AHL San Antonio Rampage

Rampage Game Day

Published on November 23, 2004 under American Hockey League (AHL)
San Antonio Rampage News Release


Today's Game: Tonight's intra-divisional contest continues the Rampage's five-game road stand, marking the fourth game in the trip... This is the Rampage's second longest of the season (till February when the team vacates for the Stock Show & Rodeo)... San Antonio is on a three-game winless streak (0-2-0-1) heading into tonight's game and currently sit 4th in the West Division with a 6-7-2-1 record (15 pts.)... The Rampage are 2-5-1-1 on the road with their last road win coming on Oct. 30 at Grand Rapids.

Against Utah Grizzlies: Tonight's game marks the club's first trip to the ‘E' Center for the 2004-05 season, while marking their second meeting (of 10) between the two clubs this season... The Rampage 1-0-0-0 this season against Utah and are 12-6-1-0 all-time... Utah is 1-10-0-1 (3 pts) so far this season and is 0-7-0-1 at home... Utah is 1-9-0-0 in their last 10 games allowing a 4.25 goals against per game.

THE LAST TIME VS THE GRIZZLIES...

Last Home Win: October 16, 2004 (6-1)

Last Home Loss: April 10, 2004 (2-1)

Last Home Tie / SOL: None

Last Home Overtime Loss: None

Last Road Win: April 3, 2004 (3-1)

Last Road Loss: October 22, 2003 (2-1)

Last Road Tie / SOL: October 20, 2003 (1-1)

Last Road Overtime Loss: None

2004-05 SEASON SCHEDULE & RESULTS:

Home: Oct. 16 (W, 6-1), Dec. 9, Dec. 10, Mar. 19, Mar. 20

Away: Nov. 23, Nov. 24, Dec. 22, Feb. 18, Feb. 19

Miscellaneous Notes:

SCORING RAMPAGE: The Rampage's Eric Beaudoin, Joel Kwiatkowski, Gregory Campbell, Stephen Weiss, Ryan Jardine and Petr Taticek all scored their first goals of the season against the Grizzlies in their last meeting, defeating Utah 6-1. That game marks the most goals the club has scored in a single game so far this year.

BACK IT UP: The Rampage will play back-to-back games beginning tonight against Utah. So far this season, the team is 4-1-0-1 after three sets of back-to-back slates. The Rampage have 16 total back-to-back sessions slated for the 2004-05 season. The Rampage went 9-13-2-0 last season in back-to-back contests.

ONE-FIFTH DOWN: On Nov. 20 the Rampage completed one-fifth of the season (16 games) posting a 6-7-2-1 record (15 pts.), marking the club in the middle compared to the last two seasons. In the Inaugural Season, the Rampage began had a 3-6-5-1 record (12 pts.) and made the playoffs, while last year, the team compiled a 10-3-3-0 mark (23 pts.) and did not make the playoffs.

300 CLUB: Head Coach Steve Ludzik will be seeking his 300th career victory when the Rampage travel to Norfolk. Coach Ludzik has a 299-223-36-48-1 career coaching record.

ROOKIE ON A RAMPAGE: Center Greg Jacina ranks among the top in two rookie statistical categories. He ranks 3rd in shooting percentage (.208), and T-13th in points (8).

THE WEST WING: Entering tonight's game, the Rampage will finish off the month of November (3 games) against a West Division opponent. The Rampage, who are currently 5-4-2-0 against their division rivals, are slated to play 56 contests against their division foes this season. In addition, San Antonio will face two Atlantic Division opponents (HFD, WOR) totaling four games, one East Division opponent (NOR) for four games and five North Division opponents (EDM, MTB, CLE, ROC, SYR) totaling 16 games. The Rampage, were 21-32-7-0 in 60 games against West Division opponents last season.

TARGET PRACTICE: The Rampage have been out-shot in 13 of their 16 games (81.3%) this season (394-494). In those 13 games, the Rampage has given up at least 30 shots six times (two of those are above 40); most coming from the 3rd period (111-171).

GREAT SCOTT!!!: Travis Scott is currently the active-leader in AHL career shutouts. He has 21 in 260+ career games while Maxime Ouellet is in second place with 18. Scott's last shutout came against Syracuse on November 5, 2004 (5-0) at the SBC Center...The Rampage goalie set a franchise single-game record by saving 56 shots in a 4-2 victory over Cincinnati last season (Oct. 16, 2003)

LAST GAME:

Nov. 20, 2004 San Antonio 0 @ Norfolk 3 at Norfolk Scope Arena

San Antonio goaltender Patrick DesRochers started for the first time in eight games and looked sharp early on. At one point he had stopped 24 of 25 shots before allowing Mike Brown's goal at 10:34 in the third period, and Adam Munro stopped all 17 shots he faced as Norfolk beat the Rampage 3-0.

NEXT GAME:

Wednesday, Nov. 24

at Utah, 8:05 p.m. CST

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