to turning pro, Walters tallied 134 points (50g-84a) in 152 games at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and had 108 points (39g-69a) in 135 career games with Des Moines of the United States Hockey League.
On behalf of Ryan Walters, a case of pucks will be donated to a Utah youth hockey organization by Sher-Wood Athletic Group, the exclusive puck supplier of the ECHL. Since beginning its sponsorship of the award in 2000-01, Sher-Wood Athletic Group has donated more than 37,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities.
Runners Up: Mitchell Heard, Florida (3 gp, 3g, 3a, 6 pts.), Darik Angeli, Norfolk (3 gp, 4g, 1a, 5 pts.) and Simon Denis, Toledo (4 gp, 1g, 6a, 7 pts.).
Also Nominated: Michael Joly (Colorado), Trevor Cheek (Fort Wayne), Robin Press (Indy), Jared VanWormer (Kansas City), Sam Jardine (Orlando), Matt Pohlkamp (Quad City), Riley Bourbonnais (Wheeling) and Ralph Cuddemi (Wichita).
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