IHL 2 Fort Wayne Komets

Komets To Ring In 2010 With Busy Week; Schrock Named Rookie Of The Week

December 28, 2009 - International Hockey League 2 (IHL 2)
Fort Wayne Komets News Release


Fort Wayne, IN - The Komets will be busy ringing out the old and bringing in the new this week with four games slated in five nights.

The busy week starts at home against the Dayton Gems Tuesday night at 7:30pm. It will be the fourth of 15 meetings this season and the second of six in Fort Wayne. The Komets (15-10-0-1, 31 points) dulled the Gem's debut in Fort Wayne Nov. 14 in overtime 2-1 and blanked the Gems at Dayton Dec. 5 in the last meeting 3-0. Dayton (12-14-3-1, 28 points) is struggling to hold on to fifth place in the IHL after losing their last three games played and are 1-5-0-1 in their last seven games. Tuesday night's game will be the first of a home-and-home midweek series with a rematch Wednesday night at Hara Arena at 7pm.

Thursday the Komets will host Bloomington (14-9-1-2, 31 points) at 7:30pm for the 53rd Fort Wayne New Year's Eve home game. The Komets have won the last seven straight New Year's Eve games and are 35-13-3-1 in 52 Fort Wayne New Year's Eve games since the tradition started in 1955. It will be the second time the PrairieThunder spent New Year's Eve in Fort Wayne. Bloomington rang in 2008 with a 4-1 loss to the Komets in their first New Year's Eve appearance. The Komets and Thunder are tied for third place in the IHL for the third straight week as week 12 begins. Bloomington hosts Muskegon Tuesday before making the trip to Fort Wayne Thursday.

Saturday the Komets begin the New Year with a 7:30pm faceoff at Perani Arena in Flint. The Komets will have a chance to avenge their 4-1 loss at Flint Sunday. It will be the fourth of 12 meetings this season with the Komets holding a 3-1-0-0 series edge. The Generals will host Quad City Wednesday before facing the Komets Saturday.

About last week The Komets split two games played for week 11. Saturday the Komets started the post-Christmas weekend road tour with their first win of the season in three meetings at Walker Arena in Muskegon 7-2. Sunday the Komets ended the weekend with a 4-1 setback at Flint for their first loss of the season to the Generals. Streaking Chaulk hits 500 as a Komet.....Colin Chaulk (C) finished the week riding a five-game point-scoring streak (4 goals, 7 assists) and three-game assist streak (5 assists) while also hitting a couple milestones along the way. The veteran center marked his 500th point as a Komet with his first goal of the game at Muskegon Saturday. His second goal of the game was his 800th pro point. Schrock named Rookie of the Week....the IHL named Komet winger Kaleigh Schrock Rookie of the Week for the week ending Dec. 27. The Fort Wayne native contributed his first pro 2-goal performance in the Komets' 7-2 win at Muskegon Saturday. In addition to his pair of points Schrock completed the two weekend games posting a +2 and accumulating 12 penalty minutes.

Family Holiday Skate Tuesday.....a special Family Free Holiday Skate, compliments of Wendy's, will be featured immediately following the Komets home game against Dayton Tuesday. Bring your skates!

Welcome 2010 with the Komets.....free noisemakers and party favors will be handed out to the first 5,000 fans New Year's Eve when the Komets host Bloomington at 7:30pm courtesy of Technology Specialists. Also, the Komets will wear their Limited Edition Technology Specialists/Fort Wayne Children's Zoo Wild Jungle game jerseys Thursday night.

Great Komet tickets.......Still plenty of great seats available for all upcoming Komet home games. Tickets are on sale at the Coliseum Ticket Office and online at www.ticketmaster.com. Single game ticket prices for 2009-10 remain the same as last season, ranging from $8.00 to $20.00 for seniors and adults and starting at $6.00 for children. 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.

Radio rink-side......follow the Komets radio-rinkside with Bob Chase, in his 57th consecutive season calling Komet action on WOWO Radio AM 1190. The Komet broadcast can also be heard worldwide at www.komets.com at Comcast KometCast.

Komets.com.....the official website of the Fort Wayne Komets is www.komets.com. In addition to featuring free webcasting of live Komet game radio, Komets.com also provides fans and media with up-to-date team stats, news, interactive fan features and information. Fans can also follow all Komet games with real-time scoring via the IHL and Pointstreak by clicking the Scoreboard at Komets.com.

Komets holiday office hours Dec. 28, 10am-4pm; Dec 29, 9am-5pm; Dec. 30, 10am-4pm; Dec. 31, 9am-3pm; Jan. 1, closed.

