AHL Peoria Rivermen

Rivermen Weekly

Published on March 15, 2010 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Peoria Rivermen News Release


UPCOMING PROMOTIONS

Sunday, March 21 - ActOnEnergy.com presents WMBD/Rivermen Environmental Action Day, co-presented by CityLink. First 1,000 fans receive an energy efficient light bulb kit. Comcast/Journal Star/Fun on the Run/Coke Family Day. Just $1 admission for kids 12 and under. Hot dogs, chips and Cokes for $1 each from 2-3 p.m. Inflatable games, balloon art and face painting plus a postgame skate with the team. TICKETS

Saturday, March 27 - History of Hockey Night - Team will wear Peoria Prancers jerseys that will be auctioned off after the game to benefit Children's Hospital of Illinois. First 1,000 fans will receive an Arby's Jonas Junland player card. TICKETS

WEEK 24 IN REVIEW (1-2-1-0)

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

Tues. 3/9 @ San Antonio 6-5 OTL Lars Eller, Pascal Pelletier, Barry Tallackson, Jonas Junland, Julian Talbot Ben Bishop (4/20) / Joe Fallon (2/22)

Wed. 3/10 @ Texas 3-2 L Justin Fletcher, Pascal Pelletier Joe Fallon (3/20)

Fri. 3/12 @ Houston 4-3 W Lars Eller, Nicholas Drazenovic (2), Chris Porter Joe Fallon (3/28)

Sun. 3/14 @ San Antonio 5-2 L Chris Porter, Nicholas Drazenovic Joe Fallon (4/35)

@ San Antonio (3/9): The Peoria Rivermen scored the final four goals of regulation to force overtime but fell 6-5 to the San Antonio Rampage at the AT&T Center on Tuesday night. Pascal Pelletier (goal, two assists) and Brett Sonne (three assists) led the attack for the Rivermen while Joe Fallon made 22 saves in relief of Ben Bishop in goal. READ MORE

@ Texas (3/10): The Peoria Rivermen had seven chances on the power play Wednesday night but converted just once in a 3-2 loss to the Texas Stars at Cedar Park Center. The Rivermen held leads of 1-0 and 2-1 but Aaron Gagnon's goal at 5:26 of the third broke a 2-2 tie to send his team to victory. READ MORE

@ Houston (3/12): The Peoria Rivermen trailed the Houston Aeros 2-0 in the opening 10 minutes but rallied to win 4-3 at the Toyota Center on Friday night. Chris Porter's goal with only 3:13 remaining in regulation broke a 2-2 tie while Nicholas Drazenovic added his second of the night minutes later on an empty net. READ MORE

@ San Antonio (3/14): San Antonio's three second-period goals shot them out in front of Peoria and finished the game with a 5-2 win over the Rivermen on Sunday afternoon at the AT&T Center. The loss stopped the Rivermen from jumping over the Rampage into fifth place and five points back of Milwaukee. READ MORE

TEAM LEADERS

THIS SEASON THIS WEEK

POINTS Pelletier/Eller - 46 Pascal Pelletier - 6

GOALS Nicholas Drazenovic - 19 Nicholas Drazenovic - 3

ASSISTS Pascal Pelletier - 33 Sonne/Pelletier - 4

POWER PLAY 64-for-310, 20.6% 5-for-21, 23.8%

PENALTY KILL 238-for-296, 80.4% 13-for-19, 68.4%

NEWS AND NOTES

Where they stand...The Rivermen currently sit in sixth place of the West Division with 70 points. Peoria is now just seven points back of fourth-place Milwaukee for the final playoff spot. The Rivermen have two games in-hand on both San Antonio and Houston who are also vying for that playoff berth.

Production swap...The Rivermen are averaging 3.43 goals per game over their last seven contests in which they have gone 4-2-1. They had scored just 2.33 goals per game over their previous six.

On the road again...The Rivermen started a seven-game road trip in Milwaukee last Sunday. It is their longest trip of the season. The Rivermen will play 7 of their last 13 games away from home. They are 13-15-1-4 on the road so far this season and 2-2-1 so far on their current trip.

Draz doubles up...Nicholas Drazenovic picked up two goals on Friday against Houston. It was his second two-goal game in the past nine after being held to one or fewer in the first 57 of the season.

Lovers Quarrel...Mitch Love's fight with J.P. Testwuide on Friday was the 100th regular season fight of his five-year AHL career. He has 13 this year after leading all of professional hockey with 34 fights last season with Houston.

Making up ground...Of Peoria's 13 remaining games, only nine of them are against West Division opponents. Wednesday will be their final head-to-head matchup with San Antonio while they see Milwaukee two more times (April 2, 6) both on the road.

Best of the West...The West Division is the only division of the AHL in which all teams have a winning percentage of over .500. The 68 points earned by seventh-place Houston is the most among any last place team in the league and the 22 points between first and last in the West is the fewest between pair in the other divisions.

WEEK 25 PREVIEW

San Antonio Rampage

National Hockey League Parent Club Phoenix Coyotes

Record 32-28-3-6

Standings Points (Relative to Rivermen) 73 (+3)

West Division Standing 5th

Rivermen Record Against 3-3-1-0

Leading Scorer Brett MacLean (26g, 29a, 55pts)

Starting Goaltender Josh Tordjman (16-17-2, 2.87 GAA, .905 sv%)

AHL Power-Play Rank 6th - 19.8%

AHL Penalty-Kill Rank 8th - 84.1%

Rockford IceHogs

National Hockey League Parent Club Chicago Blackhawks

Record 40-25-3-3

Standings Points (Relative to Rivermen) 86 (+16)

West Division Standing 2nd

Rivermen Record Against 4-2-0-2

Leading Scorer Bracken Kearns (15g, 33a, 48pts)

Starting Goaltender Corey Crawford (20-14-2, 2.80 GAA, .905 sv%)

AHL Power-Play Rank 22nd - 15.8%

AHL Penalty-Kill Rank 10th - 83.7%

Texas Stars

National Hockey League Parent Club Dallas Stars

Record 37-23-3-4

Standings Points (Relative to Rivermen) 81 (+11)

West Division Standing 3rd

Rivermen Record Against 4-2-0-1

Leading Scorer Aaron Gagnon (20g, 26a, 46pts)

Starting Goaltender Matt Climie (18-16-3, 2.42 GAA, .920 sv%)

AHL Power-Play Rank 11th - 18.6%

AHL Penalty-Kill Rank 3rd - 86.1%

RECENT TRANSACTIONS

03/12/2010 Matt McIlvane (F) ADD Signed to PTO

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