From: farenebt@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Bri Farenell ("Droopy"))
Subject: REPOST: Calder Cup Playoff Stats/misc
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 04:52:58 GMT

JACK BUTTERFIELD TROPHY WINNER (Playoff MVP) PROFILE -- Allan Bester
Allan Bester's season with the Adirondack Red Wings did not have an auspicious
debut. He was assigned to the team during a trip to the Canadian Maritimes. He
offered to start a game in Fredericton despite having skate troubles. He was
left in the entire game of an embarassing 11-3 loss. He compiled a 6-7 record
in Adirondack before being promoted to Detroit. He suffered a knee injury in
his first week in Detroit and was then returned to Adirondack the day after
Christmas.  He did not play until Feb. 8 with the A-Wings. He played twice in
February as Scott King saw most of the action. On March 17, Bester made his
first start since Feb. 8 and won 6 straight games down the stretch as he helped
vault the Wings into 2nd place. He was excellent in the team's first round win
over New Haven and unreal in their quarterfinal sweep of regular season
division champ Springfield. He compiled an 8-1 record with a 2.08 GAA in those
two rounds. He backstopped the Wings to their second ever playoff win in
Rochester, a series clinching win in the semifinals. He made dozens of key
saves in all the series and he was the biggest single reason the Calder Cup
will remain in Glens Falls until, at least, next May. Perhaps the most
impressive showing was his ability to bounce back from a less than par
performance in Game 6 (15 saves on 19 shots) and have a spectacular (45 saves
on 47 shots) effort in the most pressure-packed of situations. Bester also set
an AHL (and, of course, team) record with 14 wins in one playoff year. Bester
becomes the 5th straight goalie to win the Butterfield Trophy. The last
position player to win it was Rochester's Dave Fenvyes in 1987. Clearly, the
"Bester" team won. Congrats Allan!


PREVIOUS AHL PLAYOFF MVP'S
1984	Bud Stefanski, MAINE		1985	Brian Skrudland, SHERBROOKE
1986	Tim Tookey, HERSHEY		1987	Dave Fenvyes, ROCHESTER
1988	Wendell Young, HERSHEY		1989	Sam St Laurent, ADIRONDACK
1990	Jeff Hackett, SPRINGFIELD	1991	Kay Whitmore, SPRINGFIELD
1992	Allan Bester, ADIRONDACK
 
RECENT CALDER CUP CHAMPIONS
1981 	Adirondack			1982	New Brunswick
1983	Rochester			1984	Maine
1985	Sherbrooke			1986	Adirondack
1987	Rochester			1988	Hershey
1989	Adirondack			1990 	Springfield
1991 	Springfield			1992 	Adirondack (!!!)

MOST ALL-TIME CALDER CUPS (current teams only)
Springfield	7	in 49 years
Hershey		7	in 54 years
Rochester	5	in 36 years
Adirondack	4 	in 13 years
Providence	4	in 41 years	(AHL franchise in 1992-93) 

FINAL AHL PLAYOFF SCORING LEADERS
			GMS	G	A	PTS
Mike Sillinger, ADR	15	9	19	28
Andrew McKim, STJ	16	11	12	23
Mike Eastwood, STJ	16	9	10	19
Ken Quinney, ADR	19	7	12	19
Lonnie Loach, ADR	19	13	4	17
Rob Zamuner, BIN	11	8	9	17
Chris Tancill, ADR	19	7	19	16
Mark Ferner, STJ	14	2	14	16
Yanic Perreault, STJ	16	7	8	15
Greg Johnston, STJ	16	8	6	14
Jody Gage, ROC		16	5	9	14
Sheldon Kennedy, ADR	16	5	9	14
Kent Manderville, STJ	12	5	9	14

FINAL AHL PLAYOFF GOALTENDING STATS
			GMS	MIN	GAA
Allan Bester, ADR	19	1174	2.56		(14-5 record)
Frederic Chabot, FRE	7	457	2.63		(3-4 record)
Damian Rhodes, STJ	6	331	2.90		(3-1 record)
Dave Littman, ROC	15	879	2.94
Mark LaForest, BIN	11	662	3.08
Jimmy Waite, HER	6	360	3.17
Mario Gosselin, SPR	6	319	3.39
Danny Lorenz, CDI	7	442	3.39		(3-4 record)
Paul Cohen, SPR		6	282	3.40		(1 goal scored)
George Maneluk, NH	3	216	3.61
Felix Potvin, STJ	11	642	3.83		
			
NOTES on the stats: As stated before, Bester's 14 wins set an AHL record for
	most wins in a 	playoff year. The old record was 12 shared by many
	goalies.  Sillinger's 28 points ties the AHL record for most points in
	one playoff year; this despite the fact that Sillinger missed the
	entire second-round of the playoffs while he was up in Detroit. He ties 
	New Haven's Hubie McDonough's output of the 1989 playoffs (note:
	I have two sources who tell me that McDonough had 28 points in the 1989
	playoffs and another who says he had 31. I believe it is 28 but I'd
	just like to put this disclaimer in case I'm wrong. Does anyone out
	there know for sure?)
 
ANALOGY: The Wings' season closely parallels that of the Stanley Cup champion
Pittsburgh Penguins. People felt that both underachieved during the regular
season. In the regular season, both had wonderful offenses but weak defenses
and inconsistent goaltending. But both defenses shored up in the playoffs, and
both goalies were wonderful in leading their teams to the Cup. Mario Lemieux
had 31 points in 16 games while Adirondack's Mike Sillinger had 28 points in 15
games; Sillinger could easily have been named playoff MVP as well.

St John's and Adirondack went a combined 17-2 on the road in the playoffs but
only 10-8 at home. Before the finals started, the Wings were 6-0 at home in the
playoffs while St John's was 4-1.

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Bri Farenell				CONGRATS TO 1992 CALDER CUP  
Clarkson '95					CHAMPIONS
farenebt@craft.camp.clarkson.edu  	  THE ADIRONDACK RED WINGS
rec.sport.hockey's AHL contact	      ALSO: 1981, 1986 AND 1989 CHAMPS
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