Rivermen Weekly
Published on November 12, 2007 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Peoria Rivermen News Release
RIVERMEN PROMOTIONS
Friday, November 16
COCA-COLA "Two for $22" FRIDAY NIGHT - Present any Coca-Cola can at the PCC box office and receive two upper bowl tickets for just $22.
Saturday, November 17
WIN! VIP Meet and Greet with John Black (Drake Hogestyn) of NBC's Days of our Lives, presented by Reflections Tannery in association with WEEK-TV Channel 25 and American Airlines. Sign up to win at www.rivermen.net/fanzone/win. Hogestyn will also sign autographs for the general public from 6:30 - 8:30 pm.
Rivermen Calendar Giveaway Night! The Peoria Rivermen will give away 5,000 full-color team calendars to fans attending Saturday night's game, so make sure you get to the game early!
W.D. Boyce Council Night - local Boy Scout troops will be in attendance from the W.D. Boyce Council on Saturday as well. If your troop hasn't signed up yet, give the Rivermen a call today at (309) 676-1040 for more information or to place your ticket order.
Radio: All 80 games, home and away, are broadcast live on your NEW Home for Rivermen Hockey, 96.5 ESPN RADIO. All broadcasts begin one half-hour before game time with the Voice of the Rivermen, Tom Callahan.
Internet Audio: LIVE streaming audio of all Rivermen games is available for no charge at www.rivermen.net.
Internet Video: LIVE streaming video with the accompanying audio feed is available at www.rivermen.net through the facilities of the b2 networks. The video Web cast of each game is available for a pay-per-view fee of $6.
WEEK 6 - RIVERMEN ACTION (1-1-0-1)
Tuesday, November 6 - PEORIA 3 @ Iowa Stars 4 (SO)
Toby Peterson notched the hat trick in regulation to spoil two goals from Trent Whitfield and 27 saves from Marek Schwarz as the Iowa Stars notched a 4-3 shootout victory on home ice. Junior Lessard and Trevor Byrne also recorded a pair of assists in the win for Iowa.
Friday, November 9 - PEORIA 3 vs. Iowa Stars 6
Peterson once again drove the offense for the Stars, scoring twice while Joel Lundqvist notched a goal and two assists as Iowa took both halves of a home-and-home series. Jean-Guy Trudel, Trent Whitfield, and Nikolay Lemtyugov scored for the Rivermen in the contest.
Saturday, November 10 - PEORIA 5 vs. Rockford IceHogs 4 (OT)
Peoria got in the win column for the week when they came from behind to down the Rockford IceHogs 5-4 in overtime on Saturday night. The Rivermen erased a 2-0 Rockford lead with a pair of first period goals from Jeff Woywitka and Mike Glumac, but Bryan Bickell's first of two goals made it 3-2 after the first period. Woywitka and Bickell traded goals before Trent Whitfield evened the game with a power play goal at 5:01 of the third period to force overtime. It was there Nicholas Drazenovic fired the rebound off a Chris Porter deflection past Wade Flaherty to give Peoria the win. Marek Schwarz earned the win, stopping 16-of-18 shots in relief of Juuso Riksman.
SCOUTING THE AEROS
National Hockey League Parent Club: Minnesota Wild
Record Entering This Week: 5-7-1-0
Standings Points (Relative to Rivermen): 11 (-3)
West Division Standing: T-7
Western Conference Standing: T-12
Rivermen Record Against: 1-0-0-0
Leading Scorer: Erik Reitz (5-9-14)
Starting Goaltender: Barry Brust (3-5-0-0, 2.57 GAA, .913 save %)
AHL Power-play Ranking Entering This Week: 29th - 9.1% (8-for-88)
AHL Penalty-kill Ranking Entering This Week: 18th - 82.4% (75-for-91)
SCOUTING THE RAMPAGE
National Hockey League Parent Club: Phoenix Coyotes
Record Entering This Week: 8-5-1-2
Standings Points (Relative to Rivermen): 19 (+5)
North Division Standing: T-2
Western Conference Standing: T-3
Rivermen Record Against: 0-1-0-0
Leading Scorer: Joel Perrault (7-7-14); Jon DiSalvatore (4-10-14)
Starting Goaltender: Josh Tordjman (6-2-0-0, 3.15 GAA, .899 save %)
AHL Power-play Ranking Entering This Week: 19 - 15.2 % (17-for-112)
AHL Penalty-kill Ranking Entering This Week: 16th - 82.8% (106-for-128)
MILESTONES
Jeff Woywitka's two-goal performance was the first by a Rivermen defenseman this season
Charles Linglet now has a point in his last nine games (1-8-9) after notching assists against Quad City Friday and Rockford Saturday, the longest current AHL point streak
Trent Whitfield has goals in his last four consecutive games, the second-longest active and overall AHL streak this season
Peoria's road penalty kill is still perfect at 28-for-28 in five games this season.
Nicholas Drazenovic has points in his last four games (3-3-6)
RECENT RIVERMEN TRANSACTIONS
11/08/2007 Jason Bacashihua (G) Peoria DEL Recalled from loan by St. Louis (NHL)
11/07/2007 Erik Johnson (D) Peoria DEL Recalled from loan by St. Louis (NHL)
11/07/2007 Juuso Riksman (G) Peoria ADD Reassigned by St. Louis (NHL) from Farjestads BK (SWE)
11/05/2007 Erik Johnson (D) Peoria ADD Conditioning loan from St. Louis (NHL)
American Hockey League Stories from November 12, 2007
- P-Bruins Home Opener Wednesday - Providence Bruins
- Rivermen Weekly - Peoria Rivermen
- Stars Roll to Fourth Straight - Iowa Chops
- Bruins Head Home At Top Of Atlantic - AHL
- Tuesday's Matinee Continues Griffins Tradition - Grand Rapids Griffins
- Sound Tigers Weekly - Bridgeport Islanders
- Crunch Announce Details of Turning Stone Playing Card Giveaway Night - Syracuse Crunch
- Worcester Spangs Falcons - Worcester Sharks
- Phantoms Weekly - Adirondack Phantoms
- Hamilton's Bulldogs Hit The Road For Games In Hartford And Binghamton This Weekend - Hamilton Bulldogs
- Crunch Takes One of Two - Syracuse Crunch
- Amerks look ahead to rare one-game weekend - Rochester Americans
- Jim McKenzie and Derek Smith assigned to Binghamton - Binghamton Senators
- Hogs Defenseman Sawyer Reassigned To Ice Pilots - Rockford IceHogs
- Wolf Pack Weekly - Connecticut Whale
- Wolf Pack and Connecticut State Police Assist Foodshare - Connecticut Whale
- Offense Leads To Rockford To Ubeaten Week - Rockford IceHogs
- Phantoms' Potulny named Rbk/AHL Player of the Week - AHL
- Rangers recall Moore - Connecticut Whale
- Houston Aeros weekly update - Houston Aeros
- Leighton's 3rd Shutout Pulls Albany Ahead of Binghamton - Albany River Rats
- Wild reassigns Schaefer to Houston - Houston Aeros
- Wolves weekly - Chicago Wolves
- Moose weekly - Manitoba Moose
- Monarchs Weekly Report - Manchester Monarchs
- Fretter And Painchaud return to Wolves from Gwinnett - Chicago Wolves
- B-Sens weekly - Binghamton Senators
- Lashoff & Rask return to P-Bruins - Providence Bruins
- Columbus recalls Beech and Westcott from Syracuse - Syracuse Crunch
- Sharks take 4 of 6 points on road trip - Worcester Sharks
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