Press Release
Toronto, ON – The Ontario Hockey League today announced that OHL
Scoring Champion Vince Trocheck of the Plymouth Whalers is the OHL
Player of the Week for the final week of the 2012-13 regular season
ending March 17, after leading the league with eight points in three
games scoring two goals and six assists with a plus-minus rating of
plus-5.
Trocheck earns the weekly honour for the second time this season and
closed out the year in dramatic fashion by recording three assists
Sunday night against the Windsor Spitfires to overtake the scoring lead
with 109 points ahead of Sarnia Sting forward Charles Sarault who
finished with 108. Trocheck’s third assist came on the power play with
just 2:36 to play and helped the Whalers to a 4-0 victory. One day
earlier, Trocheck reached the 50-goal milestone becoming just the second
player in the league this season to do so following the Sting’s Reid
Boucher who finished the season with 62. He is also the first Whaler in
10 years to score 50 goals following Chad LaRose who netted 61 in
2002-03. Trocheck combined his milestone goal on Saturday with an
assist as part of a 4-3 overtime win over the Spitfires. His week also
included a goal and two assists on Wednesday as second star of an 8-0
win over the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds.
Trocheck, a 19-year-old from Pittsburgh, PA, is playing in his fourth
OHL season and captured the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy as Top Scorer
in the OHL with 50 goals and 59 assists for 109 points in 63 games. The
Florida Panthers prospect was selected in the third round of the 2011
NHL Draft and won gold with the United States at the 2013 World Junior
Championship. Trocheck is the first member of the Whalers to win the
scoring title outright as former Whaler Tyler Seguin shared the honour
with Taylor Hall of the Windsor Spitfires with 106 points each in
2010-11. Trocheck is also just the third American to win the scoring
title following Patrick Kane (2007) and Rob Schremp (2006) of the London
Knights.
Also considered for the Player of the Week award were Brendan Gaunce
of the Belleville Bulls and Matt MacLeod of the Brampton Battalion who
each scored five goals and one assist for six point in four games
played. In goal, the Whalers’ Matt Mahalak posted two shutout victories
in two starts with a perfect goals-against-average of 0.00 and save
percentage of 1.000.
(Nathan can be reached at nathanfournier@mainehockeyjournal.com)
Monday, March 18, 2013
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