McElroy Replaces Teammate Fraser On American Roster
January 9, 2007 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL announced that South Carolina rookie defenseman
T.J.
McElroy has replaced teammate Jamie
Fraser on the American Conference roster for the 2007 Rbk Hockey
ECHL All-Star Game.
Sponsored by Rbk Hockey and hosted by the Idaho Steelheads at Qwest
Arena in Boise, Idaho, the 15th Annual ECHL All-Star Game will be at 7 p.m.
MT on Jan. 17 and the 10th Annual ECHL All-Star Skills Competition will be
at 7 p.m. MT on Jan. 16.
In his first professional season, the 24-year-old McElroy has 11 points
(4g-7a) in 28 games for the Stingrays after playing four seasons at St.
Cloud State where he had 10 points (6g-4a) in 107 games.
The 21-year-old Fraser is playing in the American Hockey League with the
Bridgeport and will not be available for the game. He has three points
(2g-1a) in three games with Bridgeport and has also played two games with
Syracuse in the AHL. He has 28 points (5g-23a) in 27 games with South
Carolina and was named the CCM Vector ECHL Rookie of the Month for
November.
ECHL
The league officially changed its name to ECHL on May 19, 2003.
The Premier 'AA' Hockey League, the ECHL has affiliations with 25 of the 30
teams in the National Hockey League in 2006-07. There have been 312 former
ECHL players who have gone on to play in the NHL after playing in the ECHL,
including a record 47 in 2005-06. There have been 167 players who have
played in the NHL after the ECHL in the past five seasons.
The ECHL was represented for the sixth consecutive year on the National
Hockey League championship team, including Carolina Hurricanes head coach
Peter Laviolette, who is the first ECHL coach to win the Stanley Cup.
The ECHL has affiliations with 24 of the 27 teams in the American Hockey
League in 2006-07 and for the past 17 years there has been an ECHL player
on the Calder Cup champion. The ECHL has had more players called up to the
AHL than all other professional leagues combined each of the past four
seasons with 1,646 call ups involving almost 1,000 players.
The ECHL raised its average attendance for the third straight year in
2005-06 drawing 3,934,794 for 900 games which is an average of 4,372 per
game, an increase of more than nine percent from 2004-05 and the largest
per-game average since 1999-2000. Six teams surpassed 200,000 and nine
teams averaged 5,000 per game for the first time since 1999-2000 as the
league welcomed 39 sellout crowds and 13 of the 22 returning teams raised
their average attendance from a year ago.
In 2005-06 the ECHL and its member teams contributed more than $2.3 million
for charity and relief funds, including those benefiting victims of
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, while also making thousands of appearances by
players, coaches, team personnel and mascots at schools, hospitals,
libraries and charity functions.
Further information on the ECHL is available from its website at ECHL.com.
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