If you haven’t heard by now then where have you been?  If you missed it in the game report then I’ll put it again here.  In last night’s game Jason Ruff put in a hat trick performance and added an assist.  His second point of the night, his first goal of the game was his 200th as a Belfast Giants player.  Ruff earlier in the year became the Giants all-time highest points scorer to confirm his status among the fans as the Giants greatest players and last night he just confirmed it.  Only Todd Kelman who is still playing could come close to that 200 point mark but he has since announced he will retire at the end of the season.

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The milestones are coming thick and fast this month.   Off the back of Ruff taking the all time assists and points lead and the Giants recording their 200th franshise win, they have set a milestone that wont be to popular with the fans.  The third goal in the 3-1 defeat to the Manchester Phoenix marked the 1000th goal scored against the Giants in team history.  The goal was scored into the empty net by Johan Molin and assisted by ex-Giants player coach Tony Hand and Derek Campbell.

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Tonights win against Newcastle was the 200th win in the teams history.  It comes 6 seasons and 14 games into the 7th season in the teams history.  Goals from Ruff, Dutiaume and Huppe aided the Giants win with Dutiaume getting the game winning goal.  The 100th win in team history came on 6th April 2003 when the Giants beat the London Knights 5-3 to win their first and only playoff championship.

Going by them time scales the Giants should win their 300th game late in the 2008-2009 season or early in the 2009-2010 season.  Theres no guesses on who will score the winning goal in that game though who would put it past being Todd Kelman!

(Win’s do not include exehibition game or four void league games from the 2002-2003 season and 2005-2006).

Jason Ruff and Todd Kelman continue to battle it out for the all-time assists lead for the Giants.  Ruff’s second assist of the game on a Jeff Hutchins goal in Saturdays 3-1 win over Hull put the big Canadian forward who recently became the teams all-time points leader on 119 assists compared to Kelmans 118.  

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With an assist on Curtis Huppe’s goal in tonight’s 4-3 win against Hull Stingrays, Jason Ruff moved into first place in the all-time Giants points scoring chart.  He later added another assist and the game winning goal to move three points clear of previous leader Curtis Bowen.  Ruff now sits on 190 points through 144 career Giants games.

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Jason Ruff goes into Newcastle tonight needing just two points to tie the Giant all-time points scoring lead currently held by Curtis Huppe.  Ruffles currently sits on 185 points thanks to 72 goals and 113 assists in 139 games.  Curtis Huppe who reached the 187 number in 219 games left the Giants at the end of the 04-05 season to join Nottingham after 4 seasons in Belfast.  Tonights game against Newcastle faces off at 6.30pm.

All-Time player Stats

With Killer taking the all-time assists lead last weekend I’ve decided to take a look at the different milestones up for grabs in the coming season and Jason Ruff certainly features heavily.  Ruffles could in fact hold the goals, assists and points record within the coming weeks never mind by the end of the season… Quite a feat for the Giants greatest player.

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Todd Kelman’s assist on a Curtis Huppe goal on Sunday night (10-Sep-2006) at 04:51 of the 2nd period in Coventry gave him 113 career assists for the Belfast Giants and moved him into first in the all-time assists list ahead of Kevin Riehl. Todd who also played his 347th career game for the Giants has played more times for the team than any other person and has played every season of the teams existance.