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Colorado Eagles week in review

March 15, 2004 - Central Hockey League (CHL)
Colorado Eagles News Release


WEEK IN REVIEW

Wednesday, March 10 Eagles 4 at Wichita Thunder 2

This was the last game before the teams meet in the playoffs. Left winger Mike McGhan had a goal and an assist, and center Riley Nelson tallied an unassisted, short-handed goal in the victory. Colorado's penalty kill gave up their first power play goal in eight games on Jason Duda's goal in the third period. After being called up and playing with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League (AHL) for 11 games, defenseman Jesse Cook played his first game with the Eagles since February 15. The Eagles were out shot 38-27, but capitalized on their chances for their 42nd victory of the season.

Friday, March 12 Eagles 2 at Indianapolis Ice 1 Shootout

7,714 fans attended the game and the Eagles won their seventh-consecutive game for their longest winning streak of the season. Colorado netted the only goal of the first period when left winger Karlis Zirnis picked up a rebound by a shot from Phil Crowe. The Ice tied the game only 1:47 into the second period on a power play goal from center Adam Redmond. In the shootout, Eagles' center Riley Nelson earned the game-winning goal to extend his point scoring streak to 16 games.

Sunday, March 14 Eagles 3 at Indianapolis Ice 4 Shootout

In their final game of the regular season and holding on to a seven-game winning streak, the Eagles lost to the Indianapolis Ice, 4-3 in a shootout at the Pepsi Coliseum. The game marked the second time in as many games the teams have gone to a shootout to decide the outcome. Defenseman of the Year Bernie John earned the game-winning goal for the Ice in the final attempt of the shootout. Indianapolis won their first game against the Eagles all season (four games), and every game in the series was decided by one goal.

WEEK AHEAD- Northern Conference Semi-finals Best-of-five series

Friday, March 19 Wichita Thunder at Colorado 7:05 PM
Saturday, March 20 Wichita Thunder at Colorado 7:05 PM
Friday, March 26 Colorado at Wichita Thunder 6:30 PM
*Saturday, March 27 Colorado at Wichita Thunder 6:30 PM
*Monday, March 29 Wichita Thunder at Colorado 7:05 PM

*- if necessary

All Times Mountain

EAGLES TEAM LEADERS

Goals: Pankewicz 46 Shots: Pankewicz 286

Assists: Nelson/Pankewicz 49 SH Pct: Nelson 18.3%

Points: Pankewicz 95 Shootout G: Pankewicz 4

+/-: Tobler +39 Wins: Bach 33

PIM: Thompson 172 GAA: Baldrica 2.05

PPG: Nelson 9 Saves: Bach 1325

SHG: Pankewicz 4 Save Pct: Baldrica .922

GWG: Pankewicz 11 Minutes: Bach 3200:54

Expansion Records- The Eagles broke an expansion team record for the most points (91), highest winning percentage (.711), and most wins (43) by an expansion team. The Laredo Bucks held the previous records with 88 points, .688 winning percentage, and 41 wins all in the 2002-03 season.

Penalty Killers- Colorado's penalty kill finished second in the CHL at 89.08 percent. On two separate occasions, the Eagles killed every penalty in seven consecutive games. Only the Laredo Bucks killed a higher percentage of penalties at 89.36 percent.

Eagles Leaders-

Eagles goaltender Ryan Bach finished the regular season on top of many categories for goaltenders. He leads the league in minutes (3200), games played (53, tied with Nathan Grobins-Wichita), wins (33, tied with Nathan Grobins-Wichita). Bach is also tied with San Angelo's Scott Reid and Indianapolis' Jeff Sanger with six shutouts. He was awarded the Vaughn Goaltender of the Month for January.

Right winger Greg Pankewicz has been a headache for opposing defenses all season long. He leads the CHL in goals with 46, and game-winning goals with 11. Pankewicz was second in scoring with 95 points. Only Laredo's Jeff Bes scored more points with 117.

In his first year as a professional, Karlis Zirnis led all rookies in points (60), and in assists (37).

Iron Men- Rookie Karlis Zirnis and defenseman Brad Williamson played in all 64 games of the Eagles' inaugural season.

Record This Week: 2-0-1 Home Record: 25-5-2 Overall Record: 43-16-5 Road Record: 18-11-3

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