San Diego Hosts Final Regular Season Home Game At ipayOne Center
April 6, 2006 - ECHL (ECHL)
San Diego Gulls News Release
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Gulls will wrap up the home portion of the regular season when they host the Phoenix Roadrunners tonight at ipayOne Center. The Gulls are looking to extend their home unbeaten streak, which stands at eight games (6-0-2), and their overall unbeaten streak, which sits at five games (3-0-2).
SERIES HISTORY: The Gulls and Roadrunners have met six times so far this season with the series being all square at 3-3-0. This is the final match-up between the two clubs this year.
2005-06 HEAD-TO-HEAD SERIES:
10/28/05 San Diego 2 @ Phoenix 4
10/29/05 San Diego 1 @ Phoenix 7
11/13/05 Phoenix 1 @ San Diego 2
12/9/05 Phoenix 3 @ San Diego 2
2/24/06 San Diego 3 @ Phoenix 0
3/25/06 Phoenix 1 @ San Diego 3
VS. WEST DIVISION: The Gulls are 17-18-3 this season against the West Division and 9-7-2 at home.
LAST HEAD-TO-HEAD MEETING (MARCH 25 @ SAN DIEGO): Kris Mayotte made a successful pro debut between the pipes for San Diego with 31 saves - while even earning an assist - to lead the Gulls to a 3-1 victory over Phoenix before 8,096 at ipayOne Center. Alex Kim recorded a goal and an assist, and defenseman Grady Moore chipped in with two helpers for San Diego, which extended its home winning streak to five games and moved four games over .500 for the first time this season. The Roadrunners continued their struggles, losing their 10th straight match and 16th in their last 17 games overall. Phoenix actually drew first blood, at the 10:30 mark of the second period, but the Gulls came back to tie it before the second intermission - on a short-handed score by Steve Hildenbrand. Rob Flynn and Kim gave San Diego some breathing room with goals in the third period to round out the scoring.
GULLS UPDATE: San Diego (34-28-8) enters the day with 76 points. By way of their shootout loss Wednesday against Idaho, the Gulls clinched fourth place in the Pacific and will battle first-place Fresno in the opening round of the ECHL playoffs beginning Tuesday. They play in Fresno on Tuesday and Wednesday before hosting the Falcons on Friday and Saturday of next week in the first four games of the best-of-seven series... With a win Wednesday, Bakersfield clinched at least third place and is battling Long Beach for second... San Diego is unbeaten in its last five games (3-0-2) and 17 of its last 22 overall (14-5-3)... The Gulls are also unbeaten in eight straight games at home (6-0-2)... Out of their last 32 games, 21 have been decided by one goal... They are 20-9-6 at home this season...
PLAYER NOTES: Hildenbrand has a seven-game point streak, scoring 11 points during that span (5g, 6a). The forward sat out Wednesday's shootout loss to Idaho... Kim, who played three games with the American Hockey League's Portland Pirates last week, returned to the lineup Wednesday. But the forward saw his career-high 16-game point streak and six-game assist streak both come to an end. He still has scored 38 points (16g, 22a) in just 23 games overall for San Diego... Michael Mole is unbeaten in his last three starts, stopping 103 of 109 shots (.945 save percentage)...
PHOENIX UPDATE: Phoenix (19-46-5) starts the day with only 43 points, last place in the six-team West Division... The Roadrunners also own the fewest points in the entire ECHL and did not qualify for the playoffs... Phoenix is winless in its last 14 matches overall (0-12-2)... The Roadrunners are 9-23-2 on the road this season, including a 1-2-0 mark in San Diego... They are also winless in their past 15 road games (0-13-2)... Phoenix has held San Diego to a 3-for-59 mark on the power play in their six meetings (5.1 percent)...
TRANSACTIONS: Kim returned from Portland of the AHL on Wednesday... R.J. Enga was released Monday... Kelly Askew was activated from the seven-day injured list Saturday, while Erik Johnson was activated Friday, March 31... Rookies Jeff Winchester and Conrad Martin signed Saturday... Dennis Shiryaev was placed on the seven-day injured list Saturday, while Bobby Cunningham was placed on the seven-day injured list Friday, March 31... Richard Keyes, Darren Clark, Aaron McKenzie and Alex Rogosheske remain on IR... Tyler Weiman and David Svagrovsky remain with Lowell of the AHL...
FUTURE HEAD-TO-HEAD MEETINGS (0H, 0A): Last match-up of the season.
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