Tallahassee Tiger Sharks Player Updates March 2002

Former Tiger Shark right wing Ben Guite and 20-year-old Swedish prospect Bjorn Melin were traded to the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in exchange for Dave Roche.

Guite, 23, is in his second professional season after playing collegiately at Maine. He is second among AHL rookies with a plus-15 rating and has 12 goals and 18 assists in 68 games with Bridgeport.

PRINCETON, N.J. - The East Coast Hockey League on Sunday announced the 2001-02 postseason All-ECHL teams as determined in a vote of ECHL Coaches.

The first team includes two right wings because Kowalsky and Walby both received the same number of votes. Each player is making their inaugural appearance on an All-ECHL team.

Traded to Greenville from Reading on March 2, Tremblay, who played in the 2002 Sovereign Bank/ECHL All-Star Game, is tied for eighth among ECHL defensemen with 48 points on 11 goals and 37 assists.

Tremblay appeared in 16 games for the Tiger Sharks in the 1999-00 season, recording four goals and assists for Tallahasse as well as playing in 46 game with the Sharks AHL affiliate, the Quebec Citadelles.

Reassigned back to the Tiger Sharks for the 2000-01 season, Tremblay had seven goals and 20 assists in 56 contests.

When was the last time the Mississippi Sea Wolves had to scratch a player from the lineup?

"I don't even remember," first-year coach Bob Woods said.

Actually, it's been since Dec. 12. Tonight, he'll get to do it again with the return of top defenseman Jim Baxter and third-leading scorer Brent Gauvreau.

The Sea Wolves (38-25-5) play the return half of a home-and-home with the Arkansas RiverBlades (29-30-10) in North Little Rock and Woods should have 19 healthy bodies.

Jim Baxter will be playing in his first full game since spraining his ankle in a game on Feb. 1. He dressed and played briefly in one game since but only because the Sea Wolves were extremely shorthanded.

First RiverKing To Take League Honor

For Immediate Release
Contact: Steve McCall

The rest of the Central Hockey League seems to agree with what observers of the Memphis RiverKings have known for quite some time. Left winger Don Parsons is the Central Hockey League's Most Valuable Player.

Parsons won the Advantage-Rent-A-Car CHL Most Valuable Player Award in balloting conducted among CHL coaches, team personnel and media members. Parsons is the first RiverKing to win the award in the team's 10-year history.

"It's a nice honor to be recognized by other people around the league. Sometimes when I'm playing against those teams it seems like they don't like me that much," Parsons said with a laugh. "But it's good to know you have their respect."

(March 29, 2002) WCTV's 6:00 news reported that ACHL Commissioner Bill Coffey stated that the chances of Tallahassee having an ice hockey team next season is between 100 and 110%.

The new ACHL is led by Coffey, who helped create the ECHL in 1988 and was the first owner of the Knoxville ECHL team that is now the Pee Dee Pride. There is no indication as to who the owners of a new Tallahassee hockey franchise might be.

Six cities are expected to be charter members of the new Atlantic Coast Hockey League. Other cities named in an article that appeared on March 23rd in the Fayetteville Times are Fayetteville and Winston-Salem,N.C., Knoxville, Tenn., and Orlando and Jacksonville, Fla.

The ACHL, which is expected to make a formal announcement of its formation shortly, could have as many as 12 teams by the time its season begins in October.

Other cities rumored have been Macon, Savannah, and possibly Augusta, Ga., Knoxville, Tn., Asheville, N.C., Mobile and Birmingham, Al., and Daytona Beach and St. Petersburg, Fl.

The new league will play a 60-game schedule and feature a strict salary cap, along with other measures designed to help keep operating costs down, they said.

An official announcement on the new league/Tallahassee team is due the week of April 8.

A new ACHL e-mail list is available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ACHL/

(03/08/02) B.C. Icemen (UHL) -- Activated goaltender Erasmo Saltarelli from team suspension.
(03/14/02) New Orleans Brass (ECHL) -- Activated right wing J.F. Houle from the injured reserve.
(03/14/02) Saint John Flames (AHL) -- Recalled left wing Mitch Fritz from Columbus of the East Coast Hockey League
(03/18/02) WCHL -- Suspended San Diego forward Mark Woolf for five games.
(03/20/02) Mighty Ducks of Anaheim -- Assigned right wing Ben Guite on loan to Cincinnati of the American Hockey League.
(03/24/02) Providence Bruins (AHL) -- Recalled defenseman Simon Tremblay from Greenville of the East Coast Hockey League.
(03/25/02) Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) -- Released center Colin Chaulk.
(03/28/02) West Coast Hockey League -- Upheld the five game suspension of San Diego Gulls forward Mark Woolf.
(03/28/02) West Coast Hockey League -- Fined Colorado Gold Kings forward Colin Chaulk an undisclosed sum for conduct detrimental to the league.
(03/30/02) Providence Bruins (AHL) -- Returned defenseman Simon Tremblay to Greenville of the East Coast Hockey League.

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