AHL Manchester Monarchs

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Published on January 27, 2003 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Manchester Monarchs News Release


Games This Week:
Friday, January 31, Hartford at Manchester, 7:35 p.m.*
Saturday, February 1, Portland at Manchester, 1:05 p.m.**

*The first 3,000 fans at that game will receive a free Monarchs T-Shirt, courtesy of Crowley Foods.

**The Monarchs and the University of New Hampshire host the "Maine Event" on Saturday, February 1 at the Verizon Wireless Arena. On Saturday the Monarchs are scheduled to entertain the Portland Pirates at 1:05 p.m. The Wildcats have scheduled a game vs. the University of Maine Black Bears on the same day at 7:00 p.m. Sellouts are expected for both games.

For ticket information to future Monarchs games, call (603) 626-7825.

Sher-Wood Player Of The Week Nomination: Pavel Rosa

Rosa scored the Monarchs first goal on Saturday at the Springfield Civic Center, breaking a team scoreless drought that had reached 84 minutes and 36 seconds. Rosa's 18 goals and 39 points lead the Monarchs, as do his 161 shots on goal.

Rosa Week 16 Totals:
Rosa vs. Portland: 0-0-0, 0 PIM, 7 Shots, Minus-1
Rosa vs. Springfield: 1-0-1, 0 PIM, 3 Shots, Plus-1 Totals: 1-0-1, 0 PIM, 10 Shots, Even

Monarchs Notables: Last result: 3-3 tie at Springfield, January 25
Record: 26-10-5-3, 60 points
Streak: Winless in 2
Next game: January 31 vs. Hartford
Captain Dane Jackson snapped a nine-game goal drought by scoring his fifth of the season on Saturday vs. the Springfield Falcons...The Monarchs surrendered a two-goal third period lead before settling for a 3-3 tie with the Falcons on Saturday...Only once before had the Monarchs let a third period lead slip away...The Monarchs lost to the Bridgeport Sound Tiger in overtime on November 27 after entering the third period with a 2-1 lead...The Monarchs are 16-0-1-1 when leading after two periods this season...The Monarchs have been shutout three times this season, twice by the Portland Pirates...Goaltender Maxime Ouellet made 35 saves in the Pirates 4-0 win over the Monarchs on Friday in Portland...Sebastien Charpentier made 35 saves in Portland's 4-0 shutout win over the Monarchs on November 10...The Monarchs have been shutout in each of their last two visits to Portland and they've gone exactly 120 minutes without a goal against the Pirates...Jared Aulin last scored against the Pirates, netting a game-winning goal in overtime at Portland on November 2...Through five games, the Monarchs are just 3 for 36 on the power play vs. the Pirates for a conversion rate of 8.3 percent...The Monarchs conversion rate against the rest of the league is 22.4 percent...The Monarchs have gone 21 straight power plays against the Pirates without converting a power play goal...Michael Cammaleri's seven-game scoring streak came to an end when he failed to record a point vs. the Pirates on Friday...Cammalleri, who has 20 points (5g, 15a) in 13 games with the Monarchs this season, collected an assist vs. the Falcons on Saturday...Credit Derek Bekar with the longest Monarchs scoring streak this season...Bekar recorded two goals, eight assists and 10 points during an eight-game scoring streak which lasted from November 23 to December 6...Cammalleri had four goals, 11 assists and 15 points during his scoring streak...Scott Barney was recalled by the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday, making him the 15th player to skate with both Manchester and Los Angeles this season...Rookie Dan Welch has registered an assist in three of his last four games...Welch also has a plus-4 rating in his last four games. Pavel Rosa has three goals in his last four games and eight goals in his last 10 games.

Kings Notables:

Last result: 2-1 win (OT) vs. New Jersey, January 25 Record: 19-22-4-4, 46 points Streak: Won 1 Next game: January 27 vs. San Jose The Kings ended a four-game losing streak Saturday with a 2-1overtime triumph over New Jersey...Ziggy Palffy got his team-leading fourth game-winner with 70 seconds to go in overtime...The goal came off a drop pass from Derek Armstrong, who scored the other goal Kings goal...The Kings improved to 9-12 in one-goal decisions with the win...The Kings climbed within five points of Anaheim for the final Western Conference playoff berth...The Kings, who close a three-game homestand tonight at STAPLES Center, are 11-11-1 at home this season...San Jose, which is one point behind the Kings in the Pacific Division, also enters tonight's game on a winning note after an impressive 4-1 win over the Minnesota Wild on Saturday....Scott Barney, recalled by the Kings on January 25, made his NHL debut vs. the New Jersey Devils on the same day...Barney, out of hockey for three seasons because of serious back problems, recorded no points and no penalty minutes in nearly 15 minutes of action.

