Nothing new to report today regarding the Americans. I will attend my first practice of the season this morning and will hopefully have something to report tomorrow after talking to coach Martinson and some of the players.
- I was looking at the ECHL standings this morning while writing my ECHL Stats post and came across a couple of interesting facts. First, only two of 27 teams have a points percentage above .667. Newfoundland is undefeated (4-0-0-0) and Jacksonville's points percentage is .833 (2-0-1-0). Second, 19 of 27 teams have points percentages between .500-.667. Considering most ECHL teams have only played three or four games, to have every team with the exception of Newfoundland with at least one win and one loss speaks to early parity.
- Here is a link to "Americans Weekly" which is issued by the team and recaps the week's games, team stat leaders, other facts and this week's practice schedule. Remember practices are open to the public: https://allenamericans.com/media/186732/
- Here is a link to the "Mountain Division Weekly" which is issued by the ECHL with facts about all the teams in the division: https://www.echl.com/en/news/2021/11/mountain-division-weekly-nov-1
- You may have seen Newfoundland can't play in its home facility because the city of St. John's has suspended the team's access pending an investigation for "disrespectful workplace conduct" allegations. The Growlers were initially going to play their home games in Toronto but have found a facility closer to St. John's in Conception Bay South, a community 18 miles from St. John's. The Conception Bay South Arena only seats 1065 so that will create some issues. Here is a link to a story with all the details and impacts: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/newfoundland-growlers-cbs-1.6233087
- The ECHL leader in points is Idaho rookie Yauheni Aksiantsiuk who has nine points (4G, 5A) in five games. The 5'7" 170 pound 20 year old forward is from Belarus and was the 6th round draft choice of the Dallas Stars in the 2020 NHL draft. There has been some confusion about his name as he was drafted by the name Yevgeni Oksentyuk. Turns out Belarus has two official languages, Belarusian and Russian, thus the two ways to spell his name. Seems like it is agreed Yauheni Aksiantsiuk, the Belarusian spelling will be used going forward. Yauheni signed a three year entry level NHL contract with the Stars in June. If he continues to score at his present pace you should see him get recalled to the Texas Stars soon.
- I wrote about the Americans attendance yesterday and had a couple of inquiries about the ECHL average attendance. Here is the ECHL average attendance the last five seasons. Keep in mind the 2021-22 attendance is based on just 48 games and some of the historically high attendance teams have few if any home games played. With that said, here is average ECHL attendance since 2017-18:
3883: 2021-22
2275: 2020-21 (COVID restricted)
4327: 2019-20 (shortened season)
4445: 2018-19
4424: 2017-18
- Four ECHL teams are averaging 4.00+ goals per game and four teams are allowing less than 2.50 goals per game. Two teams are on both lists:
Top Four Goals Per Game
5.67 - Toledo
4.00 - Indy
4.00 - Newfoundland
4.00 - Orlando
Top Four Goals Allowed
1.50 - Indy
1.75 - Newfoundland
2.00 - Kalamazoo
2.33 - Jacksonville
DID YOU KNOW: With Allen's poor start to the season, losing three of four games at home, I pulled this info out of the archives. Here is Allen's record after 25 games for each season since joining the
ECHL with points in parenthesis. Last season was unique with a late start and only 14 teams playing so I didn't include it:
2019-20: 18-4-3-0 (39 points)
2018-19: 6-17-0-2 (14 points)**
2017-18: 15-7-2-1 (33 points)
2016-17: 13-12-0-0 (26 points)
2015-16: 15-9-1-0 (31 points)*
2014-15: 19-4-1-1 (40 points)*
*Kelly Cup champions
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