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Victoria's Wade Scores Two Shorthand Goals In 21 Seconds

April 14, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release


PRINCETON, N.J. - Ryan Wade of the Victoria Salmon Kings scored two shorthand goals in 21 seconds during a 4-3 win against Bakersfield at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre on Apr. 12, setting ECHL postseason records for shorthand goals in a game and two fastest shorthand goals.

Twenty-eight seconds after defenseman Paul Ballantyne was called for a penalty at 6:39 of the third and Victoria trailing 3-1, Wade scored the first shorthand goal and his second goal of the game at 7:32 of the third. He then completed the hat trick and tied the game with another shorthand goal at 7:53.

In his fifth professional season, the 29 year old has scored six shorthand goals in 265 regular season games with Victoria including two in 2007-08. Four of his shorthand goals have been scored at home while the remaining two have been at Alaska.

Chris St. Jacques scored the game-winning goal at even strength at 16:30 of the third to allow the Salmon Kings to tie the best-of-seven series at one game each.

The ECHL record for fastest two goals is six seconds by Kevin Kerr of Birmingham, who scored at 14:23 and 14:29 of the third period against Knoxville on Dec. 30, 1992. The ECHL record for shorthand goals in a single game during the regular season is three by Jamey Hicks of Birmingham on Jan. 27, 1998 at Pensacola.

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Celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2007-08, the ECHL 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 355 former ECHL players who have gone on to play in the NHL after playing in the ECHL, including 99 in the last three seasons. There have been 210 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.

The ECHL has affiliations with 26 of the 29 teams in the American Hockey League in 2007-08 and for the past 18 years there has been an ECHL player on the Calder Cup champion.

In each of the last two seasons there have been more than 225 players who have played in both the ECHL and the AHL and there were over 800 call-ups involving more than 500 players. In the last five seasons the ECHL has had more call-ups to the AHL than all other professional leagues combined with over 2,000 call-ups involving more than 1,000 players since 2002-03.

Further information on the ECHL is available from its website at ECHL.com.

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