AHL Peoria Rivermen

Rivermen Weekly

Published on November 10, 2008 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Peoria Rivermen News Release


Friday, November 28 - Jennette McCurdy, "Sam" from Nickelodeon's "iCarly" TV show, will be in attendance to sign autographs; presented by US Cellular. Canned food drive to benefit "Friendship House" and all who donate will receive a free Upper Bowl ticket.

WEEK FIVE IN REVIEW (2-0-0)

DAY DATE OPPONENT RESULT RIVERMEN GOALS RIVERMEN GOALIE (GA/SV)

Wed. 11/5 Rockford IceHogs 3-1 W Junland, Whitfield, Regier Marek Schwarz (1/34)

Sat. 11/8 Grand Rapids Griffins 5-3 W Reaves, Conner, Talbot, Strachan, Junland Marek Schwarz (3/14)

Vs. Rockford (11/5): The Peoria Rivermen held the most potent power-play unit in the league off the board and scored two power-play goals of their own to beat the Rockford IceHogs 3-1 at Carver Arena on Wednesday night. Marek Schwarz was strong down the stretch as he made 16 saves in the third period and 34 overall to earn his second victory of the season. Trent Whitfield's power-play goal with 8:56 remaining in the third period broke a 1-1 tie as he slipped the rebound from a Nicholas Drazenovic shot past Corey Crawford. Peoria finished 2-for-4 on the power play while Rockford went 0-for7.

Vs. Grand Rapids (11/8): The final five goals of the game were all scored by the Peoria Rivermen as they rallied to defeat the Grand Rapids Griffins 5-3 on Saturday night at Carver Arena. The Rivs held the Griffins to a total of eight shots over the final two periods and shut down a team that was averaging almost 35 per game. Grand Rapids jumped out to an early lead with a pair of power-play goals within 43 seconds of each other in the first period. Ryan Reaves cut the lead in half at 13:11 of the first but a penalty shot goal from Ryan Oulahen gave the Griffs back a two-goal lead halfway through the second. Chris Conner and Julian Talbot scored in the final 2:22 of the second period to tie the game and Tyson Strachan scored the game winner at 11:58 of the third.

TEAM LEADERS

THIS SEASON THIS WEEK

POINTS Regier - 14 Regier/Junland - 3

GOALS Regier - 8 Junland - 2

ASSISTS Lemtyugov - 7 Regier/Wozniewski - 2

POWER PLAY 17-for-84, 20.2% 3-for-9, 33.3%

PENALTY KILL 58-for70, 82.9% 9-for-11, 81.8%

NEWS AND NOTES

Home Cooking... The Rivermen are 6-1-1 at Carver Arena this season giving them the best home winning percentage in the league at this point. Hartford (6-3-0) is the only other AHL to that has six wins. Peoria is outscoring the competition 28-19 on home ice.

3 of a kind...Three different goalies have contributed at least two wins each to get the Peoria Rivermen their first seven wins of the season. Ben Bishop (2-2-0), Marek Schwarz (3-3-0) and Chris Holt (2-0-0) make the Rivermen one of only three teams in the AHL with three goalies having multiple wins. Eight other teams (Bridgeport, Chicago, Hershey, Lowell, San Antonio, Syracuse Worcester and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton) have used three goalies at this point in the season and no one has used four.

Filling in the schedule...In the 18 days leading into Wednesday's match up with Quad City (Oct. 25 - Nov. 11) the Rivermen played just six games and they were all at home. Over the next 18 days (Nov. 12 - Nov. 29), the Rivermen will play nine times with six of them coming on the road to finish out the month.

500 Club...Trent Whitfield sits just one point shy of 500 in his career (regular season). He has registered 203 goals and 296 assists in 753 pro games. He has skated in three different leagues (ECHL, AHL, NHL) for seven different teams in 11 seasons. Whitfield accumulated four points in 21 playoff games as well.

Coming to America... Jonas Junland tallied his first two professional goals in North America over the past week. The native of Linkoping, Sweden has tallied four goals in 97 career games in the Swedish Elite League. He will turn 21 years old on Saturday.

WEEK SIX PREVIEW

Quad City Flames

National Hockey League Parent Club Calgary Flames

Record 5-8-1-0

Standings Points (Relative to Rivermen) 11 (-4)

West Division Standing t-6th

Rivermen Record Against 2-0-0

Leading Scorer Jamie Lundmark (2g, 11a - 13pts)

Starting Goaltender Matt Keetley (4-7-0, 2.27 GAA, .914 sv%)

AHL Power-Play Rank 20th - 14.6% (12-for-82)

AHL Penalty-Kill Rank 17th - 83.1% (64-for-77)

San Antonio Rampage

National Hockey League Parent Club Phoenix Coyotes

Record 2-9-0-1

Standings Points (Relative to Rivermen) 5 (-10)

West Division Standing 8th

Rivermen Record Against 0-0-0

Leading Scorer Brett MacLean (4g, 4a - 8pts)

Starting Goaltender Al Montoya (1-5-0, 2.87 GAA, .897 sv%)

AHL Power-Play Rank 25th - 11.1% (8-for-72)

AHL Penalty-Kill Rank 10th - 86.3% (63-for-73)

Rockford IceHogs

National Hockey League Parent Club Chicago Blackhawks

Record 7-6-0-0

Standings Points (Relative to Rivermen) 14 (-1)

West Division Standing t-3rd

Rivermen Record Against 1-0-0

Leading Scorer Petri Kontiola (5g, 7a - 12pts)

Starting Goaltender Antti Niemi (4-3-0, 1.83 GAA, .833 sv%)

AHL Power-Play Rank 3rd - 21.8% (17-for-78)

AHL Penalty-Kill Rank t-13th - 84.1% (69-for-82)

*All statistics as of 11/10/08

RECENT TRANSACTIONS

Nov. 9 - Ben Bishop (G) returned on loan from St. Louis (NHL)

Nov. 7 - Martin Houle (G) released from P.T.O

Nov. 6 - Chris Holt (G) returned on loan from St. Louis (NHL)

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