Wildcatters' Baker Named In Glas Co Player Of The Week
Published on November 7, 2006 under ECHL (ECHL) News Release
PRINCETON, N.J. - Kevin
Baker of the Texas Wildcatters is the In Glas Co ECHL Player of
the Week for Oct. 30-Nov. 5, 2006.
The 27-year-old scored a power-play goal and the game-winning goal in a 5-2
win at Columbia on Friday and he added another power-play goal on Saturday
at Gwinnett. He scored three points in a 4-3 overtime loss at Charlotte on
Sunday, including a power-play goal and the game-tying goal with 53 seconds
remaining in the game.
The 6-foot-1 and 190-pound Baker leads the league with nine goals and seven power-play goals while ranking third in scoring with 13 points. He has scored a goal in each of his last five games (7g), which is the longest goal-scoring streak in the ECHL this season, and has scored a goal in all but one game, including three two-goal games. He has scored a point in all seven of the Wildcatters games, tying him for the second-longest scoring streak in the league, and he has four multiple-point games.
He has played the last three years at Acadia University where he had 103
points (58g-45a) and 78 penalty minutes in 77 games. Selected in the
seventh round (193rd overall) by the Los Angeles Kings in the 1999 NHL
Entry Draft, Baker played professionally in the ECHL and the American
Hockey League from 2000-02 before returning to school.
On behalf of Kevin
Baker, a case of pucks will be donated to a Beaumont area youth hockey
organization by In Glas Co, the exclusive puck supplier for the
ECHL. Since beginning its sponsorship of the award in 2000-01, In Glas
Co has donated more than 15,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in
ECHL cities.
Runners Up: John
Morlang, Fresno (2 gp, 2g, 3a, 5 pts), Randy
Rowe, Johnstown (4 gp, 4g, 4a, 8 pts) and Brad
Herauf (3 gp, 4g, 2a, 6 pts).
Also Nominated: Jamie
Johnson (Augusta), Andrew
Ianiero (Bakersfield), Mark
Lee (Charlotte), Jonathan
Lehun (Florida), Brad
Schell (Gwinnett), Marty
Flichel (Idaho), Scott
May (Phoenix), Shawn
Collymore (Reading), Peter
Szabo (South Carolina), Stephane
Goulet (Stockton), Andrew
R. Martin (Toledo), Benoit
Mondou (Trenton), Francois-Pierre (F.P.) Guenette (Victoria) and Sean
Collins (Wheeling).
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