San Diego Looks To Continue Hot Play At Home

Published on February 16, 2005 under ECHL (ECHL)
San Diego Gulls News Release


SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Gulls, who are 11 games over .500 at home, look for their first win against the North Division Wheeling Nailers when the two square off tonight at the Sports Arena.

SERIES HISTORY: This is the third all-time meeting between the Gulls and Nailers and first-ever at the Sports Arena. San Diego and Wheeling have clashed twice this season (both games in Wheeling), with the Nailers holding a 2-0-0 series edge. Tonight is the last regular season match-up between the West Division Gulls and North Division Nailers.

2004-05 HEAD-TO-HEAD SERIES:
02/04/05 San Diego 3 @ Wheeling 4 (overtime)
02/06/05 San Diego 0 @ Wheeling 3

LAST HEAD-TO-HEAD MEETING (FEB. 6 @ WHL): It was a scoreless duel heading into the third period, but the Nailers scored three times in the final frame and cruised to a 3-0 shutout. Wheeling netminder Joe Exter only had to face 15 shots in the contest, but stopped them all. Ferhi, arguably the better goaltender in the game, stopped 32 shots, but suffered the hard-luck loss. Cam Paddock, Rick Gorman and former Gull Cliff Loya tallied for the Nailers.

GULLS UPDATE: The Gulls (25-17-5) enter the day fifth in the West Division, three points behind the fourth place Fresno Falcons and seven points back of the third-place Alaska Aces... San Diego, however, has two games in hand on Fresno and has played one fewer game than Alaska... The Gulls are 11 points behind the first-place Bakersfield Condors... The Blue and Orange are 16-5-2 at home and 9-12-3 on the road this season... They've outscored their opponents 88-65 at home, but have been out-scored 76-55 on the road... The Gulls are 4-6-1 in their last 11 games... They've been out-shot 343-264 and out-scored 31-21 in their last 10 games...

OTHER NOTES: San Diego is 4-6-1 against teams outside of its division, including a 2-2-0 mark at home... The Gulls have one more game this season against a non-divisional opponent (March 27 vs. Gwinnett)... San Diego has the eighth ranked power play in the league (18.1 percent) and the second-best at home (21.9 percent)... It's penalty killing, however, is 27th in the league (78.1 percent)... The Gulls have allowed two-or-more power-play goals in 14 games... Curtis Brown has five points (2g, 3a) in his last three games... San Diego has six players that have scored 10+ goals (Brian Gornick – 18, Sean O'Connor – 15, Max Birbraer – 12, Sylvain Deschatelets – 11, Guillaume Fournier – 11 and Mark Pederson – 10)...

WHEELING UPDATE: Wheeling (28-17-2) begins the day tied with the Toledo Storm for first place in the North Division, both with 58 points apiece... The Nailers are in the midst of a six-game road trip, five of which are against West Division teams. So far they are 0-3-0 after getting swept in a three-game series last weekend in Alaska... Before it's three-game losing skid, Wheeling won six straight and was unbeaten in 12 of 14 games (10-2-2)... The Nailers have combined for an ECHL-high eight shutouts, three of which were attained by Exter... Wheeling is the second-best defensive club in the league, only allowing 2.26 goals a game... It's offensive, however, is 25th in the league, scoring an average of 2.49 goals a game...

TRANSACTIONS: NHL veteran defenseman Dave Karpa was signed Saturday... Mike Garrow was placed on the injured list today with concussion-like symptoms on Saturday... Sean Murphy was activated from the 30-day injured list Friday... Scott Borders remains on the seven-day injured list with a quad contusion... Evgueni Nourislamov and Wes Rypien all remain on the 30-day injured list...

FUTURE HEAD-TO-HEAD MEETINGS: Last regular season match-up

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