Ice Home Friday Night
Published on January 9, 2012 under United States Hockey League (USHL)
Indiana Ice News Release
WINNING FORMULA: The Ice began 2012 the way they closed out 2011 in winning fashion as the team captured a 3-2 road victory Friday at Waterloo and a 4-1 home win against Youngstown on Saturday. Dalton Izyk stopped 27 shots to lead Indy past the Black Hawks as Christian Hilbrich, Emil Romig and Matt Krug provided the scoring. Jon Gillies turned back 36 shots in the win versus the Phantoms, while Dan Sherer, Drew Smolcynski, Woody Hudson and Daniil Tarasov potted goals.
TEN CENT PISTOL: The Ice is 8-0-2 in their last ten games and has not lost in regulation since 12/4/11 versus Green Bay. The franchise record for consecutive games without a regulation loss is 11 and was set by the 2008-09 Clark Cup champion team who went 10-0-1 from 10/10/08-11/8/08. The ten-game run has seen Indiana outscore their opponents 37-18, while registering a power play goal in nine of the ten games. Indy also joined Green Bay as one of only two teams to reach the 40-point plateau this season.
ONE NET AT A TIME: Indy received solid efforts in net from both Dalton Izyk and Jon Gillies this weekend. Izyk made his first start since early December and had his finest game in an Ice uniform stopping 27 of 29 shots on the road in Waterloo. Gillies is 4-0-0 since the holiday break which includes a 1.23 GAA and .956 SV% and he is first in the USHL in games (27), wins (17) and save percentage (.928).
THE HEAT IS ON: Despite missing both games on the weekend, Sean Kuraly is still riding a five-game goal streak and has ten points (8G, 2A) in his last seven games...Daniil Tarasov and Robert Polesello are both riding four-game point streaks...Drew Smolcynski carries a three-game point streak into this weekend's game...Ryan Obuchowski has points in six of his last seven games... Matt Krug had three points in his first two games back from injury...Dan Sherer scored his first goal as an Icemen on Saturday.
TEAM ROARINGS: The Ice is 14-3-4 against the Eastern Conference and 15-0-1 when leading after two periods...Indy is first in the USHL on the power play (30.3%) and has killed off 28 of their opponents' last 29 power plays to move into second on the penalty kill (87.1%)...The Ice has won five straight at home.
ALUMNI RUMBLINGS: Grant Blakey (08-09) had four points for Mercyhurst to lead the Ice collegians over the weekend...Shane Berschbach (08-10) and Nick Bailen (05-08, 09-10) had three-point weekends for WMU and RPI respectively...John Carlson (07-08) has 22 points (5G, 17A) in 39 games for the Washington Capitals...Garrett Roe (04-07), John Mitchell (05-06), Joel Rechlicz (05-06), Corey Fienhage (07-08) and Sean Dolan (04-06) are all currently on AHL rosters.
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