AHL Quick Hits

February 19, 2003 - American Hockey League (AHL) News Release

Eric Healey became the first AHL player since 1995 to record back-to-back hat tricks when he scored three times in Manchester's 6-2 win over St. John's on Monday. Steve Kelly recorded four assists for the Monarchs... Also Monday, Jason Williams scored twice – giving him 12 goals in the last nine games – as Grand Rapids handed Syracuse a 4-3 setback... On Tuesday, Rochester snapped a 12-game home winless skid with a 4-1 win over Cincinnati... Hamilton scored four power play goals in the third period to down Binghamton, 4-0... San Antonio's 12-game, 28-day road trip ended at 7-4-1-0 after a 2-0 loss in Bridgeport.

Mon 2/17
Springfield 3, ALBANY 1... MANCHESTER 6, St. John's 2... Grand Rapids 4, SYRACUSE 3... Philadelphia at Wilkes-Barre, ppd.

Tue 2/18
BRIDGEPORT 2, San Antonio 0... HAMILTON 4, Binghamton 0... MILWAUKEE 7, Utah 4... ROCHESTER 4, Cincinnati 1

LOOKING AHEAD: Chris and Peter Ferraro lead Portland into the City of Brotherly Love tonight (7:05 ET), the fifth stop on an eight-game road trip. The Pirates had scored nine goals in their previous seven games before Sunday's 8-4 win in Hershey, sparked by four-point efforts from each Ferraro. Jamie Wright has a goal in five straight games for Philadelphia, one shy of the AHL season high. Ex-Phantom Maxime Ouellet stopped 34 shots in Portland's 1-0 win over Philadelphia on New Year's Eve.

Houston continues to pace the Western Conference and Manitoba is jockeying for position in the East as the Moose look to snap a six-game winless skid against the Aeros tonight (7:30 CT). Houston, 6-1-1-1 in its last nine on the road, knocked off the Moose 4-1 and 6-1 in the teams' first two meetings last month, with nine different Aeros finding the net. Manitoba is 0-4-2-0 since the All-Star break, dropping into the 10th spot in the conference standings.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's five-game road trip continues tonight in Utah (7:00 MT, 9:00 ET), where the Grizzlies will be looking to snap a six-game losing streak overall. The Penguins are 4-0-1-1 in their last six and are right in the thick of the Western Conference race, three points behind the fourth seed Chicago. Utah, who lost AHL All-Star Game MVP Jon Sim in a trade with the Nashville organization on Monday, is 6-2-0-0 against the South Division this season.

(all times local)
Wed 2/19
St. John's at Saint John, 7:30... Manchester at Lowell, 7:00... Hershey at Syracuse, 7:00... Albany at Bridgeport, 7:05... Portland at Philadelphia, 7:05... Providence at Worcester, 7:05... Chicago at Cincinnati, 7:35... Houston at Manitoba, 7:30... Wilkes-Barre at Utah, 7:00

Fri 2/21
St. John's at Saint John, 7:30... Bridgeport at Hartford, 7:05... Albany at Philadelphia, 7:05... Lowell at Providence, 7:05... Cleveland at Grand Rapids, 7:30... Hershey at Syracuse, 7:30... Norfolk at Cincinnati, 7:35... Portland at Manchester, 7:35... Worcester at Springfield, 7:35... Chicago at San Antonio, 7:00... Hamilton at Milwaukee, 7:12... Houston at Manitoba, 7:30... Wilkes-Barre at Utah, 7:00

ALUMNI WATCH:
On Tuesday, reigning Sher-Wood AHL Player of the Week Jeff Toms scored to help Florida to a 3-0 win in Montreal on Tuesday... Ryan Bayda scored his first NHL goal for Carolina in a 4-3 loss to Toronto... On Monday, Niko Dimitrakos netted a goal and an assist for his first two NHL points in San Jose's 3-2 loss to Los Angeles... On Saturday, Rory Fitzpatrick scored his first NHL goal since the 1996 playoffs in Buffalo's 5-4 win over the N.Y. Rangers... Boston's Zdenek Kutlak and Pittsburgh's Tomas Surovy also scored their first NHL goals on Saturday.

ON THE AIR:
Wednesday, Wilkes-Barre at Utah -- Fox Sports Net Rocky Mountain -- 7:00 MT
Saturday, Providence at Lowell -- AT&T 3 (Hockey Night New England) -- 7:00 ET
Saturday, Hartford at Albany -- Time Warner Cable 2/14 (Albany) -- 7:00 ET
Saturday, Cleveland at Rochester -- WB-16 (Rochester) -- 7:35 ET
Saturday, Houston at Chicago -- KTBU-TV 55 (Houston)/CLTV (Chicago) -- 7:00 CT
Sunday, Manchester at Hartford -- Fox Sports Net New England -- 4:05 ET

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