Congrats to the following Gardner Goaltending Students:
- Thomas Tysowsky
- Branden Komm
- Matt Green
Branden Komm - has committed to D1 BENTLEY after a tremendous season and playoff run at NMH prep school.
Thomas Tysowsky - All Rookie Team AHA @ Holy Cross
Matt Green - Back 2 Back Shutouts for Lincoln USHL
Matt Green held Team USA, with the top under-17 players in the country, without a goal and the Stars won 2-0 on Saturday. Green was also in net when Lincoln beat Fargo 6-0 on Friday.Green has a 9-12-4 record and his four shutouts are tied for second-most in the USHL this season. He’s only the third Stars goalie to record back-to-back shutouts.
“Back-to-back shutouts is remarkable, especially with a team in our situation,” stars coach Jimmy McGroarty said. “His biggest thing is his composure. This weekend he did a great job of knowing where the puck is at all times.”
2010 SPRING TUNE UP CLINICS
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April 3 12 - 1:50 pm ($75)
April 10 11 - 12:30 ($60)
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2010 Lessons, Goalie Camp and Future Prospects Camp information are online. Contact Greg if you have any questions.
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DAVE LEGGIO - NHL CAROLINA HURRICANES
KELLY CUP PLAYOFFS: Hopes for Stingrays, Blades start in goal
Friday, April 24, 2009
FLORIDA EVERBLADES
David Leggio
Born July 31, 1984
From Buffalo, N.Y.
Height: 5-foot-11
Weight: 179 pounds
Best season: Went 24-7-5 as a junior at Clarkson Unniversity, with a 2.16 goals-against average and a 0.930 save percentage.
This year: Went 27-7-3 with a 2.26 goals-against average for the Blades, Signed Contract with NHL Carolina Hurricanes
Playoffs: 4-0-1 against Gwinnett with a 2.03 goals-against-average
Pre-Game Ritual: Eats oatmeal before coming to the rink
ESTERO — In a series pitting two of the ECHL's top high-wire offensive acts against each other, anything is possible.When the second-seeded South Carolina Stingrays take on the top-seeded Florida Everblades at 7:30 tonight at Germain Arena, in Game 1 of the South Division Finals, everybody will be watching the scorers.One position might just be more important to the Blades and Stingrays than anything else -- even though it's highly unlikely these guys will even take a shot. In a battle of two offensive armies, it's the Lone Rangers in net who could prove most crucial. Goaltending can win or lose hockey championships.
Starting this weekend at Germain Arena, it could determine which team moves on to the American Conference Finals.
Blades goalie David Leggio "Leggio" is an Italian word meaning bookrest, music stand or lectern. Basically, it's something people use to hold up important things -- a solid support.
Maybe the name is fitting, because if there's one thing goalie David Leggio has been for the Blades this season, it's solid. And if there's one thing the Blades have used Leggio for, it's to hold them up. Leggio will start every game in the playoffs for the Blades, because their second roster goalie, not an emergency backup, is Anton Khudobin, who has been on an AHL call-up to the Houston Aeros since Feb. 28. Khudobin is 3-2 so far in the playoffs for Houston, with a 2.62 goals-against average. With both Houston's goalies injured and Khudobin playing well, it's likely Khudobin won't return to the Blades until Houston's playoff run ends.
Cameron said on Thursday that he hadn't talked to the Aeros for two weeks.
"I think it's poor taste to talk to them about their top goalie in the midst of a playoff run," Cameron said. "It's Leggio's net here."
Those are the magical words Leggio, an ECHL rookie, has been waiting to hear since he was a kid in Buffalo, N.Y., struggling to make the area's top select hockey teams -- never being drafted into major-junior hockey, much less the NHL.
When Leggio finally snatched a walk-on spot to Clarkson University in the hockey-rich Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, he made some noise and become one of college hockey's top goalies his junior and senior years for the Golden Knights. Then, the Blades' NHL affiliate Carolina Hurricanes told Cameron and Blades general manager Craig Brush that the Canes wouldn't be supplying a goalie, Cameron decided he wanted Leggio, and an All-Star season in the ECHL in '08-09 was hatched. Even then, Leggio had to figure he'd play second fiddle to Khudobin, the Minnesota Wild prospect and 2008 ECHL goalie of the year. But when the ECHL playoffs came two weeks ago and Khudobin stayed in Houston, suddenly it was all about Leggio. The 5-foot-11, 179-pound netminder hasn't showed any signs yet of cracking under pressure. On a team like the Blades, with plenty of talent on offense and defense, a goalie doesn't always have to be a hero.
"He's just steady," Cameron said of Leggio. "There's no highs or lows. He's made almost every save he needed to make when we needed him to make them."That was particularly true last Sunday, when Leggio made 21 saves on 22 shots to help the Blades to a 2-1 series-clinching win against fourth-seeded Gwinnett. Early in that game, Blades radio announcer Kevin Reiter mentioned two highlight-reel saves from Leggio. "If the Blades go on to win this game, you've gotta go back to those two saves by David Leggio ... those could've been game-savers right there," Reiter said. Twenty-one saves aren't the kind of huge numbers that will make headlines or bring attention from NHL or AHL scouts. But anchoring a team in net on the way to its first-ever Kelly Cup could, and that's Leggio's goal.
"My Goalie coach (Greg Gardner, assistant coach and former goalie at Niagara University) told me you have to prepare for every game as if it's a big game," Leggio said. "That's what I've done. Now, in the playoffs, every game is a big game, and I'm ready for it."
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