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January 1, 2010 - Central Hockey League (CHL) News Release


December to Remember

The CHL wrapped up 2009 and the month of December with seven games last night including a battle between the two teams with the highest winning percentages in the month of December, the Odessa Jackalopes and Texas Brahmas. The Jacks won the game 4-2 behind two goals from Kory Karlander. As a result of winning last night, Odessa finishes the month of December with a 9-1-1 record and Texas ends up the final month of the year with a 7-2-2 mark. Other top teams in the month of December are the Colorado Eagles and Rapid City Rush, both finishing 10-2-0, as well as the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs who went 8-3-1 in December and the Allen Americans who finished up 7-3-1. At the other end of the spectrum, the Wichita Thunder finished the month at 0-11-1 and the Tulsa Oilers wound up 4-8-0.

CHL All-Decade Team

The league introduced its All-Decade Team this week with the First Team consisting of forwards Greg Pankewicz, Jeff Bes and Travis Clayton, defensemen Derek Landmesser and Bernie John and goaltender Ken Carroll. The Second Team is made up of Don Parsons, Jason Duda and Riley Nelson at forward slots, Hardy Sauter and Aaron Schneekloth as defenseman and Rod Branch as the goaltender.

2010 All-Star Game Around the Corner

The 2010 CHL All-Star Game is coming up on Wednesday, January 13 in Laredo, Texas at the Laredo Entertainment Center. The rosters for the teams were announced this past week with the format of this year's game featuring a South Texas team of all-stars comprised of players from the host team Laredo Bucks, the Corpus Christi IceRays and the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees taking on a team of CHL All-Stars from the remaining 12 teams. The starters for the South Texas team are Laredo's Darryl Smith (forward), Adam Rivet (defenseman) and Jean-Philippe Levasseur (goaltender), Corpus Christi forward Justin Quenneville and Rio Grande Valley forward Jesse Bennefield and defenseman Nathan Ansell. The CHL team is made up of forwards Rob Hisey (Tulsa), Riley Nelson (Colorado) and Justin Bowers (Allen) along with defensemen Aaron Schneekloth (Colorado) and Alex Dunn (Odessa) and goaltender Joel Martin (Odessa).

All-Stars Making Noise in the AHL

A pair of CHL All-Stars are currently on call-ups with the American Hockey League as both Rob Hisey (Tulsa) and J.P. Levasseur (Laredo) are on the roster of the Springfield Falcons (top affiliate of the NHL's Edmonton Oilers). The Falcons have not had much success this season sitting in the basement of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference with a 10-18-7-2 record but Hisey made an immediate impact scoring a goal and adding an assist in his first game (a 3-2 OT loss to Providence) and then scoring a goal in his team's loss on the very next night. Levasseur has not had the results in the win/loss column as he did with the Bucks losing eight straight starts in the AHL. He is 17-31-5 all-time in the AHL playing in parts of three seasons in the league.

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BY THE NUMBERS

8- The current win streak of the Odessa Jackalopes who are in first place in the Southern Conference with a 24-4-3 overall record. The Jacks extended their win streak last night with a win over Texas marking the second time this season they have won eight straight games (first time was from Oct. 27-Nov. 17). Odessa hosts Amarillo tonight at the Jack Shack.

6- The current road point streak of the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs who came-from-behind on Wednesday to beat the Texas Brahmas 4-3 in a shootout. The 'Bugs are 5-0-1 in their last six road contests and will look for seven straight on Friday night when they play the Corpus Christi IceRays who have won three straight games for the first time this season after last night's 5-2 win at Laredo. All three wins for the Rays have comes against the Bucks.

0- The number of goals that Tulsa forward Adam Bartholomay had in his first 19 CHL games before scoring a hat trick in last night's 3-2 overtime win versus Mississippi.

11- The number of one-goal losses handed to the Arizona Sundogs this season including Thursday's 3-2 loss to the RGV Killer Bees. Arizona is 3-8-3 in games decided by a goal and have lost each of their last three one-goal decisions. The Sundogs get another crack at the Bees on Saturday night.

SLAP SHOTS

-The Texas Brahmas and Colorado Eagles will meet at the NYTEX Sports Centre on Saturday night for the first time since May 6, 2009 when the Brahmas hoisted the Ray Miron President's Cup after beating the Eagles four games to one. It will be the final regular season meeting between the two teams. The clubs split two games in Colorado on opening weekend.

-The Wichita Thunder have lost 17 straight games (0-15-2) and are struggling mightily on their power play scoring just once in their last 48 chances and sitting last in the league at 8.5%. The CHL record for consecutive losses is 21 set by the 1999-2000 season by the Memphis RiverKings. Last night, the Thunder was shutout for the second time in three games and for the fifth time this season.

-On a franchise record three-game win streak, the expansion Missouri Mavericks had a sold out crowd last night but allowed two goals in the first 2:19 to the Colorado Eagles and eventually fell 5-1. The Mavs play at Mississippi on Friday night.



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