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Scoring In Bunches

February 15, 2010 - International Hockey League 2 (IHL 2) News Release


ROCHESTER, MI--- All seven teams were scoring in bunches this past week, scoring a total of 64 goals in the 11 games played during Week 18. Fort Wayne scored the most, tallying 16 goals over a three game span. Dayton and Quad City each recorded 10 goals over four games played. Leading the league in goals scored is currently Muskegon, who has registered 169 goals in 47 games played. Following Muskegon is Port Huron (161), Bloomington (155), Fort Wayne (148), Dayton (140), Quad City (127) and Flint (124).

Komet goaltender Nick Boucher earned his first shutout of the 09-10 season Saturday, turning aside all 19 shots he faced from the Quad City Mallards. He registered three last season with Fort Wayne, giving him his fourth shutout as a member of the Komets in three seasons.

The Flint Generals and Port Huron Icehawks played a three-game mini-series against each other this weekend, beginning in Port Huron Friday, Flint Saturday then back to Port Huron Sunday. The last- place Generals got the better end of the series, winning two of the three games against the second-place Icehawks. Flint outscored the Icehawks 6-2 in the two games they won, and outscored them 8-5 in the three games. The Icehawks won 3-2 Sunday on home ice, improving their record at McMorran Arena to 12-10-0-3.

The Flint Generals have postponed their game originally scheduled to be played tomorrow (February 16th ) at 10:30 a.m. The game was intended to be an early morning game to accommodate students from area schools, but due to conflicts with the school systems in the area, the date did not work for both the schools and the team. The rescheduled date will be announced in the coming days and fans are encouraged to hold on to their tickets that were purchased to be used for the rescheduled date.

AROUND THE "I"

Bloomington PrairieThunder (1-2-0-0)- The PrairieThunder notched its first win of the season when trailing after the first period in its 5-2 victory over Quad City on February 12th. The last three goals the PrairieThunder has scored have been of the short-handed nature and Zach Pearson has two of them. In fact, a third of the nine goals Bloomington scored last week were short-handed. Nick Elligsen scored his first professional goal in a 6-2 loss at Fort Wayne on February 10th. Bloomington has an 18-6-0-2 record on the three teams behind it in the standings and a 3-14-2-3 mark on the teams ahead of it in the standings. The PrairieThunder worn specialty sweaters for the fourth time February 12th and continued its unbeaten streak in them with a 5-2 win over Quad City.

Flint Generals (2-1-0-0)- The Generals concluded the weekend with a 2-1-0-0 record, all three against Port Huron, the second place team in the league. The three newest Generals (Dan Lapointe, Bryan Nathe, and Chris Kovalcik) have been great additions to this squad thus far. In eight games played Lapointe has five assists (three coming this past weekend against the Icehawks) and is a +5, Nathe has been great defensively earning a +4, while Kovalcik has added a big physical presence to the lineup in the six games he's laced up the skates. John Ronan needs just two games to reach career game number 300. Pascal Rheaume is four points shy of reaching 600 total career points (regular season and post season combined). John Mori leads the league in shorthanded goals with four.

Fort Wayne Komets (3-0-0-0)- Matt Syroczynski (LW) notched the Komets first three-goal game of the season Wednesday in a 6-2 home win vs. Bloomington. In addition to his hat trick, defenseman Brandon Warner posted his first career four-point night with four assists, the first time a Komet has passed four assists in a game since David Hukalo dished four Dec. 27, 2007. Saturday at Quad City goalie Nick Boucher posted his first shutout of the season 5-0 on 19 saves. Sunday the Komets capped the week with a 5-2 victory at Bloomington for a three-game winning streak. Goalie Tim Haun extended his home win string to seven games with Wednesday's win over Bloomington. Defenseman Frankie DeAngelis has a three-game point streak (2g, 2a). Center Colin Chaulk has points in three straight games (1g, 3a).

Muskegon Lumberjacks (2-0-0-0)- Muskegon's current 10-game home win streak is two victories shy of the club record 12 consecutive home wins set back in the 1996-97 season. When the -'Jacks swept the two-game home-and-home series this past weekend over Dayton, they ran their winning streak over the Gems to six in a row. The Lumberjacks have been a dominant team with the best first period record in the IHL, outscoring their opposition overall 65-35. When the 'Jacks scored three or more goals this season, they have achieved a record of 28-1-0-2. Right Wing Michel Beausoleil (499) will reach 500 career pro points with his next point. Goaltender Matt Lundin has achieved the IHL's best winning percentage at 13-3-0-1 for a mark of.794.

Port Huron Icehawks (1-2-0-0)- Goalie Adam Russo spent the weekend with the Italian national team participating in the 2010 Euro Ice Hockey Challenge, turning in two spectacular performances. Russo stopped all 64 shots he faced, including a 35-save effort in an overtime win against Austria. Italy won all three of their games, allowing just one goal all weekend. With Russo in Italy, Larry Sterling made three starts in three nights. Sterling turned in a spectacular effort in Sunday night's win against Flint, doing everything it took to help his team avoid a five-game losing streak. Sterling stopped 34 of 36 shots, turned away a John Mori penalty shot, and chipped in with assists on two of Port Huron's three goals. Sterling and Russo have three assists each this season and are the highest scoring goaltending duo in the IHL.

Quad City Mallards (1-3-0-0)- The Mallards lost back-to-back road games last weekend and have won just one of their last nine away games, going 1-7-0-1 during that stretch. Patrick Levesque recorded the Mallards' first hat trick of the season- a natural hat trick, in fact- in last Wednesday's 6-3 win over Dayton. Levesque has now posted six multiple goal games this season. The Mallards yesterday hurled 40 shots at the Dayton net- the second time this season Quad City has put 40 or more shots on goal in a game. One night earlier the Mallards had surrendered a league single period season high 26 shots in the second period of a loss to Fort Wayne. Kyle Jones matched a league single period season high by making 24 saves in the second period last Saturday.

Dayton Gems (1-3-0-0)- This week the Gems will kick off the Air Force Aid Fundraiser at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Coach Marks will be turning over a donation of $3,000 to Base Commander Bradley Spacy. The Gems held an auction of special camouflage jerseys on Wright Patterson Night at Hara Arena on January 29th. In the past 10 games the Gems leading scorers have been: John Snowden with six goals and three assists for nine points, A.J. MacLean with two goals and four assists for six points and Tim Hartung (in seven games) with six assists. At home scoring leaders for the season are John Snowden who in 22 games had nine goals and seven assists, Mike Vaskivuo in 24 games with eight goals and eight assists and Jon Ornelas in 24 games with nine goals and five assists.



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