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February 13, 2009 - Central Hockey League (CHL) News Release


1- The hottest team in the CHL is the RGV Killer Bees who have won five straight games heading into their pair of games this weekend at Corpus Christi. The Bees are coming off their first win in Laredo since November 28th, 2006 on Tuesday with a 5-4 win. The Bees have gotten to within four points of the Bucks in the Southeast Division for second place. RGV has outscored their opponents 22-13 over their win streak with Jesse Bennefield leading the way with 12 points (6-6=12) in his last six games. Christian Boucher has been the team's workhorse playing in the last 10 games (6-4-0 over that stretch). The Bees are 6-1-0 this season versus Corpus Christi.

2- The balance of power in the Southern Conference will be at stake this weekend when the Odessa Jackalopes (30-12-5) play the Texas Brahmas (31-12-4) on Friday and Saturday at the NYTEX Sports Centre. The teams have split two games thus far (both at NYTEX) with two games remaining in the season series after this weekend (Feb. 21 and Mar. 7). The Brahmas are currently one point ahead of the Jacks in the Southern Conference. Texas has lost back-to-back games and Odessa's slide continued on Wednesday night (a 5-0 loss to New Mexico) with their fourth straight loss (0-2-2). Odessa boasts the two top scores in the league with Dominic Leveille (70 points) and Sebastien Thinel (66 points).

3- Colorado Eagles (36-8-2) Head Coach Kevin McClelland will see his old club for the first time at the Budweiser Events Center on Friday and Saturday when the Mississippi RiverKings (29-14-3) visit. 'Mac' posted a 100-77-15 record in three seasons as the bench boss with the 'Kings. The two teams met in early November for a pair of games in Mississippi and the RiverKings, under new Head Coach Kevin Kaminski, left an impression as the first team to beat the Eagles this season ending Colorado's eight-game win streak to start the season. The team's split the two games. Mississippi will be without their leading goal scorer Bobby Chaumont (25 goals) who was placed on the 14-day injured reserve (retroactive to February 6th). The 'Kings are 6-1-3 in their last 10 games. Colorado is coming off a 5-3 victory on Wednesday over Arizona clinching a playoff spot amazingly before Valentine's Day. The Eagles have been to the post-seasons in each of their six seasons.

Joining the 700-Club - Corpus Christi's Chris Richards is just two points away from joining the CHL's 700-Club. The veteran center has 230 career goals and 468 career assists giving him 698 points. Only four players in the history of the CHL have accumulated more points than Richards (Joe Burton, Travis Clayton, Doug Lawrence and Jason Duda).

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

02/15/05 The last time that the Corpus Christi IceRays defeated the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs at the CenturyTel Center prior to Tuesday's 3-1 Rays victory...The win also snapped the Mudbugs seven-game win streak

4 The number of consecutive games that Arizona's Chris Bartolone has scored a goal in...The veteran defenseman had four goals in his first 44 games before his recent streak

22-5 The goal difference between the Rage and the Thunder during the two team's last five meetings, all Rocky Mountain wins...The Thunder won the first two meetings of the season before the Rage's five-game win streak...The two teams meet on Friday night in the final regular season meetings between the two NW Division rivals

1-6 The Rapid City Rush's record in shootouts this season with the first and only win coming on Wednesday in a 2-1 victory over Amarillo...Jon Pelle scored both Rapid City goals in the game including the shootout game winner

49 The number of consecutive power play chances the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs had killed off before Tuesday's PP goal by Jeremy Leroux in Corpus Christi's 3-1 victory...The Mudbugs are second in the league killing off 86.2% of the man advantage chances they face

TIDBITS

-The Colorado Eagles won the season series versus the Arizona Sundogs with Wednesday's 5-3 win...Most impressively was the Eagles power play versus the Sundogs scoring 16 goals in 39 chances (41%)...Ryan Tobler scored eight goals in the five games, seven of which came on the power play...Tobler leads the league with 17 power play goals

-Odessa's Juha Toivonen played his first game since January 9th on Wednesday in New Mexico and stopped 36 of 41 shots in the 5-0 loss....The rookie is 9-4-1 on the season with a 2.82 goals against average

-Simon Watson (RMR) has eight goals and three assists in his last eight games...His eight-game point streak is tied for the longest active point streak in the league (NMX's Chris Robertson)

-The New Mexico Scorpions have won three straight games for the first time this season...The Scorps have outscored the opposition 14-6 over their win streak with goaltender Kyle McNulty posting all three wins with a .918 save percentage...Craig Macdonald has three goals and two assists over the three-game win streak

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