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Moose wrap up road trip this week

March 22, 2004 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Manitoba Moose News Release


This week, the Manitoba Moose play their final road game of the season on Wednesday before finishing up the campaign with a six-game homestand. Manitoba visits Binghamton Wednesday before returning home to face Rochester Friday night and Sunday afternoon. Last week the Moose had their busiest week of the season, playing five games in seven days. The highlight of the week was a three-game winning streak through Albany, Toronto and Syracuse. The streak was bookended by a pair of losses in Hamilton on Monday and Rochester Sunday.

UPCOMING OPPONENTS

Binghamton Senators

Wednesday, March 24th 6:35 p.m.

Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena

Binghamton entered the week tied for fourth in the AHL's East Division (32- 30-7-2), one point back of the Wilkes- Barre Penguins...The B-Sens are 21- 11-2-2 at home...Manitoba won their only previous meeting at Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena on Dec. 10/03 3-0...Binghamton gained a win and a tie in their two meetings at the Winnipeg Arena on Oct. 26 & 28/03 (2-1 & 2-2)...The Senators enter the week unbeaten in four (3-0-1-0) and with only one loss in their last eight (6-1-1- 0)...Denis Hamel is the Senators' leading scorer with 28 goals and 62 points in 70 games...Hamel has a goal and an assist vs. Manitoba this season, tied with Brooks Laich, Serge Payer, and Josh Langfeld for the team-lead...Chris Kelly and Peter Smrek lead the team in +/- at +9...Brian McGrattan leads the team with 321 PIM...With Ray Emery on recall to the Ottawa Senators, Billy Thompson leads Binghamton in net with 12 wins in 32 appearances and a 2.95GAA and a .905 save percentage...Emery has Binghamton's lone win on the season vs. Manitoba, while Thompson took the lone loss...The Senators' power play is ranked 10th in the AHL at 15.7% while their penalty killing is 18th overall in the league at 84.7%.

Rochester Americans

Friday, March 26th 7:30 p.m. Winnipeg Arena

Sunday, March 28th 2:00 p.m.

The Americans (32-26-9-4) enter the week three points back of the Syracuse Crunch for second in the North Division with 77 points...They are coming off a 5-2 defeat of the Moose on Sunday thanks to a 24-save effort from goalie Tom Askey...The Amerks are 9-15-6-4 on the road...With Sunday's win, the seasonseries between the two is now tied at three wins a piece...Norm Milley is the Amerks' leading scorer vs. Manitoba with four goals and six points...Domenic Pittis leads the team overall with 15 goals and 63 points in 66 games...Rookie Ryan Miller is Rochester's top netminder with a 22-23-6 record in 49 appearances and four shutouts with a 2.27 GAA and a .923 save percentage...He has a 2-2 record vs. Manitoba with a 2.45 GAA and a .916 save percentage...Sean McMorrow leads the team with 245 PIM...Pittis leads the team at +6...Rochester's power play is secondbest in the AHL at 17.7% while their penalty killing unit is ninth at 87.1%...Former Moose captain Brian Chapman has four goals and nine points in 61 games this season with Rochester.

MOOSE NOTES

In Friday's 5-4 overtime victory over the Syracuse Crunch, the Manitoba Moose scored three power play goals for the second consecutive game. They also scored three goals with the man-advantage the night previous in Toronto. It marked the first time all season the Moose have scored three power play goals in back-to-back games and only the fourth time this season (Oct. 11/03 vs. STJ's & Dec. 16/03 at CLE) they scored three in one game.

Four members of the Manitoba Moose recorded multi-point games in Friday's 5- 4 OTW over Syracuse (Jason King 2-1- 3, Nolan Baumgartner 0-3-3, Justin Morrison 2-0-2, Brandon Reid 0-2-2).

It marked the third time this season four members of the Moose had scored more than a point in a game. However, back on Feb. 5/04, five members of the Moose recorded more than one point in Manitoba's 5-2 victory over Cleveland, while six players scored more than one point in a game on Dec. 16/03 in a 6-1 win at Cleveland.

The Moose matched a season-high threegame winning streak this week with victories over Albany, Toronto and Syracuse on consecutive nights. The three straight wins were set three previous times (11/15-22, 12/16-19, 01/31-02/06, 3/16-present). In two previous seasons, the longest winning streak establshed by the teamwas just four games.

Alex Auld's recall to the Vancouver Canucks Thursday marked the end of his streak of 14 consecutive starts. The streak matched the second highest number of consecutive starts by a goaltender with Fred Brathwaite. Brathwaite started 14 straight from February 7 to March 9, 1997. The most number of consecutive starts was set earlier this season when Tyler Moss started 17 in a row while Auld was in Vancouver. During the 14 games, Auld finished with a 7-4-2 record with a 1.95 goals-against average and .930 save percentage in just under 800 minutes of work.

Including Sunday night's game against Rochester where Manitoba went 2-for-5, the Moose have eight goals in their last 16 power play opportunities (50%).

Moose captain Dallas Eakins played in his 600th American Hockey League contest Thursday against Toronto. Eakins has scored 27 goals and aded 107 assists for 134 points to go along with 1021 penalty minutes with Moncton, Worcester, Springfield, Binghamton, New Haven, St. John's, Chicago and Manitoba.

In their two visits to Albany this season, the Manitoba Moose did not allow a single goal. Prior to Tuesday's 3-0 shutout win over the River Rats, Manitoba's last shutout on the road was a 4-0 win by Tyler Moss back on Dec. 17/03.



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