AHL unveils Top Prospects trading card set

The American Hockey League and the Professional Hockey Players’ Association today unveiled the 2006-07 AHL Top Prospects trading card set, featuring 50 of the outstanding young players in the AHL.

The set, manufactured by Choice SportsCards of Aston, Pa., features action photos and career statistics of rising stars from all 27 AHL teams.

The cards are available for purchase online at ahlstore.com and PHPA.com and in select AHL arenas.

Included in the set are:

Kyle Cumiskey	Ryan Callahan	Troy Brouwer	Drew Stafford
Justin Peters	Daniel Girardi	Dustin Byfuglien	Bill Thomas
Andrew Ebbett	Jeff Schultz	Corey Crawford	Blair Jones
Josh Hennessy	Benoit Pouliot	Dustin Boyd	Karri Ramo
Jeff Tambellini	Joel Lundqvist	Curtis McElhinney	Tomas Popperle
Robert Nilsson	Vojtech Polak	Roman Polak	Colin Murphy
Blake Comeau	Andy Greene	Marek Schwarz	Justin Pogge
Brett Sterling	Matt Moulson	Stefan Ruzicka	Jonathan Filewich
Nathan Oystrick	Peter Harrold	Ryan Shannon	Rob Schremp
Boris Valabik	Colby Genoway	David Krejci	Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers
Jonathan Ericsson	Alex Edler	Matt Lashoff	Joe Pavelski
Jimmy Howard	Rich Peverley	Clarke MacArthur	Thomas Greiss
Jaroslav Halak	Cal O’Reilly

Now in its 71st season of play, the AHL continues to serve as the top development league for all 30 National Hockey League teams. More than 80 percent of today’s NHL players are American Hockey League graduates, and for the fifth year in a row, more than 6.3 million fans attended AHL games across North America in 2005-06.