CHL Fort Wayne Komets

Komets Sweep Thanksgiving Week Games; PrairieThunder Visit Friday

Published on November 29, 2010 under Central Hockey League (CHL)
Fort Wayne Komets News Release


Fort Wayne, IN | Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 --- The Komets will begin the December portion of their schedule this week riding a three-game winning streak after sweeping all three games played during the last week of November. The Komets celebrated Thanksgiving week by stopping a five-game winless skid with their third straight Thanksgiving home win 5-2 over the visiting Quad City Mallards. The Komets improved to 31-14-4 in 49 consecutive Thanksgiving night games in Fort Wayne. It was the first five-goal game for the Komets this season. The last time the Komets netted five or more goals in a home game was last season on April 11, also against the Mallards in an 8-4 win. The win also snapped a two-game home losing skid. The last time the Komets lost three straight games at home was in December, 2005.

Friday the Komets doubled-up the IceMen at Evansville 4-2 and Saturday the K's returned home and clipped the Mallards in a rematch 5-4 and take a three-game win string into week eight of the 2010-11 campaign.

Firsts -- Center Neil Musselwhite scored his fist pro goal and center Chris Francis scored his first goal as a Komet in Fort Wayne's 5-2 Thanksgiving home win over Quad City. Kaleigh Schrock netted his first pro hat trick and the Komets' first hat trick of the season in Saturday's 5-4 home win against Quad City.

Streaking Komets -- Three-game point streaks (posting points in each game of the week): RW Kaleigh Schrock (4g, 1a), defenseman Frankie DeAngelis (2g, 5a, and 3-game assist streak-5a), defenseman Brandon Warner (1g, 2a), center Mathieu Curadeau (2g, 1a). Four-game point streaks: RW Sean O'Connor (1g, 6a, and 4-game assist streak-6a), center Chris Francis (1g, 5a, and 4-game assist streak-5a).

For The Week (3-0-0) -- Defenseman Frankie DeAngelis led the Komets, scoring two goals and dishing five assists for a seven-point week. Right wing Sean O'Connor scored a goal and added five assists for six points. Right winger Kaleigh Schrock scored four goals (including a hat trick) and had five points. Center Chris Francis scored a goal and passed four assists for four points in the three games played. Goaltenders: Nick Boucher posted a 3.00 goals-against average and .905 save percentage with two wins. Kevin Reiter appeared in one game allowing two goals on 40 shots in 4-2 win at Evansville Friday.

Special K's -- For the week, the Komets were 8/20@% on the power play, and 15/18=83.3% on the penalty kill. Fort Wayne has scored on the power play four straight games (9/25=36%). Fort Wayne ranks 6th in the CHL with the man advantage (19/95.0%) and have the fourth-best penalty kill (82/96....4%).

Another penalty shot -- The Komets successfully stopped their third penalty shot against them this season Thanksgiving night when Quad City's Brandon Marino was awarded the free attempt at 6:24 of the first period. Fort Wayne netminder Nick Boucher made the save and has stopped both of two penalty shot attempts against him this season. Boucher also turned back Arizona's Chris Kane Oct. 23 at Arizona. Kevin Reiter also made a successful stop against Dayton's Mike Vaskivuo Nov. 11 at Dayton.

THE WEEK AHEAD Friday, Dec. 3 -- Bloomington (8-6-1) at Fort Wayne (5-8-1), 8pm ET The Komets will host Bloomington Friday night at 8:00 for the second of 10 meetings this season and the second of five PrairieThunder visits to Fort Wayne. The Komets were shut out 4-0 when Bloomington was in town Nov. 5. The PrairieThunder are coming off two straight losses and are 2-4-1 in their last seven games. Bloomington is idle this week until they travel to Fort Wayne Friday.

Saturday, Dec. 4 -- Fort Wayne at Dayton (9-5-1), 7:30pm ET The Komets will face the Gems at Hara Arena in Dayton Saturday night at 7:30. Dayton leads the season series 2-0-0. It's the sixth of seven trips to Dayton for Fort Wayne this season. The Gems, coached by Fort Wayne native Brian Gratz, are 2-3-0 in their last five games and are starting the week after a 4-3 home win against Bloomington last Saturday night. Dayton will host Evansville Thursday and travel to Evansville Friday before returning home to host the Komets at Hara Arena Saturday.

Great seats available.....Tickets for all Komet home games are on sale at the Coliseum Ticket Office and online at www.ticketmaster.com. The Komets offer discounts on group tickets sold at the Komet office at 1010 Memorial Way. For more information visit the Komet office, call 260-483-0011 or visit the Komets' website at www.komets.com.

Friday night Marathon Nights.....Friday nights are Marathon Nights at Komet home games. Fans can take advantage of a buy-one-get-one-free ticket offer with three fill-ups when the Komets host the Bloomington PrairieThunder this Friday at 8pm. Fill Up Cards are available at participating Marathon stations.

All games on News Talk 1190 WOWO.....Bob Chase is celebrating his 58th consecutive season behind the Komet microphone broadcasting radio-rinkside. All games broadcast this year can be heard on News Talk 1190 WOWO and webcast at www.komets.com at Xfinity KometCast .

Komets.com.....The official website for the Fort Wayne Komets is www.komets.com. In addition to live gamecasts, the Komets' home on the web also features news, stats, interactive fan features and information as well as real-time scoring via the CHL and Pointstreak.

KOMETS PLANNER

Komet games this week .

Friday, Dec. 3.........Bloomington PrairieThunder at Komets, 8pm, WOWO AM 1190

Saturday, Dec. 4.....Komets at Dayton Gems, 7:30pm, WOWO AM 1190

All games broadcast can also be heard at www.Komets.com at Xfinity KometCast .

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