Kings Injury Report (as of 1/27/03)
Ken Belanger - post-concussion symptoms (suffered 11/5/02 at San Jose); has missed 36 games.
Adam Deadmarsh - concussion-like symptoms; has missed 19 games.
Eric Belanger - back strain; has missed six games.
Kip Brennan - knee sprain (suffered 1/16/03 at Edmonton); has missed four games.
Lubomir Visnovsky - knee sprain (suffered 1/18/03 at Calgary); has missed three game.
Brad Chartrand - groin strain; has missed two games.

Week 16 Transactions:
1/25/03 Add Tomas Zizka (D) assigned to Manchester (AHL)
1/25/03 Delete Scott Barney (W) recalled by Los Angeles (NHL)
1/23/03 Delete Jeff Giuliano (LW) assigned to Reading (ECHL)
1/22/03 Add Michael Cammalleri (C) assigned to Manchester (AHL)
1/21/03 Delete Tomas Zizka (D) recalled by Los Angeles (NHL)

Week 16 Recap:

January 24, Portland 4, Manchester 0: Springfield, MA - The Manchester Monarchs and the Springfield Falcons thrilled a near capacity crowd of 6,735 fans before settling for a 3-3 tie at the Springfield Civic Center on Saturday night. The draw extended the Monarchs road winless skid to three games. The Falcons increased their home ice unbeaten streak to four games after rebounding from a two-goal third period deficit.

The Falcons Jason Bonsignore collected his ninth goal at 6:50 of the third to make it a one-goal game. Darcy Hordichuk and Erik Westrum assisted. Eric Healey's 17th goal five minutes earlier had staked the Monarchs to a 3-1 lead. Rookie Michael Cammalleri and netminder Cristobal Huet earned assists on the Healey's goal, scored at 1:56. The Falcons completed the comeback late in regulation with an extra attacker as Brian Holzinger avoided a pair of Monarchs attempts to block his shot from the slot with less than a minute to play. Holzinger patiently skated to the left, found an opening, and scored with 40 seconds remaining to send the game to overtime. Sheldon Keefe, drafted in the first round (47th overall) by the Tampa Bay Lightning at the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, took advantage of weak defensive zone coverage to score the game's first goal late in the opening period. Keefe was left with a clear lane to the Monarchs net after both Cammalleri and defenseman Jason Holland failed to cover him out of the corner. Keefe swept into the crease and slipped a backhanded shot past Huet at 17:11. Holzinger and Frank Banham assisted on Keefe's second goal.

Pavel Rosa netted the Monarchs first goal in over four periods, tying the game by placing his team-leading 18th goal into a wide-open net at 4:36 of period two. Moments before goaltender Jean-Marc Pelletier had evacuated the Falcons net and sprinted toward the Springfield bench thinking a delayed penalty was about to be charged to the Monarchs. Rosa settled a loose puck near the Monarchs blue line, and then sent a shot toward the unprotected net for his seventh power play goal. Captain Dane Jackson put an end to his personal nine-game goal drought by banging Dan Welch's no-look pass from behind the Falcons net past Pelletier for his fifth goal at 14:46 of the period. Jerred Smithson also assisted on the goal, which gave the Monarchs their first lead.

January 25, Manchester 3, Springfield 3:

Portland, ME - Maxime Ouellet's league-leading seventh shutout propelled the Portland Pirates to a 4-0 North Division win over the Manchester Monarchs at the Cumberland County Civic Center on Friday night. The loss was the Monarchs first in five games and second straight to the Pirates, who also shutout the Monarchs 4-0 in Portland on November 10. Ouellet backstopped the Pirates to the win, their first in three games, with 35 saves.

The standout goaltender was aided by an excellent penalty-killing effort as the Pirates held the Monarchs and their top-ranked power play unit scoreless on five chances. Including Friday, the Monarchs have converted just three of 36 power play opportunities in their season series with the Pirates, which is now deadlocked through five games at 2-2-1.

The Pirates opened a sizable first period lead by scoring three goals on just 10 shots. Peter Ferraro, who with his twin brother Chris Ferraro was celebrating his 30th birthday, netted two of the three scores while upping his goal total to 12 on the season. His short-handed goal 3:40 into the game put the Pirates on the board, and his power play marker at 13:11 staked the Pirates to a two-goal lead. Jean-Francois Fortin made it 3-0 Pirates with his first goal at 16:29. Meanwhile, Ouellet silenced the aggressive Monarchs attack with 17 first period saves.

The Pirates played an efficient middle period, limiting the Monarchs to a total of six shots. The Monarchs produced their best scoring chance of the period while enjoying the man-advantage as Michael Cammalleri, in his first game back since being assigned by the Los Angeles Kings to the Monarchs on Wednesday, ripped a wrist shot off the right post with 10 minutes to play. Ouellet preserved the shutout, the Pirates 10th overall, by stoning Cammalleri's backhander in the crease with less than four minutes remaining in the game. Ouellet's save produced a Pirates odd-man rush and eventually Chris Ferraro's power play goal, at 16:32.

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