KOMETS PLANNER Komet games this week Tuesday, Dec. 29............Dayton Gems at Komets, 7:30pm, ESPN/WKJG Radio AM 1380 Wednesday, Dec. 30.......Komets at Dayton Gems, 7pm, ESPN/WKJG Radio AM 1380 Thursday, Dec. 31...........Bloomington PrairieThunder at Komets, 7:30pm, WOWO Radio AM 1190 Saturday, Jan 2...............Komets at Flint Generals, 7:30pm, WOWO Radio AM 1190 All games broadcast on radio are webcast free at www.Komets.com Comcast KometCast. Komet practice schedule Tuesday, Dec. 29...........10am-11am at the Coliseum Wednesday, Dec. 30......10am-11am at McMillen Ice Arena Thursday, Dec. 31..........10am-11am at McMillen Ice Arena Monday, Jan. 4..............10am-noon at the Coliseum Tuesday, Jan. 5.............10am-noon at the Coliseum Wednesday, Jan. 6........10am-noon at the Coliseum

IHL STANDINGS thru games of 12/27/2009 TEAM GP W L OTL SOL PTS WPCT GF GA PIM HOME ROAD L-TEN STREAK Port Huron 28 20 7 0 1 41 .732 94 71 582 12-2-0-0 8-5-0-1 9-1-0-0 3-0-0-0 Muskegon 28 19 6 0 3 41 .732 96 73 718 12-4-0-0 7-2-0-3 7-2-0-1 0-1-0-0 Fort Wayne 26 15 10 0 1 31 .596 74 68 600 8-2-0-1 7-8-0-0 4-5-0-1 0-1-0-0 Bloomington 26 14 9 1 2 31 .596 86 77 707 11-3-1-0 3-6-0-2 5-5-0-0 0-1-0-0 Dayton 30 12 14 3 1 28 .467 82 95 443 6-6-1-1 6-8-2-0 3-6-0-1 0-3-0-0 Flint 30 10 17 1 2 23 .383 78 95 626 8-5-0-2 2-12-1-0 4-5-1-0 2-0-0-0 Quad City 26 7 14 4 1 19 .365 62 93 446 5-5-1-1 2-9-3-0 2-6-2-0 1-0-0-0 TOTALS 194 97 77 9 11 214 .552 572 572 4122 - - - -

FORT WAYNE KOMETS TEAMSTATS thru games of 12/27/2009 # PLAYER POS GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG PPA SHG SHA GWG FG OTG UAG ENG SHOG SHOA SHO% SHOTS SPCT 91 Chaulk, Colin C 25 6 22 28 +4 66 1 7 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 .000 66 .091 71 Drouin, P.C. LW 26 5 18 23 -1 20 3 9 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 3 .333 79 .063 44 Thomas, Leo C 26 11 6 17 +1 26 5 4 1 0 4 1 2 0 0 0 2 .000 63 .175 2 Dupuis, Guy D 26 4 13 17 +3 43 2 5 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 67 .060 29 OConnor, Sean RW 22 6 7 13 -3 20 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 .000 66 .091 96 Chwedoruk, Justin F 16 6 5 11 +2 6 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 .000 49 .122 14 DeAngelis, Frankie D 23 3 8 11 -1 2 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 38 .079 24 Shafranov, Konstan LW 13 3 7 10 +4 6 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1.000 25 .120 27 Syroczynski, Matt LW 5 5 3 8 +6 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 25 .200 21 Hukalo, David RW 17 4 3 7 0 28 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 .000 36 .111 79 Schrock, Kaliegh RW 26 5 1 6 -4 63 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 .000 60 .083 72 Woodard, Matt D 25 3 2 5 -6 25 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 39 .077 8 Klempa, Tomas RW 22 3 2 5 -5 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 62 .048 19 Rodger, Keith D 25 2 3 5 -5 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 27 .074 22 Bertram, Kevin D 17 1 4 5 +9 25 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 13 .077 7 Varone, Rick C 14 1 4 5 -2 12 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 32 .031 9 Warner, Brandon D 18 1 3 4 -2 6 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 23 .043 20 Phillips, Bobby D 26 0 4 4 +12 19 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 32 .000 15 MacMillan, Brad RW 10 1 1 2 +2 82 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 10 .100 35 Haun, Tim G 17 0 2 2 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 51 Stayzer, Blair D 13 1 0 1 0 34 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 16 .063 X Whitehead, Travis C 7 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 6 .167 3 Mironovic, Danko D 22 0 1 1 0 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 17 .000 X Saidachev, Evgeny RW 7 0 1 1 -2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 6 .000 33 Boucher, Nick G 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 X Laise, Vince F 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 1 Duffus, Parris G 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG PPA SHG SHA GWG FG OTG UAG ENG SHOG SHOA SHO% SHOTS SPCT TOTALS 26 74 120 194 +12 600 25 44 4 4 15 12 6 6 2 2 10 .200 859 .086 # GOALIE GP MIN W L OTL SOL SO GA GAA SHOW SHO SHOGA SHOAA SAVES SPCT 35 Haun, Tim 17 1033:10 9 7 0 1 0 42 2.44 2 3 1 11 412 .907 33 Boucher, Nick 9 540:47 6 3 0 0 0 25 2.77 0 0 0 0 259 .912 1 Duffus, Parris 1 0:31 0 0 0 0 0 0 .00 0 0 0 0 0 .000 TOTALS 26 15 10 0 1 0 68 2.62 2 3 1 11 671 .908

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Komets to ring in 2010 with busy week Dayton visits Tuesday, Bloomington here for New Year's Eve Schrock named Rookie of the Week

Posted Monday, December 28, 2009

Fort Wayne, IN - The Komets will be busy ringing out the old and bringing in the new this week with four games slated in five nights.

