ECHL Wichita Thunder

Game Day Capsule: Wichita at Quad City

March 27, 2015 - ECHL (ECHL)
Wichita Thunder News Release


Game Day Preview: Wichita at Quad City
Game Day Preview: Wichita at Quad City
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TONIGHT'S MATCH-UP

Wichita at Quad City - 7:05 p.m., i-Wireless Center, Moline, IL

WICHITA

HOME: 14-13-0-3

AWAY: 16-13-2-3 OVERALL: 30-26-2-6

LEADING SCORERS Gauthier, 63 pts (28g, 35a)

Lowe, 54 pts (17g, 37a)

Wilson, 45 pts (12g, 33a)

QUAD CITY

HOME: 15-15-2-1

AWAY: 17-12-2-2

OVERALL: 32-27-4-3

LEADING SCORERS Lamoureux, 62 pts (18g, 44a)

Fox, 53 pts (22g, 31a)

Baker, 42 pts (17g, 25a)

SEASON-SERIES

Nov. 26 INTRUST 2-0, W Dec. 12 INTRUST 3-1, L Jan. 3 INTRUST 3-2, W Jan. 7 i-Wireless 4-3, L (OT) Jan. 9 i-Wireless 4-1, W Jan. 28 i-Wireless 4-2, W Jan. 30 INTRUST 3-1, L Feb. 6 i-Wireless 2-1, W Feb. 7 i-Wireless 6-2, L Mar. 14 i-Wireless 3-1, L Mar. 25 INTRUST 5-3, L Mar. 27 i-Wirless 7:05 p.m.

**Wichita is 5-5-1-0 vs. Quad City

HEAD-TO-HEAD - This is the 12th and final meeting of the season between the Thunder and the Mallards. All-time, Wichita is 18-8-4 and 9-2-4 at i-Wireless Center.

TODAY - Wichita plays its final two games on the road starting tonight in Moline, IL against Quad City. The two teams played this past Wednesday night with the Mallards taking a 5-3 decision. Tonight is the final regular season meeting that pits Wichita against Quad City. The Mallards have won the last three contests in the season-series. The Thunder are two points behind Tulsa and three back of Quad City for third place. Wichita and Tulsa both have two games in hand on the Mallards and one in hand on Rapid City. Justin Fox led the way on Wednesday night with two goals and an assist for the Mallards. Justin Bernhardt recorded his 12th goal of the season and had one assist for the Thunder in the loss.

UP THE CHARTS - RG Flath found the net for the second game in a row on Wednesday night. He moved into a seventh place tie with Brent Sapergia with 87 goals all-time in a Thunder uniform. The Park City, UT native also moved into a ninth place tie with Daniel Tetrault with 176 points all-time and alone in seventh place in all-time games played in Thunder blue (228). Mike Wilson had two assists on

Wednesday and is alone in seventh place in assists for a defenseman all-time (67).

RUNNER-UP - Danick Gauthier finished as a runner-up for Player of the Week after his outstanding play in four games. The Tampa Bay Lightning product had three points in back-to-back games and finished with two more on Friday night against the Americans at home. Overall, he had nine points (4g, 5a) last week. He is third in the league with 24 points on the power play.

NET FRONT - One major key tonight for the Thunder will be finding a way to get traffic in front of the Quad City net. Parker Milner has been perfect against Wichita, going 6-0-0-0 with a GAA of 1.74 and SV% of .940. Evan Mosher is winless vs. the Thunder with a GAA of 2.82 and a SV% of .907.

THUNDERBOLTS... Danick Gauthier is in 12th place in goals (28)...Danick Gauthier is tied for third in power play goals (10) while Ian Lowe is tied for sixth (9)...Lowe is in 12th place for shots on goal (206) while Gauthier is in seventh (215)...Mike Wilson is third in scoring by a d-man (45) and tied for sixth in power play assists (16) while Gauthier is tied for 13th (14) ...Tim Boron is fifth in the league in minutes played (2,386), 15th in saves (948), tied for 11th in wins (20)...Grant Rollheiser is tied for eighth in shutouts (3) and ninth in saves (981)...Wichita is 11-2-0-1 when leading after one...Wichita is 18-2-0-2 when leading after two...Wichita is 16-6-2-6 in one-goal games...

QUAD CITY NOTES - Mario Lamoureux has 12 points (3g, 9a) in 11 games against the Thunder while Joe Perry leads the way with five goals in the season-series...Kevin Baker has 12 points (7g, 5a) in his last nine games...The Mallards broke a four-game losing skid and scored five goals for the first time since late February...The Mallards have allowed three goals or fewer in each of their last 13 games and rank fifth in the ECHL in goals against (2.62)...Quad City is 18-4-3-2 when leading after one...Quad City is 9-9-1-1 when tied after one...Quad City is 9-3-3-2 when tied after two...Quad City

AROUND THE ECHL - There are 12 other games tonight in the ECHL. Florida heads to Elmira. South Carolina goes to Toledo. Rapid City is in Brampton. Evansville heads to Cincinnati. Orlando travels to Gwinnett. Reading plays at Indy. Fort Wayne plays in Wheeling. Missouri goes to Allen. Idaho plays at Utah. Kalamazoo goes to Colorado. Ontario plays Bakersfield. Alaska heads to Stockton.

UP NEXT - Wichita plays its final road game of the season against Missouri at 7:05 p.m.

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