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Player of the Week (Mar. 22): Net-mate Jean-Sebastien Giguere went for the dramatics, but Tyler Moss got the award. Moss was 3-0-0 with a 2.00 GAA and .944 save percentage as the Flames won three road games during the week. Moss has a personal unbeaten streak of ten games in progress and ranks fourth in the league in GAA and second in save percentage - behind Giguere. Not bad for a guy dumped by the Lightning because they thought he couldn't play.

Player of the Week (Mar. 29): The Philadelphia Phantoms were setting records last week but it was Mike Maneluk who took the honors. Maneluk had six goals and an assist in the Phantoms' four games, to include a game-tying goal in the final seconds against Hamilton and a hat trick against Rochester. He also had a three-point night against Cincinnati, a team he's familiar with - Maneluk played for the Baltimore Bandits and the Worcester IceCats prior to joining the Phantoms at the start of the season.

Insurance Player for March: A familiar sounding name - Mike Maneluk. The Phantom picked up extra hardware to go with his Player of the Week award, sharing the Insurance Player Award with Hartford's Christian Dube. Both players were +11 in 13 games during the month of March. The overall race is going down to the wire, as Saint John defenseman Ryan Bast leads with a +34 rating and River Rat John Madden is just behind him with a +33, although Madden has played three fewer games. The overall award will be given at the season's conclusion.

Follow Throughs: When last we saw the Flames' Jean-Sebastien Giguere, he was being carted to the emergency room in Albany following the Flames' 3-1 loss. Turns out Giguere lost 19 pounds during the game - and he doesn't have any weight he can afford to lose. Giguere remained sufficiently ill that he was placed on the injured list and hasn't played since, but the Flames replaced him with their ninth goaltender of the season, assigning 1997 draft pick Evan Lindsay to Saint John.

Jean-Sebastien Giguere by Tricia McMillan

Then there was the brawl of the century between Rochester and Hamilton. The suspensions and penalties came thick and furious after league review of the tapes. The Amerks' Scott Metcalfe received an automatic one-game suspension for picking up his third instigating penalty of the year. The Amerks' Rumun Ndur (who was recalled to Buffalo after the game) was suspended six games and Dan Frawley three for leaving the bench to join the altercation at 19:57 of the third period. Other players earning suspensions include Alex Vasilevskii, Terran Sandwith, and Dennis Bonvie. Vaclav Varada, who was also recalled by Buffalo after the game, was NOT suspended for his slash that severed the end of Sean Brown's left pinky - the slash was one-handed and the officials agreed there was no intent to injure behind it. Brown will be out a minimum of two weeks.

Capital Infusion: Despite bankruptcy, lawsuits and the ever-dependable poor attendance, the River Rats may yet stay in Albany - if the U.S. Bankruptcy Court will allow.

GE executive Walter L. Robb announced his intent to buy a 20- percent stake in the Rats for $300,000, with the purpose of keeping the team sufficiently financially grounded to stay in town. More specifically, majority owner Albert W. Lawrence is under Chapter 11 - Reorganization bankruptcy protection and Capital District Sports (the corporation which encompasses the River Rats) are one of his few assets. The Rats are in default of payments owed to the New Jersey Devils and Lawrence's court-forced sale of stock in the team was intended to bring in the cash necessary to pay off the Devils and keep the Rats out of the bankruptcy claim.

But then Joseph J. O'Hara, who used to own minor league basketball and football teams in Albany, offered to pay more than the 300K Robb was offering provided O'Hara could also purchase, at a minimum, 74 of Lawrence's 85 shares of the team. If O'Hara was able to buy at least that many of Lawrence's shares (and possibly the remaining Lawrence shares and the 15 owned by Ned Harkness) O'Hara would become the 'super-majority' owner of the team and the Rats would be excluded from Lawrence's bankruptcy filing and at the same time owned by someone committed to keeping the team in Albany.