The busy week starts at home against the Dayton Gems Tuesday night at 7:30pm. It will be the fourth of 15 meetings this season and the second of six in Fort Wayne. The Komets (15-10-0-1, 31 points) dulled the Gem's debut in Fort Wayne Nov. 14 in overtime 2-1 and blanked the Gems at Dayton Dec. 5 in the last meeting 3-0. Dayton (12-14-3-1, 28 points) is struggling to hold on to fifth place in the IHL after losing their last three games played and are 1-5-0-1 in their last seven games. Tuesday night's game will be the first of a home-and-home midweek series with a rematch Wednesday night at Hara Arena at 7pm.

Thursday the Komets will host Bloomington (14-9-1-2, 31 points) at 7:30pm for the 53rd Fort Wayne New Year's Eve home game. The Komets have won the last seven straight New Year's Eve games and are 35-13-3-1 in 52 Fort Wayne New Year's Eve games since the tradition started in 1955. It will be the second time the PrairieThunder spent New Year's Eve in Fort Wayne. Bloomington rang in 2008 with a 4-1 loss to the Komets in their first New Year's Eve appearance. The Komets and Thunder are tied for third place in the IHL for the third straight week as week 12 begins. Bloomington hosts Muskegon Tuesday before making the trip to Fort Wayne Thursday.

Saturday the Komets begin the New Year with a 7:30pm faceoff at Perani Arena in Flint. The Komets will have a chance to avenge their 4-1 loss at Flint Sunday. It will be the fourth of 12 meetings this season with the Komets holding a 3-1-0-0 series edge. The Generals will host Quad City Wednesday before facing the Komets Saturday.

About last week

The Komets split two games played for week 11. Saturday the Komets started the post-Christmas weekend road tour with their first win of the season in three meetings at Walker Arena in Muskegon 7-2. Sunday the Komets ended the weekend with a 4-1 setback at Flint for their first loss of the season to the Generals.

Streaking Chaulk hits 500 as a Komet .....Colin Chaulk (C) finished the week riding a five-game point-scoring streak (4 goals, 7 assists) and three-game assist streak (5 assists) while also hitting a couple milestones along the way. The veteran center marked his 500th point as a Komet with his first goal of the game at Muskegon Saturday. His second goal of the game was his 800th pro point.

Schrock named Rookie of the Week .....the IHL named Komet winger Kaleigh Schrock Rookie of the Week for the week ending Dec. 27. The Fort Wayne native contributed his first pro 2-goal performance in the Komets' 7-2 win at Muskegon Saturday. In addition to his pair of points Schrock completed the two weekend games posting a +2 and accumulating 12 penalty minutes.

Family Holiday Skate Tuesday .....a special Family Free Holiday Skate, compliments of Wendy's, will be featured immediately following the Komets home game against Dayton Tuesday. Bring your skates!

Welcome 2010 with the Komets .....free noisemakers and party favors will be handed out to the first 5,000 fans New Year's Eve when the Komets host Bloomington at 7:30pm courtesy of Technology Specialists. Also, the Komets will wear their Limited Edition Technology Specialists/Fort Wayne Children's Zoo Wild Jungle game jerseys Thursday night.

Great Komet tickets .......Still plenty of great seats available for all upcoming Komet home games. Tickets are on sale at the Coliseum Ticket Office and online at www.ticketmaster.com . Single game ticket prices for 2009-10 remain the same as last season, ranging from $8.00 to $20.00 for seniors and adults and starting at $6.00 for children. 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 .

Radio rink-side ......follow the Komets radio-rinkside with Bob Chase, in his 57th consecutive season calling Komet action on WOWO Radio AM 1190. The Komet broadcast can also be heard worldwide at www.komets.com at Comcast KometCast .

Komets.com .....the official website of the Fort Wayne Komets is www.komets.com . In addition to featuring free webcasting of live Komet game radio, Komets.com also provides fans and media with up-to-date team stats, news, interactive fan features and information. Fans can also follow all Komet games with real-time scoring via the IHL and Pointstreak by clicking the Scoreboard at Komets.com.

Komets holiday office hours

Dec. 28, 10am-4pm; Dec 29, 9am-5pm; Dec. 30, 10am-4pm; Dec. 31, 9am-3pm; Jan. 1, closed.

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