2010-11 HERSHEY BEARS® Media Guide & Record Book Hershey Bears Hockey Club Calder cup Champions 2009-2010 11-Time Calder Cup Champions Bears_Print_Cover.indd 1 10/7/10 6:39 PM Bears_Print_Cover.indd 2 10/7/10 6:39 PM TABLE OF CONTENTS BEARS Management . .2-8 Player Biographies . .9-37 HERSHEY BEARS Year-by-Year Results and Statistics . .38-109 HERSHEY BEARS Alumni List . .110-120 This date in BEARS History . .121-136 Year-by-Year Leaders . .137-138 All-Time Games Played/All-Time Penalty Shots . .139-140 All-Time Scoring . .141 All-Time Goals/All-Time Assists . .142 All-Time Defenseman Scoring . .143 All-Time Penalty Minutes . .144 All-Time Goalie Games . .145 All-Time Goalie Wins/Shutouts . .146 All-Time Single Season Point Totals . .147 All-Time Defenseman and Rookie Scoring . .148 40-Plus Goal Seasons/AHL Scoring Leaders . .149 AHL Goal Leaders/Goalie Games Played/Special Teams . .150 All-Time Playoff Overtime Games . .151-162 All-Time HERSHEY Coaches . .153 Team Season Records . .154-157 Goal/Assist/Point Records . .158-160 Special Teams Records . .161-162 Shots on Goal Records . .163 BEARS Goaltending Records . .164 Miscellaneous Records . .165-167 All-Time Playoff Records . .168-171 HERSHEY AHL Award Winners . .172 HERSHEY Team Award Winners . .173 BEARS Attendance Records . .174 All-Time HERSHEY NHL Affiliates . .175 BEARS All-Time Playoff Game Results . .176-194 2010-2011 HERSHEY BEARS Schedule . .Inside Back Cover The HERSHEY BEARS Media Guide is published annually by the HERSHEY BEARS Hockey Club. Written by John Walton, Senior Manager of Communications and Jess Mikula. Edited by John Walton, Julie Sensenderfer, Jess Mikula and Maria Stouffer. Photography by Just Sports Photography, Ron Marcotte, the American Hockey League, and the Harrisburg Patriot-News. Statistics are current as of October 7, 2010, and are a courtesy of the National Hockey League Guide and Record Book, and HockeyDB.com. Special thanks to Jason Chaimovitch, AJ Atchue, the PR Directors of the American Hockey League, Tim Leone, Dave Sottile, Dan Sernoffsky, Janet Jaeger, and Don Scott. 1 HERSHEY ENTERTAINMENT AND RESORTS TED J. KLEISNER, President and Chief Executive Officer Ted J. Kleisner is President and CEO of Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company. Prior to his being named President/CEO, Mr. Kleisner was President and CEO of the Greenbrier Resort and Club Management Company and President & Managing Director of The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. A third generation hotelier, Ted graduated with a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of Denver School of Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism Management. He started his hotel career in 1967 with Albert Pick Hotels Corporation in Chicago, Illinois. He then joined Hilton Hotels Corporation and moved through general management positions in Ohio, Missouri, Georgia, and Texas. Ted began his association with The Greenbrier in 1980 as Director of Operations. In 1994 The Greenbrier Resort and Club Management Company developed The Greenbrier Golf Resort & Club in Shirakawa, Japan, through a license and technical services agreement. In 1999, following the sale of the Grand Teton Lodge Company to Vail Resorts, Ted oversaw a joint venture (owned 80% by the management company) to develop 6,000 acres of The Greenbriers extensive estate. Following the success of the development companys first real estate venture, Ted and joint venture partners expanded into club management and real estate development in the United States, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Islands, and Bermuda. Additionally, Ted expanded the company into the resort retail business with the founding of Station A Retail Management. Station A now owns and operates 35 shops at The Greenbrier and provides retail consulting to other resorts and destinations including The Broadmoor, the Boca Raton Resort & Club, Amelia Island, and Anheuser Buschs Kings Mill Resort. Unique to Teds hospitality career has been his relationship with the federal government. While providing strategic leadership, management oversight, and direction to The Greenbrier and all properties managed by The Greenbriers Resort and Club Management Company, Ted also had 10 years of oversight responsibility for a top-secret federal government project. “Project Greek Island” was a 112,000 square- foot nuclear bomb shelter constructed 70-feet beneath The Greenbriers West Virginia Wing. The shelters purpose was to serve as the relocation site for members of the U. S. House of Representatives, Senate, Supreme Court, and associated staff and dependents in the event of nuclear war. In a broader context, Project Greek Island was to guarantee the survival of the legislative and judicial branches of the U. S. govern- ment, and thus maintain the country as a constitutional republic with the freedoms it guarantees. The Greenbrier held title to the facility