O'Hara's offer would be over $1 million, but he has stated unequivocably he won't do the deal unless he becomes majority owner. The Bankruptcy Court was expected to review the whole thing on April 6 and make a judgment shortly thereafter, a decision which should determine the Rats' fate for at least the balance of the century.

And oh yeah - the team still faces a lawsuit from their previous stop in Troy, New York, regarding the recoupment of defaulted loans made to the team by the city's administration.

Top of the List: That other hockey publication put out their list of the top 50 prospects (with some really questionable definitions of 'prospect') and 17 of the players appearing on the list are also appearing or have appeared on an AHL team near you. Eight of them also appeared in the AHL All-Star Game. They are as follows:

RANK   PLAYER, TEAM
 5     Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Saint John 
 6     Brendan Morrison, Albany 
 8     Marc Denis, Hershey 
10     Zdeno Chara, Kentucky 
12     Erik  Rasmussen, Rochester 
13     Robert Dome, Syracuse 
19     Jose Theodore, Fredericton
28     Cameron Mann, Providence
31     Daniel Briere, Springfield 
33     Jason Doig, Springfield 
35     Oleg Kvasha, New Haven
38     Brian Boucher, Philadelphia
41     Donald MacLean, Fredericton
42     Marc Savard, Hartford 
43     Nolan Baumgartner, Portland
44     Alexandre Volchkov, Portland 
50     Josef Marha, Hershey (since traded to Anaheim)

Pack the House: It took them one game longer than anticipated, but the Rochester Americans topped the eight-million mark in attendance on March 25 against Philadelphia. The Amerks needed 42 seasons to reach the mark, not bad considering the arena isn't a big one. Worcester, St. John's and Albany all reached the one-million mark this season, with Worcester needing just four seasons to pull it off. The league continues on a pace to top four million for the first time.

March 28 saw the Kentucky Thoroughblades become only the third AHL team to top the 300,000-attendance mark in their first two seasons of existence. Philadelphia did it, as did Providence several years back. Only nine teams have ever gone over the 300,000 and only two have ever been over 400,000. Speaking of Philadelphia, the Phantoms became only the second AHL team to top 400,000 in total attendance for a season and set a new single season attendance record on April 1 as 9,641 attended the matchup with Hamilton, bringing Philadelphia's attendance up to 433,720 and over the 71-72 Boston Braves record of 425,900. Advance ticket sales indicate the Phantoms will easily break the Braves' average attendance record as well; the Phantoms average to date 11,722, more than 500 a game over the Braves' average of 11,208.

Nolan Pratt by Tricia McMillan

Getting Set: Which brings us to everyone's favorite, Clear Day. For those unclear, AHL teams must submit a list of players (twenty skaters, two goaltender) currently on their roster to the league as their playoff rosters. The players don't actually have to physically be with the team, just be assigned there, hence many of the 'assignments' made by NHL teams were on paper only and lasted 24 hours. The teams are allowed 'injury alternates' after the playoffs begin and may add free agents from college and juniors as well as juniors on reserve to NHL teams more or less at will once the player becomes available. Many NHL teams made moves to give their AHL affiliates some help in the playoffs. NHL teams not expecting to make the playoffs made the majority of moves, with Daniil Markov, Marc Savard, Vladimir Vorobiev, Dan Cloutier, Nolan Pratt, Bates Battaglia, Peter Worrell and Steve Washburn as some of the more notable assignees. Most significant may be the moves made by a team that is going to the playoffs - Washington. The Capitals assigned Jaroslav Svejkovsky and Andrew Brunette to the Pirates, instantly elevating the Pirates' playoff aspirations. A complete list of playoff rosters follows at the end of this article, courtesy of the Saint John Times Globe.

All the Right Moves?: Even the AHL got into the action at the NHL trading deadline, as the Calgary Flames obliged Saint John and made a trade with the IHL. Saint John had wanted to trade veteran players Sami Helenius, Paxton Schulte and Keith McCambridge to the IHL for some time (and Helenius had requested a trade), but Calgary had to make the move and they did at the deadline, acquiring defensemen Steve Bancroft and Justin Kurtz from the Las Vegas Thunder to bolster the young Flames' lineup for the playoffs. Calgary also sent Todd Hlushko, Hnat Domenichelli and Jim Dowd back to Saint John to make them eligible for the AHL playoffs, although only Hlushko was sent to Saint John physically.

