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Cleveland Barons Weekly Report

March 13, 2006 - American Hockey League (AHL)
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Flashback

3/10/2006 Cleveland 3, Milwaukee 6

Darren Haydar scored twice and added an assist leading the Milwaukee Admirals to a 6-3 win over the Barons on Friday night. The Admirals drew first blood with a goal from Haydar at the 6:17 mark. The Admirals extended their lead on another score from Haydar, his 24th of the year, on the power play with assists from Simon Gamache and Greg Classen. The teams combined for 30 minutes in penalties, but only four combined power play chances. Milwaukee extended their lead in the second period on Chris Durno's 15th goal of the year. The Barons answered with a rebound tally form their leading scorer, Josh Hennessy. The second period comeback came up short for the Barons as Milwaukee answered with another goal at the 14:22 mark. The teams combined for four goals in the first 4:26 of the third period, but Cleveland couldn't trim the Milwaukee lead, falling 6-3 at the Bradley Center. Paul Brown's 1st of the year from Milwaukee began the barrage just 48-seconds into the final frame. The Barons would answer with back to back tallies. Shane Joseph completed a great pass play from Lukas Kaspar for a power play goal at the 2:29 mark. Eighty-one seconds later the Barons would strike again as Tomas Plihal scored on a short-handed breakaway. However, on that same power play chance, Milwaukee would score to take a 6-3 lead and complete the night's scoring.

3/11/2006 Cleveland 0, Omaha 5

A 28-save performance from Omaha's Curtis McElhinney led the Ak-Sar-Ben Knights to a 5-0 win over the Barons on Saturday night. Omaha scored the only two goals of the period for a 2-0 advantage through twenty minutes of action. With a deflection goal Warren Peters tallied the game's opening score 4:26 into the game. A little over nine minutes later, Ajay Barnes converted a breakaway for his seventh goal of the year to complete the period's scoring. Omaha scored two more unanswered goals in the second period, leading to a 4-0 score after forty minutes of play. Carsen Germyn blasted home a power play one-time slap shot for his 22nd at the 6:14 mark. The Knights added another when Brandon Prust tucked home his 8th goal of the season. Adding insurance to the game's outcome was a short-handed penalty shot goal from Craig MacDonald.

3/12/2006 Cleveland 1, Peoria 4

Reed Low and Gavin Morgan each tallied a goal and an assist to lead Peoria to a 4-1 win over the Barons on Sunday night. Seventeen shots on goal was not enough for the Barons, who trailed 1-0 following twenty minutes of play. Peoria's goal came from Jon DiSalvatore, his 11th of the year. Three unanswered goals from Peoria put the game away as the Rivermen led 4-0 through forty minutes of action. Low scored his second goal in as many games to extend the lead to 2-0. A little over four minutes later, Cam Keith registered a short-handed goal for the three goal advantage before Morgan deposited a power play goal for the period's final tally. The Barons foiled Reinhard Divis' quest for a shutout as Riley Armstrong scored his third goal of the season with 18-seconds to go in the game. Matt Carkner earned the only assists on the Armstrong goal.

Coming Up

3/17/2006 Cleveland @ Grand Rapids - Van Andel Arena

The Barons and the Griffins meet up in the eighth of ten games this season between the North Division rivals. Grand Rapids currently leads the division with a record of 45-16-1-4. Grand Rapids center Jiri Hudler has earned 13 points (4-9-13) in 7 games against the Barons this season. Cleveland trails in the season series, 1-6-0-0.

Barons Player of the Week

The Cleveland Barons Player of the Week is center Tomas Plihal. Plihal had a goal and an assist for two points in the Barons games this week. He finished the week with a minus-one plus/minus rating and no penalty minutes. Plihal has earned 22 points (4-18-22) in 65 games this season.

Drawing First Blood

The Barons have given up the first goal of the game in 23 of the past 28 games. They are 14-11-2-1 when scoring the first goal of the game and 9-26-0-0 when their opponent scores first. They lost in a shootout the one game in which neither team scored in regulation.

Heni-Powered

With his goal in the Barons game on Friday, rookie center Josh Hennessy needs just one more goal to tie the Barons franchise record for rookie goal scoring. The record is currently held by Jon DiSalvatore, who earned 22 goals in his rookie campaign for the Barons. Hennessy currently leads the team with 54 points (21-33-54).

Rubbermaid Player of the Game

At the end of each game the Barons select a Rubbermaid Player of the Game, given to the player who displays toughness and durability throughout the game. At the end of the season, the player with the most selections will receive a prize package courtesy of Rubbermaid. Currently, Josh Hennessy leads the race for the Rubbermaid with eight selections and Mike Iggulden is in second place with six selections.

Player Appearances

On March 14th, Ryane Clowe will be speaking to the Cleveland Hockey Boosters Club meeting. Riley Armstrong and SlapShark will be making an appearance at St. Columbkille school in Parma on March 21st.

Breakaway With The Barons

The season's fourth and final National City Breakaway with the Barons, presented by the United States Air Force and WDOK SoftRock 102.1 will take place on Tuesday, March 21 at Iceland USA in Strongsville Ohio. The event had originally been scheduled for March 20. Each Breakaway features a one-hour Barons practice session, followed by a post-practice skate with the team. This is the perfect opportunity for fans to get photographs with and autographs from the team.

Barons Broadcasts

All games this season will be broadcast live and in their entirety on-line via the B2 Networks. Fans can enjoy the play-by-play action of Barons hockey provided by the "Voice of the Barons" Jamie Smock, by Crashing the Net at www.clevelandbarons.net. Fans can watch the game via B2 Networks' Live Video Stream of the game on a pay-per-view basis of $6.00 per game. There is also a free audio version of the broadcast offered. Every Barons game broadcast begins with a pre-game show 15-minutes prior to face-off.



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