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Road Stretch Begins

November 1, 2004 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Bridgeport Islanders News Release


The Sound Tigers opened a stretch of five straight road games with a trio of shutout losses last week, falling 5-0 to the Philadelphia Phantoms Wednesday, 5-0 to the Manchester Monarchs Friday and 1-0 to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Saturday. The Sound Tigers finished last week tied with Philadelphia and the Binghamton Senators for fourth place in the East Division with eight points and a 4-5 record, including 4-1 at home and 0-4 on the road.

WED. OCT 27th at PHI, 5-0 L: Playing at the Wachovia Center, which is home of their NHL affiliate, the Philadelphia Flyers, the Phantoms were 3 for 7 on the power play, 6 for 6 on the penalty kill and received goals from five different players with 13 total posting at least one point. JOSH GRATTON, FREDDY MEYER, PATRICK SHARP, DAVID PRINTZ and TONY VOCE scored; Voce added an assist; DENNIS SEIDENBERG had two assists; and ANTERO NIITTYMAKI made 22 saves for his first shutout of the season. WADE DUBIELEWICZ made 27 saves for the Sound Tigers as Philadelphia had a 32-22 shots on goal advantage.

FRI OCT. 29th at MCH, 5-0 L: Manchester was 3 for 9 on the power play, 6 for 6 on the penalty kill and scored a shorthanded goal. CHRIS SCHMIDT, MIKE CAMMALLERI, YANICK LEHOUX, RYAN FLINN and TOM KOSTOPOULOS scored for the Monarchs; Lehoux had two assists; and MATHIEU GARON made 24 saves for his first shutout of the season. WADE DUBIELEWICZ made 22 saves for the Sound Tigers who were outshot 27-24.

SAT OCT 30th at WIL, 1-0 L: In the first meeting of the teams since Wilkes-Barre/Scranton rallied from a three games to one deficit to beat the Sound Tigers four games to three in last spring's East Division semi-finals, Penguins Goaltender ANDY CHIODO made 26 saves for his first shutout of the season, and MICHEL OUELLET scored on the power play. DIETER KOCHAN made 14 saves for the Sound Tigers who had a 26-15 shots on goal advantage. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton was 1 for 6 on the power play and 7 for 7 on the penalty kill en route to its first home win of the season.

SOUND TIGERS PLAYER OF THE WEEK – C JUSTIN MAPLETOFT

Mapletoft played solid hockey at both ends of the ice in all three games. The Lloydminster, Saskatchewan native finished last week leading the Sound Tigers with five assists and tied for the team's overall scoring lead with six points.

THIS WEEK – Road Stretch Ends With Visits To Hartford & Portland

The Sound Tigers will finish the stretch of five straight road games when they visit the Hartford Wolf Pack this Saturday and the Portland Pirates this Sunday.

SAT NOV 6th at HAR, 7:05 p.m.: This will be the second of ten meetings of the teams this season, the first of five in Hartford. The Sound Tigers are 17-11-3 all-time versus Hartford, including 0-1 this year. They were 2-2-1 on the road versus the Wolf Pack last season. Hartford won the first game of this year's season series 3-2 in Bridgeport on Saturday, October 23rd due in large part to a pair of former Sound Tigers; JEFF HAMILTON had a goal and an assist, and STEPHEN VALIQUETTE made 26 saves. The Wolf Pack finished last week in second place in the Atlantic Division with 12 points and a 6-0 record, including 3-0 both at home and on the road. Hartford is one of only two AHL teams that has not lost a game in any manner this season, along with 7-0 Manchester who ended last week atop the Atlantic Division. The Wolf Pack were slated to host the Houston Aeros Monday morning in their last game before Saturday's Sound Tigers' visit.

SUN NOV 7th at POR, 4:05 p.m.: This will be the first of four meetings of the teams this season, the first of two in Portland. The Sound Tigers are 5-3 all-time, including two overtime wins in the only meetings last year. The Pirates finished last week tied with the Worcester IceCats for third place in the East Division with ten points and a 5-3 record, including 4-2 at home. They will visit the Springfield Falcons Friday and Worcester Saturday.