Easy Does It: Plenty of other moves were made as well: the simplest one in outright form was Hershey swapping Bobby House for Syracuse's Serge Aubin, a move cleared by both the NHL teams involved. It does mean House is now on his fourth team of the season, having started with Albany and playing for IHL Quebec as well.

Duane Joyce by Tricia McMillan

A Little More Complicated: Not so simple were the stunts involving Adirondack and Rochester. The Detroit Red Wings pulled off a trade with IHL Detroit Vipers, sending veterans Duane Joyce and Sylvain Cloutier to the Vipers in exchange for former River Rat Rob Pattison and defenseman Tim Murray. Yes, the same Tim Murray that the Vipers had already traded to Rochester. One thing Jody Gage hadn't been able to do in the trade was obtain Murray's overall rights, which remained with the Vipers and made it possible for them to trade him regardless of the Amerks' feelings on the matter. Thus the Amerks traded Patrice Tardif and got squat. Squat is also what Duane Joyce thought of this move, as he thought he had a verbal agreement with Adirondack management that he would not be traded during the season and had moved his family to Glens Falls. Joyce initially didn't report to Detroit and planned to retire, but opted to report when it became evident a suspension would end his health insurance.

Paper Trail: The departure of Murray along with callups and suspensions left the Amerks short of players. They obtained overage junior Shane Kenny from UHL Port Huron (that would be the same Shane Kenny that Philadelphia drafted in the second round, 1995, and couldn't sign; also the same Shane Kenny who was booted off two different OHL teams for his attitude problem) and then pulled off a remarkably complicated chain of events which eventually brought them Mike Harder, who had been playing for the Springfield Falcons. Harder was property of the IHL Milwaukee Admirals, who had loaned him to Springfield. Milwaukee recalled Harder and traded him to the IHL Grand Rapids Griffins, who then traded Harder to Rochester in exchange for playoff rights to the Amerks' Mike Casselman, who had been obtained in an earlier swap with IHL Cincinnati. Follow that? By the way, Casselman stays with Rochester until their season is over, then moves to Grand Rapids.

Musical Blades: But no AHL team was as hard hit by the trading deadline as the Kentucky Thoroughblades, who were devasted from the goal net to the blue line. San Jose traded defenseman Rich Brennan to New York for Jason Muzzatti, which gave the T-Blades three goaltenders. Not good. So San Jose agreed to 'loan' John Nabokov to New York to play in Hartford.

But Jamie Ram wasn't happy about sharing the net with Muzzatti and asked to be moved, and the Sharks obliged him by loaning him to the IHL's Utah Grizzlies for the balance of the season and cancelling Nabokov's loan.

Marko Makinen by Tricia McMillan

The Islanders had already recalled Jason Strudwick, Jason Holland, Zdeno Chara, Steve Webb and Sean Haggerty from Kentucky, and after the deadline they also recalled defenseman Vladimir Chebaturkin and enforcer Ray Schultz, as Strudwick and Holland were traded. Along with Brennan's departure, that left the T-Blades with four defensemen (Peter Allen, Alex Boikov, Jason Widmer and Andy Sutton) and Sutton has less than a half dozen games' professional experience, so they recalled Marko Makinen, Terry Lindgren and Yuri Krivohija from the ECHL and switched Fredrik Oduya from wing to defense.

Then the Islanders loaned Sean Haggerty back to Kentucky - and recalled him again before he had a chance to report. The Isles finally relented and sent Haggerty, Chebaturkin, Steve Webb and Jeff Libby back to Kentucky. The T-Blades were already reeling from their 2-13-1 record in March and probably won't get their bearings back this season.

Snack Size: The Philadelphia Phantoms became the second AHL team to win a division title in their first two years of existence as they clinched the Mid-Atlantic Division again. The Maine Mariners are the only other team to do it...

