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January 9, 2009 - Central Hockey League (CHL) News Release


1- The Colorado Eagles hit the midway point of their schedule on Wednesday night with a 3-1 victory in Rapid City. The win pushes the Eagles to 25-6-1 and to 51 points putting them on track for a 100-point season. The last CHL team to hit 100 points in the regular season was the 2003-04 Laredo Bucks notched 104 points. The Eagles are 12-3-1 at home and 13-3-0 on the road and half of their remaining 32 games are versus teams that are at or below .500. Colorado has been paced by strong goaltending namely from Andrew Penner who has not lost a game in regulation since November 1st at Mississippi. On the season, Penner is 17-1-1 with a 2.36 goals against average and a .927 save percentage.

2- The Texas Brahmas (22-9-3) have been on fire going 11-3-2 since early December and have firmly claimed their spot atop the Southeast Division with a six point lead over the second place Laredo Bucks. Texas has won six straight games overall and six straight road games (just one shy of the longest CHL road win streak this season). The Brahmas went 24-7-1 during the second half of the season a year ago and are already 2-0 during their second half this season. Jordan Cameron's 19 points (7-12=19) is pacing the Brahmas over the last two games followed by Grant Jacobsen's 14 points (7-7=14). Goaltender Brett Jaeger has won seven straight games allowing just 13 goals over that stretch. Texas should get only better when Friday night forward Travis Banga is in the line-up after being acquired from Rio Grande Valley. Banga, a two-time all-star, has scored 269 points (116-153=269) in 246 career CHL games.

3- The best team in the CHL currently is arguably the Rocky Mountain Rage. After a slow start (1-7-1 on November 8th), the Rage have rallied to get to 16-14-3 going 10-3-1 over their last 14 games. During their hot play, the Rage has allowed three or fewer goals in 10 of their last 14 games. Scott Reid is 8-1-1 in his last 10 games stopping close to 92% of the shots he has faced. David Morelli has been a pleasant surprise for Head Coach Tracy Egeland putting up five goals and 10 assists since December 1st (17 games) while recording a +9 plus/minus rating.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

.920 Rapid City's Miguel Beaudry's save percentage over his last dozen games going 6-4-2...The Rush are in the playoff hunt sitting six points from the fifth and final playoff spot in the Northern Conference

2-0-1 The Tulsa Oilers record this season at the Ford Center versus the Oklahoma City Blazers...The Oilers have won the last two games versus the Blazers in OKC and the last three overall...Kevin St. Pierre has stopped an amazing 193 shots in the five games versus Oklahoma City...All-Star Jeff Christian has nine assist in the five games...The two teams meet again in OKC on Saturday

2/2/04 The last time two teams from the Southeast Division have pulled of a trade with each other prior to this week's Travis Banga trade with Texas and RGV...The previous deal sent Trent Brandvold from Corpus Christi to Austin in exchange for Clint Way...Banga was dealt to the Brahmas fro Topher Scott, Matt Byrnes and two players to be determined later..Banga, a 2008 CHL All-Star could make his Brahmas debut on Saturday in Mississippi

3 The number of hat tricks that New Mexico's Chris Robertson and Colorado's Greg Pankewicz have scored this season...There have been 29 total hat tricks scored in the Hat Tricks for Kids program that has Infinity Pro Sports donate $25.00 for every hat tricks cored this season to the Starlight Foundation...Learn more about the program at www.hattricksforkids.org

ONE-TIMERS

-The Arizona Sundogs (17-17-1) will ride their six-game win streak back home this weekend for a pair of games versus the Southwest Division leading Odessa Jackalopes (22-9-3)...The Jacks lead the season series winning three of the five games thus far...Odessa is 11 for 47 on the power play versus the Sundogs (23.4%)

-Rapid City acquired Paul Kelly this week in a trade with the Tulsa Oilers that sent defenseman Rob Dmytruk to the Oilers...Kelly scored 26 goals and had 53 points for the Oilers last season

-Amarillo's Jake Morissette has 12 points (4-8=12) in his last 10 games and is a +4 over that stretch

-Mississippi's Jeff Nelson and Rio Grande Valley's Jesse Bennefield have each scored a goal in each of their team's last four games

-Oklahoma City has not won a game since December 26th when they won at Mississippi and are 0-4-2 in their last six games...Despite their recent struggles, the Blazers are holding on to first place in the Northeast Division with a three point lead over Bossier-Shreveport and Mississippi

-Wichita rookie Troy Ofukany has four goals and three assists in his last two games (he has 21 points on the season)

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