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Leggio named MHJ No.1 Star of the Week

By  Published: 25th October 2010

David Leggio, Brian Flynn and Colt Steele have been named Maine Hockey Journal’s Three Stars of the Week for the week ending Oct. 24th.

David Leggio, goaltender for the AHL Portland Pirates, earns this week’s No. 1 star after playing two games last week for the Pirates, going 2-0-0 with a 1.44GAA and a .959 save percentage.

Leggio, in his first year with the Pirates, backstopped the Pirates to a 3-2 SO win on Tuesday night stopping 35 of 37 shots including eight of nine in the shootout. On Saturday, Leggio was even more outstanding, stopping 36 of 37 to give the Pirates a 2-1 win over the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.

The Williamsville native is currently fifth in the AHL in GAA and save percentage.

Brian Flynn help guide the University of Maine Black Bears to a two game sweep of the No.2 team in the nation, North Dakota Fighting Sioux.

Flynn scored two goals for the Black Bears including the game winner on Friday night at Maine went on for a 7-3 victory over North Dakota. He added another goal on Saturday as Maine swept the weekend with a 4-2 win. For his efforts this weekend, he was named Hockey East Player of the Week. It’s the third time in his career that Flynn has been named Hockey East Player of the Week. Flynn has four goals, one assist for five points on the season.

The Lynnfield Mass. native is this week’s No.2 star.

The No.3 star of the week goes to Colt Steele of the Portland Jr. Pirates.

Steele scored a goal and two assists as the Jr. Pirates continued their torrid pace in the MJHL standings with a 5-2 win over the Cranston Reds.

Steele, 17, assisted on the game winning goal as part of his two assists and added a goal of his own as the Lewiston, ME native now has four goals, nine assists in 11 games and extended his points scoring streak to four games.

The Jr. Pirates are currently 8-3-0 and sit in second place of the Francis Division, only two points behind the Walpole Express.

Honorable Mention:
POR – Mark Parrish – 3GP 1G 2A
POR – Colin Stuart – 3GP 2G 1A
LEW – Michael Chaput – 3GP 1G 1A
UMaine – Robby Dee – 2GP 1G 3A
UMaine – Spencer Abbott – 2GP 1G 3A
UMaine – Gustav Nyquist – 2GP 2G 2A
Jr. Pirates – Jordan Grimsley – 1GP 2A
Jr. Pirates – Sam Guimond – 1GP 2G
Jr. Pirates – Nick Luce – 1GP 2A


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