ECHL 80/200 Club Exclusive Membership

The ECHL feeds the American Hockey League which, in turn, feeds the National Hockey League. Among professional hockey leagues, the ECHL has something unique that none other has. In the League’s history, it has not one but two members of the 80/200 club.

Scoring 80 goals is a feat that has rarely been done at any level of professional hockey. The AHL has never had an 80 goal scorer. In fact, the AHL record for goals in a season is just 70 in 1988-89 by Stephan LeBeau.

The NHL has three players in the history of the league to attain the 80 goal plateau. Wayne Gretzky did it twice with 92 in 1981-82 and 87 in 1983-84. Brett Hull had 86 goals in 1990-91 and Mario Lemieux had 85 in 1988-89. It should be noted that Lemieux stands on an unreachable plateau after his 133 goal season in junior hockey playing for the Laval Voisins during the QMJHL 1983-84 season.

What makes Trevor Jobe and Bill McDougall unique is that they attained the 80 goal plateau while sitting more than 200 minutes in the penalty box.

Trevor Jobe

Jobe scored 85 goals, a league record, while sitting out 222 minutes in penalties in just 61 games during the 1992-93 season with the Nashville Knights. He added 76 assists that season for a total of 161 points, also an ECHL single season record. Trevor added 7 goals in the playoffs for a grand total of 92.

Trevor Jobe, who was a draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs, had a few good seasons afterwards but never regained the Midas touch of that magic season. He continued to play professionally until the end of the 2004-05 seasons and never played at a higher level than a handful of games in the AHL.

In the Central Hockey League in 1996-97, Jobe had a swan song season of sorts. He played 57 games in Wichita, Kansas with the Thunder and four with the Columbus Cottonmouths. He combined for 61 goals and 73 assists for 134 points. He led the CHL in goals and points and placed second in assists behind Doug Lawrence of the Tulsa Oilers who set up 100 goals over 66 games.

Bill McDougall

Bill McDougall scored 80 goals exactly in just 57 games during the 1989-90 season with the Erie Panthers. He sat out 226 minutes while adding 68 assists for a 148 point season. This was McDougall’s first season in professional hockey and his only season in the ECHL. He also spent 11 games that season with the AHL’s Adirondack Red Wings, adding another 10 goals. Add in the 6 goals he attained between the two teams in the playoffs and that made for a 96 goal season.

Bill McDougall was never drafted but did manage to play 28 games in the NHL scattered over three seasons, one each with the Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers and Tampa Bay Lightning. Not quite returning to the 80 goal plateau, McDougall had a quite successful hockey career in the North American minor leagues as well as the European elite leagues.

In 1992-93, McDougall was an integral part of the Cape Breton Oilers winning the Calder Cup as playoff champions in the American Hockey League. His 42 goals and 88 points were second best on the team during the regular season and his goal total was good enough to tie him for sixth in the league. However, Bill exploded in the playoffs for an amazing 26 goals and 26 assists for 52 points over just 16 games. The George Burnett coached Oilers downed the Rochester Americans in the finals, 4-1.

In 1993-94, his last year of pro hockey in North America, McDougall won another championship. This time, Bill was with the Atlanta Knights of the IHL. Not a team offensive leader but still a major contributor, Bill gave back more than a point per game. Atlanta won the final series in six games over the Fort Wayne Komets.

 

Idaho Steelheads Retired Numbers

The Idaho Steelheads are a relatively new franchise in the hockey world but have achieved great success in their decade and a half. The Steelheads began life in the West Coast Hockey League in 1997-98. After the demise of the WCHL, Idaho joined the ECHL for the 2003-04 season.  The Steelheads are affiliated with the Dallas Stars of the NHL and the Texas Stars of the AHL. The team plays out of the 5,000 seat CenturyLink Arena in Boise, Idaho.

The Steelheads have retired two jersey numbers to date. Number 4 is retired for Jeremy Mylamok and number 22 is retired in honour of Cal Ingraham.

Jeremy Mylymok

Mylymok played professional hockey from 1995-96 to 2005-06. The final six years of his career were spent with the Steelheads, three years in the WCHL and three in the ECHL. In his second last year with the club, Jeremy acted as player/assistant coach.

In his first year with Idaho, 2000-01, Mylymok totalled 63 points from the blue line while sitting 208 minutes in the penalty box. The Steelheads reached the WCHL finals and went the distance before bowing out to the San Diego Gulls in seven games. The Steelheads reached the finals again in 2001-02 before losing in six to the Fresno Falcons.

In the final year of the WCHL, 2002-03, Jeremy helped Idado to a first overall finish in the six team league with 52 wins and 108 points. However, the Steelheads were upset in the first round by the same Fresno Falcons from the year before. Fresno finished fourth in the WCHL during the regular season, 29 points behind Idaho.

The Steelheads were redeemed the following season, their first in the ECHL. The team took out the Florida Everblades in the finals, four games to one for their first of two Kelly Cup championships to date. It was the second pro championship for Mylymok, after winning a Turner Cup with the Chicago Wolves of the IHL in 1997-98. The Wolves beat the Detroit Vipers in seven games.

Cal Ingraham

Ingraham played the final four of his seven years of professional hockey with the Idaho Steelheads. He played pro from 1995-96 to 2001-02 with his first three years in the ECHL with the Tallahassee Sharks.

His stature was small at 5’5” and 160 lbs. but his scoring ability was large. In his four years with Idaho, Ingraham scored 175 goals and assisted on 206 for 381 points over 274 regular season games. Cal reached 50 or more goals and 100 or more points in the three years between 1998-99 and 2000-01. In the first year, his 50 goals placed him fourth in the WCHL and his 110 points placed him sixth. The following year, he finished third in the league with 52 goals and fifth with 101 points. In 2000-01, he tied for the league lead with 50 goals and placed third with 102 points.

In 2000-01, despite the Steelheads losing in the finals to the San Diego Gulls, Ingraham was an offensive force with nine goals, 14 assists for 23 points in 13 games.