In a flashback to our archives circa 1995, Trevor Jobe smashed ECHL records.
By: John Packett
Whenever Trevor Jobe and Nick Fotiu get together, records fall in the East Coast League.
Jobe, the player, and Fotiu, the coach, hooked up in 1992-93 with the Nashville Knights, when the center set an ECHL record for most goals (85) and points (161) in a season and the most points in a game (10).
The pair joined forces again this season when Fotiu became coach of the Johnstown Chiefs and talked Jobe into becoming his player-assistant. Jobe passed Phil Berger as the league’s all-time leading point scorer with his 533rd career point on a first-period goal Nov. 10 against the Wheeling Thunderbirds.
“It was gratifying to do it with (Fotiu) there,” Jobe said. “He was one of the first ones to congratulate me. He told me, ‘Another record, eh?’”
Jobe finished with a hat trick and an assist in the 7-6 shootout loss to the Thunderbirds. Following a busy weekend, the 28-year-old had 281 goals and 539 points in 286 games. Jobe also holds the league record for goals.
“I told my teammates I wanted to get (the record) in the first five minutes of the game and I did,” Jobe said. “It was a wraparound during a 5-on-3 (power play). That broke the ice with the players because they were really trying to feed me the puck.”
Johnstown is the fifth ECHL team for which Jobe has played, the others being Nashville, the Richmond Renegades, Raleigh IceCaps and Hampton Roads Admirals. His first season was 1989-90.
“The way I look at it, I could have broken it last year if I hadn’t been in Atlanta (of the International League on recall from Nashville) or the year before,” said the native of Brandon, Man. “I’m proud of the accomplishment. A lot of credit goes to the great players I’ve played with.
“And I owe a lot to Nicky. He allowed me to play the game the way I wanted to play it. I guess it was meant to be, Nicky and me.”
Jobe plans on playing another couple of seasons and hopes to get into coaching full-time after that.
“Right now, I still consider myself a full-time player, but coaching is something I want to do after I finish. There are still some things 1 want to accomplish as a player.”
Chief is “winning the Riley Cup and putting Johnstown back on the hockey map,” said Jobe, a 1987 draft choice of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Jobe had 26 points in 12 games this season.
THN Archive is an exclusive vault of 2,640 issues and more than 156,000 stories for subscribers, chronicling the complete history of The Hockey News from 1947 until today. Visit THN.com/archive and subscribe today at subscribe.thehockeynews.com