Rays Look to Extend Home Winning Streak Tonight against Augusta
Published on January 15, 2008 under ECHL (ECHL)
South Carolina Stingrays News Release
South Carolina is looking for its eighth consecutive victory at home, which would be the most since winning eight straight from Dec. 20, 2006-Feb. 11, 2007 ... Augusta has won an ECHL-high 16 home games this season, but just five on the road ... Slattengren, recently sent back to Augusta from the AHL's Manitoba Moose, is tied for the ECHL lead with 27 goals ... Morin leads the ECHL with four short-handed goals ... The Stingrays have been outshot 365-327 in the 3rd period this season, but have outscored their opponents 46-25 ... Augusta C Igor Pohanka was shipped to Anaheim as part of a seven-player trade that saw former NHL All-Stars Jeff Friesen and Oleg Tverdovsky come to the New Jersey Devils in July 2002 ... Since turning pro in 1997-98, Peters, the older brother of Buffalo Sabres enforcer Andrew Peters, has skated in the AHL (Portland, Norfolk, Rochester, Milwaukee), IHL (Indianapolis, Cleveland), ECHL (Columbus, Trenton, Reading, Augusta), and BISL (Manchester) ... Ferguson is in his 26th season as a head coach.
6 Degrees of Separation
Slattengren and Stingrays F Marty Guerin played together for two seasons with the Omaha Lancers (USHL) ... Guerin and Augusta LW Ryan Dingle were teammates for all or parts of two seasons with Des Moines (USHL) ... Dingle and Stingrays rookie Matt Scherer spent the 2002-03 season with Tri-City of the USHL ... Guerin and Lynx LW Matt Christie played together at Miami University (Ohio) from 2003-2007 ... Chris Chaput and Augusta's Bobby Goepfert, Eric Lundberg, Jason Platt, and Chase Watson were teammates at Providence College ... During his portions of two seasons with the Texas Wildcatters, Augusta D Tim Branham played with South Carolina's Davis Parley and Grant McNeill.
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2007-08 Records
South Carolina: 22-12-1-1, 46 points (3rd place, South Division)
Augusta: 21-14-0-3, 45 points (4th place, South Division)
Last Time Out
The Stingrays defeated the Texas Wildcatters 4-2 Sunday night in Beaumont, TX, snapping the Wildcatters' ECHL-record 23-game point streak. Travis Morin collected two points, including a short-handed goal which stood as the game-winner, and Josh Johnson made 39 saves as South Carolina took two of three games over the weekend against Texas. Augusta, meanwhile, defeated Mississippi 4-1 Saturday evening at home.
Stingrays vs Lynx, Head-to-head in 2007-08
1-1-0
Stingrays vs Lynx, All-time
39-22-12
Head Coaches
South Carolina: Jared Bednar (1st year)
Augusta: Bob Ferguson (3rd year)
NHL Affiliate
South Carolina: Washington Capitals
Augusta: Anaheim Ducks
AHL Affiliate
South Carolina: Hershey Bears
Augusta: Portland Pirates
Veterans
South Carolina: Cail MacLean, Matt Reid
Augusta: Louis Goulet, Geoff Peters
Top Scorers
South Carolina: Travis Morin (16-21-37), Pierre-Luc O'Brien (4-26-30), Cail MacLean (11-15-26)
Augusta: Aaron Slattengren (27-16-43), Louis Goulet (10-25-35), Matt Auffrey (13-16-29)
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