SOUND TIGERS ON THE AIR

All games are web cast live at www.soundtigers.com. Most games are also broadcast live on 600 WICC-AM. All game broadcasts begin 15 or 20 minutes prior to opening face-off on the quarter hour. Fans can email questions and comments to the Voice of the Sound Tigers BILL McLAUGHLIN who will respond live on the air. Fans can also email Bill with the name of the player they'd like to hear interviewed while the team is on the road for five straight games.

SOUND TIGERS TEAM LEADERS

Goals – R. KRAFT & J. PAPINEAU, 3
Penalty Minutes – ERIC GODARD, 56
Assists – JUSTIN MAPLETOFT, 5
Wins – WADE DUBIELEWICZ & DIETER KOCHAN, 2
Points – R. KRAFT & J. MAPLETOFT, 6
Goals Against Average – DIETER KOCHAN, 2.50
Plus / Minus – Several, +2
Save Percentage – DIETER KOCHAN, .921

SOUND TIGERS SPECIAL TEAMS; AHL RANK

Power Play – 5 for 56, 8.9%; 24th
Shorthanded Goals Against – 1, t-9th
Penalty Kill – 58 for 74, 78.4%; 24th
Shorthanded Goal For – 1; t-12th

SOUND TIGERS TRANSACTIONS

D VINCE MACRI was assigned to the ECHL's Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies by the Islanders on Tuesday, October 12th.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR & PROMOTIONAL NEWS

The Team Mascot STORM, MATT KOALSKA and BLAINE DOWN will visit Osborne Hill Elementary School in Fairfield this Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. • STORM will visit the Krispy Kreme on the Post Road in Milford for "Family Fun Night" this Thursday at 6 p.m. • STORM will visit children at Rowayton Elementary School this Friday at 12 noon. • GRAHAM BELAK will take over for STORM and join the Rowayton Elementary students for reading Friday at 1:30 p.m. • Groups that are interested in having a member of the Sound Tigers appear at an event or who would like to raise funds through the sale of Sound Tigers tickers are invited to call 203-334-GOAL. • This Saturday's game will be the second of the 2004 GEICO CONNECTICUT CUP, which will be awarded to the winner of the ten-game season series between the Sound Tigers and the Hartford Wolf Pack. Season ticket holders of both teams can purchase tickets to the games in the opposing city at specially-discounted prices. Hartford full-season ticket holders will be able to purchase specially-discounted tickets to the games in Bridgeport by presenting their Wolf Pack season-ticket-holder identification card in-person at the Arena at Harbor Yard box office. Bridgeport full and 20-game season-ticket holders will be able to purchase specially-discounted tickets to the five games in Hartford by presenting their Sound Tigers season-ticket-holder merchandise-discount card in-person at the Hartford Civic Center box office. Additional information regarding the discounted ticket prices is available by calling 203-334-GOAL. • Roberto's Restaurant will sponsor the first of this season's five player-card set giveaways when the Sound Tigers return home to host the Norfolk Admirals on Saturday, November 13th at 7:05 p.m. • The second-annual "Cool Fun 101" educationally-themed morning game will take place when Norfolk visits at 11:05 a.m. on Wednesday, December 1st with half-price tickets for all students, as well as free admission for teachers and chaperones from schools that purchase in advance. All students who attend "Cool Fun 101" will also receive a workbook filled with creative lessons and activities, and there will be an essay contest.

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE

The Sound Tigers are scheduled to practice at the Rinks at Shelton Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m. They will bus to Hartford Saturday afternoon and play there that night, depart for Portland following Saturday's game and return home following Sunday's game.

SOUND TIGERS TICKETS

Individual-game tickets can be purchased at Bridgeport's Arena at Harbor Yard box office, which is open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. weekdays and 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturdays. The box office also opens at 12 noon on Sunday game days and remains open until the end of the first period during all games. Individual-game tickets can also be purchased over the phone by calling Ticketmaster at 203-368-1000 and on-line at www.ticketmaster.com. Information regarding Sound Tigers ticket packages; including 20-game and 10-game plans, flex books, suite rentals, birthday parties, group discounts and fundraisers; is available by calling 203-334-GOAL or logging on to www.soundtigers.com.

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