The Phantoms' Mike Maneluk gained them a point Mar. 24 when he scored the tying goal against Hamilton with 46 seconds remaining in the game...

Red Wings defenseman Duane Joyce had 18 points in his first 61 games, then nine points in four games...

Adirondack's defense is shot at present, with their top four defensemen injured or recalled and rookies in goal. The offense has made up for it, topping the four-goal marker in four straight games when they'd only managed it four times all season...

Bates Battaglia by Kevin Fischer

Albany's nine goals against Adirondack Mar. 21 tied a franchise high, as did the 14 combined goals in the game...

The Hamilton Bulldogs were assessed 368 penalty minutes and 30 penalty kills in two games...

The new longest point streak belongs to the Syracuse Crunch's Brandon Convery, who has a 12-game, 23-point streak going. The streak started when Convery played for St. John's...

Cincinnati Mighty Ducks center Bob Wren has 30 multi-point games on the season...

The Hershey Bears clinched a playoff spot for the 51st time in 60 years...

Philadelphia Phantoms defenseman Jamie Heward leads the AHL's blueliners in just about everything - points (58), assists (42), second in goals (16) and second in plus/minus (+23)...

One of the league's hot teams is Beast of New Haven, who have gotten at least one point in 16 of their last 20 games...

Providence's Joel Prpic has set the franchise record for single season short-handed goals, with five. The career mark in Providence is six...

The Worcester IceCats lost in Providence Mar. 21, their first loss there in two and half years after 11 straight wins...

Smoking hot is Portland Pirates goaltender Martin Brochu, who has a .74 GAA and .974 save percentage in his last five games, all wins. He also has four shutouts...

The Saint John Flames have yet to lose when Eric Landry gets a point - heck, they've had only two ties when he scores, along with 21 wins...

Saint John's Ladislav Kohn took over the top spot on the Flames' career assists list...

The St. John's Maple Leafs have now played in 22 overtime games and have 16 ties on their records. The AHL records for a season are 24 and 17, set last season by Portland and Albany, respectively...

The Hershey Bears took advantage of a dismantled Kentucky team Mar. 25, stomping the T-Blades 6-0 and earning Marc Denis his first professional shutout...

Hockey may be catching on in Lexington, Kentucky, but basketball still rules. The Mar. 28 Hershey/Kentucky game had its time changed from 7:30 to 2:00 so everybody could watch the Kentucky/Stanford Final Four game. The basketball game was shown for free at the Rupp Arena for remaining hockey fans...

Christian Dube has had a lot of trouble scoring goals, as nearly all of his points have been assists. He took a step to rectifying that Mar. 27, notching his first professional hat trick and another assist as well against Providence...

Syracuse served some notice to probable first-round opponents Hamilton Mar. 27, scoring four goals in the third period to stomp the Bulldogs 7-1...

How about two goals in the last 15 seconds of a game? Hershey held a 1-0 lead on Kentucky with 15 seconds remaining, but Alex Korolyuk tied the game. Then newcomer Serge Aubin scored the game-winner for Hershey with one second remaining in regulation...

In another nail-biting finish, Steven King scored the tying goal with 15 seconds left and scored the game-winner halfway through overtime against Albany...

Doug Bonner has spent the season in the ECHL but showed up in St. John's just in time for his first AHL shutout, stopping 39 Portland shots Mar. 27...

New Haven's Craig Ferguson and Springfield's Scott Levins each scored in the first 24 seconds of the third period Mar. 27, for a rocking start...

Hershey picked up at least a point in ten of 11 games, going 8-1-1-1...

Kentucky lost 11 straight games, a franchise record...

Hershey and Syracuse finally played the delayed Dec. 30 game on March 24. Syracuse wishes they didn't have to play it at all, as Rob Shearer had a hat trick and Christian Matte had a five-point night on the way to a 7-3 win...

Dave Roche had two goals and Brian Bonin had four points as Syracuse knocked off Providence 5-2 Mar. 28...

