Eagles chasing history
Published on February 3, 2005 under Central Hockey League (CHL)
Colorado Eagles News Release
The Colorado Eagles will be chasing history when they enter the Ford Arena on Friday night to take on the Oklahoma City Blazers. The first place team in the Central Hockey league is looking to break the CHL-record for consecutive wins. If they defeat the Blazers, the team will be all alone in the record book with 13 consecutive wins. As of now the Eagles are tied with Memphis (01-02), Bossier-Shreveport (98-99) and Huntsville (96-97) with 12 wins in a row. Colorado has not lost a game in regulation since December 21, 2004 against the Amarillo Gorillas. Since that time the team is 16-0-1, with their only blemish coming on New Year's Day in a 5-4 overtime loss to the Wichita Thunder.
Colorado at Oklahoma City
6:35pm MST
Radio- 99.9 The Point, Sportsjuice.com and CHLTV.com
The Eagles have played the Blazers eight times in their short history. Colorado is 5-2-1 all-time and 2-2-1 at the Ford Center. The teams have played only once this season, a 3-2 Eagles victory in the season opener. The Blazers come to the Budweiser Events Center on February 25th and 26th for the final two regular season games between the Northern Conference opponents.
Colorado at Wichita
6:30pm MST
Radio- 99.9 The Point and Sportsjuice.com
Colorado travels to Wichita Saturday night to take on the Thunder for the final meeting of the regular season between the two top teams in the CHL. The Eagles are 3-2-1 against the Thunder this season (8-5-1 all-time), and beat the Thunder on January 21st in one of the most exciting games of the season. The top three scorers in the CHL are playing in Saturday night's game, Wichita's Jason Duda (22-50-72) leads the CHL in scoring and Wichita's Travis Clayton (27-40-67) and Eagles' Greg Pankewicz (26-41-67) are tied for second in scoring each with 67 points. As of now, the Eagles (29-5-5, 63 points) hold a five point lead over the Thunder (28-10-2, 58 points) for first place in the not only the Northwest Division, but the Central Hockey League as a whole.
EAGLES CHASING MORE RECORDS...
Colorado is not only chasing the consecutive wins record, the team is one shutout away from tying the team shutout record. Colorado is chasing Odessa's record of 10 shutout wins set in 2000-01. The Eagles currently have a 91.9 penalty killing percentage. The Laredo Bucks set the record last season at 89.4%. Colorado's penalty killing unit has been above the 90 percentile for nearly the whole season. Tyler Weiman has tied the CHL record with eight shutouts this season. He is now tied with Odessa's Grant Sjerven (00-01), Austin's Matt Barnes (02-03) and Tulsa's Rod Branch (02-03), and has 21 games left in the season to break the record.
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