AHL San Antonio Rampage

San Antonio Rampage Weekly

Published on January 26, 2004 under American Hockey League (AHL)
San Antonio Rampage News Release


LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

RAMPAGE UPDATE: The Rampage faced four games in five days against the West Division this week. Spending most of the week on the road, the Rampage struggled to a 3-2 loss in Cincinnati on Wednesday. Kent Huskins netted a power play goal in the first period and Kristian Kudroc scored 2:22 in the second, marking his first goal with San Antonio. The road trip to Grand Rapids gave new addition goalie, Marco Emond, a shot in the goal after Travis Scott sacrificed four goals on 20 shots to the Griffins, suffering the shutout, 5-0. Emond waived off nine of the ten attempts made on goal. Mike Green opened up the challenge against Milwaukee on Saturday granting Greg Jacina his first assist since being called up from Augusta. The Admirals answered with two goals in a 2:11 span, leaving the remaining two periods scoreless and the Rampage with a 2-1 loss. Taking the team back home for Sunday night's first-time encounter against Syracuse, Lee Goran scored late in the first period and Denis Shvidki scored a power-play goal 95 seconds into the second to bring the Rampage within one goal of the Crunch. Josh Olson cut the loss to 4-3 before the Rampage fell 5-3 to extend their winless streak to five games (0-4-1-0).

FLORIDA PANTHERS UPDATE: Facing three of four opponents at home, the Panthers broke even on the week's play, 2-2-0. Last Monday, the Cats took on St. Louis and earned a hard-fought point in a 2-1 overtime loss. Robert Luongo stopped 32 of 34 shots in the net and captain Olli Jokinen scored his third goal in two games, improving the Panthers to 5-1-3-1 in their last 10 home games. Facing Colorado two nights later, the Panthers scored give goal's against the NHL's top team. Stephen Weiss, Juraj Kolnik and Valeri Bure combined for three goals and four assists in the contest. Pavel Trnka and Marcus Nilson brought the Cats even with the Avalanche but fell, 6-5, to a hat trick goal late in the third. Closing out the week, Florida claimed two consecutive wins against Washington, 4-1, and Boston, 2-1, on Friday and Saturday respectively.

THE WEEK AHEAD

DATE TIME MEDIA LOCATION

FRIDAY, JAN. 30 7:00 PM Radio: 760 KTKR vs Chicago




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