The Portland Pirates took down Springfield, 2-1, on Mar. 29 on a 47 save performance from Mike O'Neill. It was Springfield's first loss since Mar. 5...

Jason Strudwick by Tricia McMillan

Albany scored five unanswered goals, including two just seconds apart, on their way to dropping the Phantoms Mar. 29...

Syacuse won their third straight game over probable playoff opponent Hamilton, this time getting the game-winner from Brian Bonin with 31 seconds left in regulation to win 2-1 on Mar. 29...

The Crunch have set franchise records for points in a season (75) and wins (33)...

The Battle of New Brunswick resumed March 30 and Fredricton took this one from Saint John emphatically, with a 50-save shutout from Jose Theodore...

The Wolfpack allowed the baby Leafs a measly 15 shots on goal en route to a 6-2 romp on Mar. 31...

Albany's Sasha Lakovic and Hershey's Mike McHugh were suspended two and one game each, respectively, for attempt-to-injure match penalties received in games on Mar. 29. Albany's Eric Bertrand was also suspended one game for continuing a fight after linesmen had broken it up and St. John's Shawn Thornton was suspended one game for accumulation of game misconducts...

Guy Lehoux has returned to the St. John's Maple Leafs after playing this season in the German Elite League...

Brendan Morrison became the AHL's first five-goals-in-one-game scorer of the season when he scored all five of Albany's goals against Hartford April 1. He is now two goals short of Bobby House's franchise record for goals and eight shy of House's points record, but was recalled to New Jersey...

Corey Hirsch became the tenth goaltender in the modern AHL to post 100 wins on April 1, taking down Cincinnati 4-2 with a little help from Jan Hrdina's two goals in 43 seconds...

Some control problems - referee Mike Leggo called 182 penalty minutes between Worcester and St. John's, to include 12 majors; and ref Bernie DeGrace called 115 minutes between Portland and Saint John to include several game misconducts and 20 power plays, both games occurring on April 1...

Providence's Aaron Downey set a new franchise record for penalty minutes, with his totals up to 374 after a tilt with New Haven. Kevin Sawyer held the old record of 367...

The Worcester IceCats have a .585 winning percentage if there's a fight in the game, .326 without the rough stuff. The IceCats are 6-2-1 if four or more majors are called in the game. Hmmm...

Kentucky's Jason Muzzatti gave Rochester's Mike Harder a Christmas present way early - an errant clearing attempt in front of the net with 90 seconds left in the game. Harder didn't miss the open net and the teams tied...

Portland's Trevor Halvorson notched his first AHL hat trick and all three goals were set up by Andrew Brunette as the Pirates thumped Fredricton 5-1 on April 2...

Brunette did it again two nights later, setting up three goals as the Pirates took down Providence 4-2 on April 4...

Stacey Roest had two goals for Adirondack in their 4-2 win over Hershey April 1. Roest's goals were the only ones in the game not on the power play...

Jason Holland hasn't lost any time impressing the Rochester Americans with four points in his first three games following a trade with the Islanders...

Cincinnati's Bob 'Disco Duck' Wren is a two-way forward - but not the way you might think. Wren is in the league's top five in scoring, but is also up there on the penalty minute chart with 145...

The Hershey Bears allowed more than two goals in only one of their 13 games in March, going 9-2-1-1 for the month...

The Kentucky Thoroughblades are the only team in the AHL with three 30-goal men and probably won't get company in the category. Steve Guolla, Alexei Yegorov and Sean Haggerty have all reached that mark...

Hartford is the only AHL team with three goalies to have double digits in the win column. Robb Stauber, Dan Cloutier and the just-departed Jason Muzzatti all had at least 11 wins...

Hartford and Springfield are the only AHL teams to have won at least 20 games on the road...

There are several AHL players way up there in penalty minutes, but New Haven's Peter Worrell is the only one with offense as well - 309 PiMs and 27 points as of April 1...

