K-Wings' Berard Earns First ECHL Weekly Honor Of His Career

Three multi-goal games & eight total points earn Kalamazoo Wings forward Ben Berard a weekly honor.

The ECHL announced Berard as its Inglasco ECHL Player of the Week for March 10-16, the first Player of the Week award of his career, leading the K-Wings to a 2-0-0-1 record.

Berard, who had just been loaned to the K-Wings by the AHL's Abbotsford Canucks March 14, scored six goals and added two assists for eight points in three games last week.

The 26-year-old left winger made The Hockey News ECHL Friday Five by scoring a pair of goals in a 6-2 win at Indy on Friday and in a 5-4 shootout loss to Toledo on Saturday before notching four points (2g-2a) in 5-0 victory over the Walleye on Sunday.

Under contract to Abbotsford of the American Hockey League, the 6-foot, 192-pound Berard has 35 points (19-16-35) in 37 games with the K-Wings this season while adding two goals in four games with the Canucks.

A native of Duncan, British Columbia, Berard has tallied seven points (3-4-7) in 36 career AHL games with Abbotsford and Texas.

Prior to turning pro, Berard recorded 68 points (32-36-68) in 87 career NCAA games at Cornell University.

On behalf of Ben Berard, a case of pucks will be donated to a Kalamazoo youth hockey organization by Inglasco, the exclusive puck supplier of the ECHL. Since beginning its sponsorship of the award in 2000-01, Inglasco has donated more than 51,000 pucks to youth hockey organizations in ECHL cities.

Berard and the K-Wings face the Bloomington Bison Friday at Grossinger Motors Arena.