through an agreement with the government and the site was maintained and operated by the infrastructure and employees of The Greenbrier. Teds responsibility, specified in an unrecorded and classified lease, was to provide and guarantee all maintenance and operating capabilities of the facility, to meet regularly with government officials to establish and implement operating and capital budgets, and to work with a handful of federal workers whose responsibility was to covertly oversee the care and 24/7 functionality of the site, all of which required that Ted maintain a Top Secret level security clearance from the Department of Defense. Overtly, these federal employees worked as audio- visual specialists for The Greenbrier. The facility was closed and declassified in 1995. Ted is also a member of the Confrerie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs, the Society of Bacchus and is the only honorary member of The Gridiron Club of Washington DC, Washingtons oldest and most prestigious journalistic organization. He serves on, and is past Chairman of, the AH&LAs Resort Committee and is a member of its Governmental Affairs Committee. Ted also serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the University of Denver, Daniels College of Business. An avid golfer, Ted was elected in 1998 to membership in The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, Scotland. He and his wife of 35 years, Karen, reside in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. 2 HERSHEY BEARS MANAGEMENT DOUG YINGST, President and General Manager HERSHEY BEARS President/GM Doug Yingst enters his 29th season with the organization in 2010-11, after overseeing the team’s 11th Calder Cup championship last season. HERSHEY’S back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010, as well as the club’s win in 2006 have all come under Yingst’s stewardship and the team’s affiliation with the Washington Capitals. Working in tandem with Washington VP/GM George McPhee, Yingst once again brough the front line talent and necessary roster depth to central PA as the BEARS defeated the Texas Stars four games to two in the 2010 Calder Cup Finals. It marked the first time in AHL history a team rallied to win after losing the first two games of the series at home, and for Yingst, it was his fourth Calder Cup victory. The four championships tie an AHL record, jointly held by several, including Frank Mathers. The BEARS have recorded the best five-year run in American Hockey League history, winning three titles and advancing to a fourth Final appearance in 2007. With no fewer than 27 teams in the league during that time, the Chocolate and White have played hockey in June four times since 2006. For his efforts, Yingst was presented with the Thomas Ebright Award, given for outstanding service to the AHL. Yingst also claimed the James Hendy Award in 2006, presented to the outstanding executive of the year in the league. He is only one of four men in league history to win the award twice. During the current affiliation agreement with the Capitals, the BEARS posted an American Hockey League record 60 wins in 2009-10, and also won a then-franchise record 51 games in 2006-07 under current Washington head coach Bruce Boudreau. The agreement between the two franchises has not only produced many players for the NHL level, but also two members of the coaching staff that have worked closely with Yingst. Boudreau was promoted in November, 2007 to become Washington’s head coach, and Bob Woods was named the team’s assistant coach in the summer of 2009. Woods claimed the 2009 Calder Cup title, following in Boudreau’s footsteps soon after. Current head coach Mark French then won the 2010 title, the third straight coach under Yingst to win a title. Yingst has been HERSHEY’S President/GM since the 1998-99 season, and represents the club on the AHL’s Board of Governors. In 2010-11, he was named the chairman of the league’s Executive Committee, and has served previously as chairman of the AHL’s Competition and Marketing Committees. Yingst was first named HERSHEY’S general manager in 1996-97, winning the Calder Cup in his first season with new job responsibilities. From 1991-96, he was the Assistant GM/Director of Hockey Operations for the team, and from 1988-91 served as Assistant General Manager under the legendary Frank S. Mathers. Yingst began his long run in the HERSHEY organization as the sales and promotions director in 1982, and also won the AHL’s Ken McKenzie award in 1988, given annually by the AHL to the person judged to have done the most to promote his team. One of Yingst’s greatest accomplishments in hockey came in February of 2000, when his HERSHEY Jr. BEARS hockey team won the 2000 Quebec Cup in Quebec City. It was a feat repeated in February of 2009 and again in February, 2010 when the Jr. Bears repeated as Quebec Cup champions, the same two years that HERSHEY won back-to-back Calder Cup titles.