The Springfield Falcons put together a nine game winning streak and have tied the club record of 42 wins for a season...

New guy Martin Gendron has done the job for the Fredericton Canadiens, with four points in his first three games...

Former road kill Portland has turned things around on the road, winning four straight and going unbeaten in seven straight road games...

The Saint John Flames will set a new record for fewest goals allowed by a team in a season barring a total disaster in April. Through March the Flames had allowed 183 goals; the record is 215...

Another new guy making his point(s) is St. John's Lonny Bohonos, with 15 points and seven goals in his first nine games...

When the baby Leafs shut out Portland Mar. 28, it was the first time in franchise history St. John's had won a game in the Cumberland County Civic Center...

Almost, but not quite. Things got so antsy during overtime of Hamilton and Kentucky's 2-2 draw April 3 that goaltenders Steve Passmore and Jason Muzzatti tried to have at it before the ref intervened. This was the game where the goals were closer to each other than usual...

How bad was Providence this year? One more loss and it's the worst season they've ever had in Providence, tying the record for losses set in 1976-77 by the Reds. The Bruins have four more games to set the new record. If the Bruins don't win either of their remaining home games, they will dip below the 43-44 Reds for the worst home record in city history...

The AHL has created the Yanick Dupre Memorial Award to be given at the end of the season. The award will be equivalent to the NHL's King Clancy Trophy and given to players for community service...

The AHL also ordered all teams to raise ticket prices for the playoffs at least one dollar. The majority of teams only raised it one dollar...

Hershey's Brad Larson scored twice in the first three minutes of the Bears' April 4 tilt with Rochester...

David Roberts assisted on all of the Crunch's goals in their 3-2 win over Adirondack April 4...

The Portland Pirates added several players from ECHL Louisville and Columbus, bringing the total number of players used by Portland this season to a franchise record 48...

New Haven's Kevin Brown has a nine-game point streak and five- game assist streak going...

Cincinnati goaltender Chris Mason stopped 46 of 47 Hartford shots to earn a 1-1 tie April 5. Phillippe DeRouville got the tie for Hartford in his first start for them...

Think concussions have overtaken the NHL? The AHL too. Four Kentucky Thoroughblades missed their April 5 game with Hamilton due to concussions: Warren Luhning, Andy Sutton, Steve Webb and Terry Lindren...

Fans of the Beast's Peter Worrell can check out 'Worrell's Haven', a Web Page dedicated entirely to Worrell. Http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Loge/4318...

Saint John's Marty Murray returned from a serious hand injury to score two goals in the first period of his first game back against Fredricton...

Syracuse's Dave Roche received a one-game suspension for too many game misconducts, sat out the game, and got another game misconduct in his first game back. This time he'll be suspended at least two games...

Worcester's Michal Handzus had a four-point night against Providence April 5, with two goals and two assists in the 6-4 win. Providence's Jean-Yves Roy not only had three points, he had ten shots on goal in the same game...

CLEAR DAY ROSTERS

Adirondack Red Wings - Goaltenders: Norm Maracle, David Arsenault. Skaters: Mike McBain, Tim Murray, Maxim Kuznetsov, Sean Gillam, Joe Coleman, Brandon Smith, Pavel Kubina, Yan Golubovsky, Xavier Delisle, Stacy Roest, BJ Young, Allan Egeland, David Matsos, Per Eklund, Phil Audet, Martin Laitre, Darryl LaPlante, Rob Pattison, Corey Spring, Paul Brosseau.

Albany River Rats - Goaltenders: Peter Sidorkiewicz, Rich Shulmistra. Skaters: Dan Ratushny, Sergei Vyshedevich, Geordie Kinnear, Colin White, Vlastimil Kroupa, Bryan Helmer, Bryan Muir, Sasha Lakovic, Brendan Morrison, Richard Rochefort, John Madden, Jiri Bicek, Jeff Williams, Jay Pandolfo, Vadim Sharifijanov, Steve Brule, Eric Bertrand, Rob Skrlac, Zdenek Skorepa, Dody Wood.

