Moose Earn Four Points In Week 16

January 18, 2010 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Manitoba Moose News Release


The Manitoba Moose were 2-2-0-0 in Week 16 picking up two wins against the Abbotsford Heat before dropping two losses to the Milwaukee Admirals. Manitoba now sits third in the North Division with 51 points -- only eight points back from the first-place Hamilton Bulldogs.

Tuesday, January 12, 2009: Manitoba 4, Abbotsford 3 (OT) The Manitoba Moose made their first visit to Abbotsford a memorable one with a 4-3 overtime decision over the Heat in front of a sold-out crowd of 7,046 fans at the Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre on Tuesday night. Eric Walsky netted his second goal of the season, Marco Rosa collected two markers while Lawrence Nycholat notched his first goal of the campaign to confirm the game in overtime.

Wednesday, January 13, 2009: Manitoba 3, Abbotsford 0 For the second night in a row and fifth time this season the Moose beat the Abbotsford Heat - Wednesday night by a 3-0 decision in front of a sold out crowd at the Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre. Mathieu Schneider scored his first-ever goal in antlers while Guillaume Desbiens netted his seventh and eighth of the season. Starting goaltender Cory Schneider was flawless making 34 saves for his third shutout this campaign.

Friday, January 15, 2009: Manitoba 2, Milwaukee 7 For the second time this season the Moose surrendered seven goals in a 7-2 loss to the Milwaukee Admirals in front of 6,893 fans at MTS Centre on Friday night. All of Manitoba's offence came from the blueline as defencemen Travis Ramsey and Mathieu Schneider netted the pair of Moose goals. Both Cory Schneider and Manitoba product Rejean Beauchemin saw ice-time in the loss.

Saturday, January 16, 2009: Manitoba 2, Milwaukee 6 The Manitoba Moose dropped a 6-2 decision to the Milwuakee Admirals on Saturday night to finish 0-3-1-0 against the club this regular season. Marco Rosa and Sergei Shirokov provided the only Moose offense for the 8,453 fans at MTS Centre while Cory Schneider stopped 23 of 29 shots in the loss.

Moose Notes

SIX-DAYS AWAY: The Manitoba Moose are embarking on their seventh road trip of the season where they will play three consecutive doubleheaders against the Hershey Bears, Worcester Sharks and Wilke-Barre/Scranton Penguins. The Moose are 9-8-2-0 on the road so far this season. Manitoba's most recent road trip brought two wins on Jan. 12 (4-3OTW) and Jan. 13 (3-0W) when visiting the Heat in Abbotsford. Over eight AHL seasons, the club's best road season was last year when they posted a 25-10-1-4 record (0.687). The Moose are currently on a two-game road winning streak - their longest this season.

UNLUCKY 13: By dropping back-to-back 7-2 and 6-2 losses to the Milwaukee Admirals last weekend, the Moose gave up 13 goals. This is only the second time in Manitoba's AHL history that they have given up 13 goals in consecutive games against the same opponent. The last time this happened was in 2001-02 when the Moose surrendered 13 goals to the St. John's Maple Leafs (February 8, 2-6L & February 10, 4-7L).

Upcoming Opponents

The Manitoba Moose are visiting Hershey for the first and only time this season to close-out their four-game regular season set with the Bears this weekend. Manitoba has yet to win a game against the Bears, holding a 0-1-0-1 record so far this campaign. The last time the Moose earned two points against the Bears was on June 9, 2009 in Game 5 of last year's Calder Cup Finals. Historically, Manitoba is 4-5-0-1 against their Pennsylvania opponents.

Player of the Week Nominee

For the first time this season, Mathieu Schneider is nominated for AHL Player of the Week... Schneider earned his first-ever point as a Moose on Jan. 12 at Abbotsford when he recorded a helper on the game-tying goal to force overtime... The Moose won 4-3 in the extra period and Schneider finished the night with four shots... The next night, the veteran defenceman continued his points streak when he recorded his first-ever Moose goal in a 3-0 shutout victory over the Heat... His goal was the game-winner and he scored it on the powerplay... Despite suffering a 6-2 loss on Jan. 15 vs. Milwaukee, Schneider scored his second goal in as many nights, again on the powerplay, and finished the night with four shots... The only game of the week he was held pointless was Jan. 16th, also against the Admirals, but he finished the night a plus-1... In six games with the Moose this season, Schneider has recorded three points (1g, 2a) along with two penalty minutes...



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