AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

Penguins look to make AHL history Wednesday

Published on November 21, 2005 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins News Release


The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins will take a shot at immortality Wednesday night, when they host the Providence Bruins at the Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza at 7:05pm.

The Penguins, off to a 16-0-1-0 start, have collected at least one point in each of their first 17 games this season, equaling the league mark for consecutive games with a point from the start of the season. The Portland Pirates previously established the record by going 14-0-3 to start the 1994-95 season.

The Penguins can already lay claim to recording the most points by any AHL team through the first 17 games of the season, having picked up 33 of a possible 34 points thus far in 2005-06.

Additionally, the Penguins carry a seven-game winning streak into the Thanksgiving eve tilt, and will take an 11-game road winning streak with them when they travel to Rochester to face-off against the Americans on Friday night.

After Wednesday, the Penguins will play five consecutive road games before returning home to take on the Manitoba Moose on Friday, December 9.

A LOOK AHEAD:

Wednesday, Nov. 23 - Providence Bruins @ Penguins, 7:05pm NOTES:

First of two meetings between the teams this season

Providence is 5-7-1-0, sixth place in the Atlantic Division

The Penguins are 3-3-1-0-1 (w-l-t-otl-sol) all-time against the Bruins, 2-1-0-0-1 at home.

Friday, Nov. 25 - Penguins @ Rochester Americans, 7:35pm NOTES:

First of two meetings with the Americans this season

Rochester is 10-7-0-0, third place in the North Division

Penguins are 4-7-6-1-0 all-time against Rochester, 1-3-4-1-0 on the road

Saturday, Nov. 26 - Penguins @ Binghamton Senators, 7:05pm NOTES:

Second of eight meetings with the Senators this season

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton took the first game, 5-1, at home on October 22

A LOOK BACK Friday, Nov. 18, PENGUINS 3 @ Norfolk Admirals 1

Marc-Andre Fleury stopped a season-high 34 shots in his first action since being returned from the Pittsburgh Penguins. Michel Ouellet picked up three points (1+2) in the win, while Matt Hussey and Guillaume Lefebvre also netted goals for the Penguins.

Saturday, Nov. 19, Norfolk Admirals 2 @ PENGUINS 3 (OT)

Chris Kelleher scored 40 seconds into overtime to give the Penguins their first victory in the extra frame since February 21, 2004, a 2-1 win against the Syracuse Crunch. Kelleher also picked up an assist in the win, while Matt Hussey chipped in with three helpers. Dany Sabourin stayed perfect at 7-0-0 on the season by making 21 saves for the Penguins.

Sunday, Nov. 20, PENGUINS 5 @ Bridgeport Sound Tigers 2

Tomas Surovy netted his third career hat trick with the Penguins, and his first since Jan. 4, 2003, as the Penguins posted their third win of the season against the Sound Tigers. Wilkes-Barre carried a 3-0 lead into the second half of the third period on goals by Surovy, Matt Hussey and Colby Armstrong, before the home team struck twice at 16:30 and 17:54. Surovy then picked up an unassisted power play tally with 1:28 to play, and followed that 54 seconds later with his third of the afternoon. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 28 shots for his ninth win of the season.

PENGUINS ROAD STREAK SITS AT 11

The Penguins have won 11 consecutive regular season road contests dating back to April 10, 2005. They ended the 2004-05 road campaign with wins against the Hershey Bears (3-2 on April 10) and the Norfolk Admirals (2-0 on April 15) and have won their first nine road games this season.

The Penguins previous record for consecutive road victories was five, set from Oct. 27, 2000 through Nov. 26, 2000.

INDIVIDUAL STREAKS

Michel Ouellet: has a 12-game point streak (9+14=23) and an eight-game assist streak (nine assists). His assist streak is one game shy of tying the team record set by Billy Tibbetts from Oct. 6, 2001 through Nov. 11, 2001 (11 assists total).

RECORD SETTING STREAKS BY SABOURIN

Goaltender Dany Sabourin has set new Penguins records for consecutive wins (seven) and consecutive wins on the road (five) this season. The former marks were held by Sebastien Caron, who won five straight games from Oct. 22-Nov. 17, 2000, and Rich Parent, who won five consecutive on the road from Nov. 3, 2000 through Jan. 11, 2001.

The team record for consecutive games unbeaten by a goaltender is eight, set by Rich Parent from Oct. 21-Nov. 18, 2001.

MISC. NOTES

Matt Hussey has at least one point in 10 of the last 11 games entering Wednesday, with 15 points (7+8) in that span. He also has points in 11 of the last 13 games, with 18 points (7+11) in that span.

Colby Armstrong has points in eight of the last nine games, with 11 points (4+7) total. He also has points in 12 of the last 14 games, with 15 points (7+8) total.

Chris Kelleher has a four-game points streak with seven points (1+6), and has 10 points in his last seven games (1+9). He also has four multi-point games in the past six contests.

INDIVIDUAL LEAGUE LEADERS (all stats as of 11/21)

Marc-Andre Fleury is first in the league with a 1.49 goals against average (15 goals against/603 minutes played), first with a .942 save percentage (15 goals against/259 shots) and is second with nine wins.

Dany Sabourin is tied for fourth with seven wins, is tied for 10th with a .921 save percentage and 11th with a 2.51 goals against average.

Michel Ouellet is second with 29 points and with 19 assists. He is also tied for sixth in the league with at plus-11.

Daniel Carcillo is tied for ninth among rookies with 14 points (7+7) Carcillo is tied for eighth overall with a plus-9 rating and is 10th with 75 penalty minutes.

Noah Welch is first overall with a plus-15 rating.

Ryan Lannon is tied for third with a plus-12 rating.

Tomas Surovy is tied for eighth with a plus-10 rating and is tied for 14th in overall scoring with 19 points (10+9).

Matt Hussey is tied for 14th with 19 points (9+10).

Alain Nasreddine is tied for third with a plus-12 rating.

Dennis Bonvie is first overall with 130 penalty minutes.

TEAM LEAGUE LEADERS (all stats as of 11/21)

Power-Play - the Penguins rank third overall with a 24.2 success rate (29 goals/120 chances).

Penalty Killing - the Penguins are second overall at 89.3% (14 goals against/131 times shorthanded).

RECENT TRANSACTIONS

11/17/05 - Marc-Andre Fleury - Returned on loan by Pittsburgh (NHL)

ON THE AIR

All Penguins games can be heard live on Oldies 92 & 100, with Tom Grace calling the action.

ON THE WEB

All Penguins games can be seen live on the internet thanks to the B2 Network. Log on to www.wbspenguins.com to watch all Penguins home and road games live.

TICKETS

Full season, partial season, group and individual tickets for Penguins home games are now on sale. For more information, contact the Penguins at 570-208-7367 or log on to www.wbspenguins.com.

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