Josef Marha by Tricia McMillan

Cincinnati Mighty Ducks - Goaltenders: Chris Mason, Blaine Russell. Skaters: Jeff Winter, Byron Briske, Marc Moro, Mike Crowley, Nikolai Tsulygin, Lloyd Shaw, Chris Tok, Dan Trebil, Bob Wren, Clint Collins, Craig Reichert, Igor Nikulin, Peter Leboutillier, Eric Lecompte, Espen Knutsen, Mike Pomichter, Richard Park, Barry Nieckar, Josef Marha.

Fredericton Canadiens - Goaltenders: Jose Theodore, Tomas Vokoun. Skaters: Eric Belanger, Brad Brown, Brett Clark, Dion Darling, Jonathan Delisle, Gerry Fleming, Martin Gendron, Josh Green, Francois Groleau, Miroslav Guren, Eric Houde, Matt Higgins, Alexei Lojkin, Donald MacLean, Jan Nemecek, Stephane Robidas, Boyd Olson, Terry Ryan, Chris Schmidt, Roman Vopat.

Hamilton Bulldogs - Goaltenders: J.F. Labbe, Steve Passmore. Skaters: Ladislav Benysek, Sean Brown, Mathieu Descoteaux, Scott Ferguson, Craig Millar, Terran Sandwith, Alexander Zhurik, Dennis Bonvie, Jason Bowen, Jeff Daw, Boyd Devereaux, Doug Friedman, Joe Hulbig, Mark Kolesar, Dan LaCouture, Georges Laraque, Barrie Moore, Steve Potvin, Mike Watt.

Hartford Wolf Pack: - Goaltenders: Dan Cloutier, Robb Stauber. Skaters: Brent Thompson, Lee Sorochan, Adam Smith, Ron Sundin, Maxin Galanov, Rich Brennan, Ed Campbell, Marc Savard, Peter Ferraro, Vladimir Vorobiev, Daniel Goneau, Christian Dube, Pierre Sevigny, Ken Gernander, Derek Armstrong, Brad Smyth, PJ Stock, Johan Lindbom, Sylvain Blouin, Todd Hall.

Hershey Bears - Goaltenders: Petr Franek, Marc Denis. Skaters: Brian Corcoran, Dan Smith, Patrick Traverse, Pascal Trepanier, Serge Aubin, Peter Ambroziak, Yves Sarault, Rob Shearer, Mitch Lamoureaux, Cory Banika, Steve Lingren, Mike Gaul, Hugues Gervais, Ville Niemenen, Christian Matte, Wade Belak, Jeff Sirkka, Mike McHugh, Brad Larsen, Eric Veilleux.

Kentucky Thoroughblades - Goaltenders: John Nabokov, Jason Muzzatti. Skaters: Jason Widmer, Ray Schultz, Peter Allen, Zdeno Chara, Alexander Boikov, Vladimir Chebaturkin, Jeff Libby, Alexei Yegorov, Steve Guolla, Chad Penney, Sean Haggerty, Fred Knipscheer, Alexander Korolyuk, Fredrik Oduya, Peter Roed, Brendan Yarema, Warren Luhning, Steve Webb, Jarrod Skalde, Andy Sutton.

Jason Widmer by Tricia McMillan

New Haven - Goaltenders: Mike Fountain, Todd MacDonald. Skaters: Nolan Pratt, John Jakopin, Ashlin Halfnight, Mike Rucinski, Steve Halko, Filip Kuba, Peter Worrell, Ryan Johnson, Craig Ferguson, Ian MacNeil, Byron Ritchie, Bates Battaglia, Oleg Kvasha, Ashley Buckberger, Steve Washburn, Herbert Vasilijevs, Jeff Daniels, Dwayne Hay, Kevin Brown, David Nemirovsky.

Philadelphia Phantoms - Goaltenders: Neil Little, Brian Boucher. Skaters: Andy Delmore, Jamie Heward, Jeff Lank, Dave MacIssac, Jeff Staples, John Stevens, Travis Van Tighem, Frank Bialowas, Garrett Burnett, Martin Cerven, Bruce Coles, Craig Darby, Paul Healey, Mike Maneluk, Shawn McCosh, Jim Montgomery, Sean O'Brien, Andre Payette, Brian Wesenberg, Peter White.

Portland Pirates - Goaltenders: Martin Brochu, Mike O'Neill. Skaters: Steve Poapst, Stu Malgunas, Nolan Baumgartner, Rick Mrozik, Patrick Boileau, David Harlock, Alexandre Volchkov, Kent Hulst, Jan Benda, Trevor Halverson, Ryan Mulhern, Brad Church, Benoit Gratton, Rick Kowalsky, Kevin Kaminski, Mark Major, Andrew Brunette, Jaroslav Svejkovsky.

Providence Bruins - Goaltenders: John Grahame, Olie Sundstrom. Skaters: Elias Abrahamsson, Bill Armstrong, Anders Myrvold, Barry Richter, Jon Rohloff, Yevgeny Shaldybin, Mattias Timander, Shawn Bates, Kimbi Daniels, Aaron Downey, Jay Henderson, Cameron Mann, Kirk Nielson, Tyler Prosopsky, Joel Prpic, Randy Robitaille, Ed Ronan, Jean-Yves Roy, John Varga.

Rochester Americans - Goaltenders: Mike Bales, Martin Biron. Skaters: J-L Grand-Pierre, Jason Holland, Mike Hurlbut, Dean Melanson, Rumun Ndur, Shayne Wright, Craig Charron, Mike Harder, Erik Rasmussen, Derek Wood, Matt Davidson, Dan Frawley, Dane Jackson, Steve King, Mike Casselman, Randy Burridge, Denis Hamel, Scott Metcalfe, Peter Vandermeer, Vaclav Varada.

Rumun Ndur by Tricia McMillan

Springfield Falcons - Goaltenders: Scott Langkow, Sylvain Daigle. Skaters: Jason Doig, Sean Gagnon, Richard Lintner, Radoslav Suchy, Dan Focht, Brad Tiley, Ted Crowley, Deron Quint, Daniel Briere, Brad Isbister, Scott Levins, Jason Morgan, Jeff Shevalier, Mike Maurice, Tavis Hansen, Rhett Gordon, Trevor Letowski, Rob Murray, Jocelyn Lemieux, Brian Sullivan.

St. John's Maple Leafs - Goaltenders: Marcel Cousineau, Francis Larivee. Skaters: DJ Smith, Nathan Dempsey, Jeff Ware, Yannick Tremblay, Greg Smyth, Daniil Markov, David Cooper, Clayton Norris, Aaron Brand, Zdenek Nedved, Warren Norris, Kevyn Adams, Lonny Bohonos, Shawn Carter, Ryan Pepperall, Shawn Thornton, Todd Gillingham, Mark Deyell, Jason Podollan, Jason Sessa.

Syracuse Crunch - Goaltenders: Corey Hirsch, Tim Keyes. Skaters: Dennis Pinfold, Mark Wotton, Sven Butenschon, Brent Sopel, Chad Allan, Chris McAllister, Jason Strudwick, Brian Bonin, Darren Sinclair, Lubomir Vaic, Bobby House, Dave Roche, Tyson Nash, Peter Schaefer, Dave Roberts, Alex Stojanov, Domenic Pittis, Jan Hrdina, Brandon Convery, Bert Robertsson.

Worcester IceCats - Goaltenders: Frederic Cassivi, Brent Johnson. Skaters: Jason Zent, Lubos Bartecko, Ivan Ciernik, Reed Low, Michal Handzus, Robert Petrovicky, Stephane Roy, Bob Lachance, Mike Prokopec, Chris Kenady, Jamal Mayers, Shayne Toporowski, Ricard Persson, Libor Zabransky, Bryce Salvador, Derek Diener, Rory Fitzpatrick, Nick Naumenko, Terry Virtue, Justin Hocking.

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