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Shots from the Point

Published on October 25, 2010 under Central Hockey League (CHL) News Release


The Land of the Unbeatens- After two weeks in the 2010-11 season, there are two perfect squads, one in each conference, with the Allen Americans sitting 5-0-0 and the Bloomington PrairieThunder are 3-0-0. The PrairieThunder's route has been a touch more thrilling for their fans as they have won once in regulation, once in a shootout and once in overtime. All three victories for Bloomington have come by one goal. Allen has won by two goals or more in four of their five victories. Bloomington hosts Evansville and Dayton this week looking to stay unblemished and Allen will be tested immensely hosting Bossier-Shreveport on Tuesday and then heading to Rapid City for a pair of games on the weekend.

Home Ice Advantage- The Dayton Gems (3-1-0) have taken advantage of the schedule winning three of four games on their four-game season-opening home stand. The Gems play just once between now and November 5th, in Bloomington on Saturday night (Oct. 30). Dayton then returns home for another four-game home stand that will see them host Fort Wayne, Arizona and a pair of games versus Colorado. Last week, Dayton topped Quad City and Odessa and were led by goaltender Jeff Jakaitis who turned away 66 of 71 shots (.930 save percentage). Dayton's top line of Chris Lipsett, Brett Lutes and Jonathan Ornelas have combined for five goals and 11 assists this season.

Welcome Home- On Thursday, the Odessa Jackalopes will become the 18th and final CHL team to play their home opener when they host the Laredo Bucks on Thursday night (Oct. 28) at the Jack Shack. Odessa struggled on their season-opening four-game road trip winning just once and allowing five goals in each of their three losses. The Jacks are 20-15-2 all-time versus Odessa owning the series more recently winning nine of the last 11 regular season meetings. Odessa went 26-4-2 at home last season on their way to winning the CHL regular season championship.

Busy 'Bugs Keep on Trucking- The Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs will complete their over-loaded month of October this week with games on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday giving them nine tilts in the opening month. So far they are no worse for the wear posting a 4-2-0 record and sitting all alone in second place in the Berry Conference, two points behind conference-leading Allen. The Mudbugs and the leaders will go at it for the third time this season on Tuesday night in Allen and then the Mudbugs return home for a match-up versus Rio Grande Valley on Thursday and finish the month on Saturday at Missouri.

Numbers Game

:20- The amount of time it took for the Mississippi RiverKings to get their first win of the season on Saturday night over the Missouri Mavericks. The 'Kings were behind 3-0 after one period but battled back with a power play goal from Darrell Stoddard at the 16:10 mark of the final period and the game winner from R.G. Flath at the 16:30 mark creating the difference.

4:41- The amount of time in the first period it took Daniel Koger of the Laredo Bucks to record a hat trick in his team's 4-3 overtime loss at home to the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees. All three strikes came even strength and the first-year Buck leads the team with five goals on the season. No other player has more than one goal for Laredo.

6- The current league-leading point streak of Bossier-Shreveport's Justin Aikins who has four goals and six assists on the season. His 10 points are second to only his teammate Brett Smith, 11 points.

55%- The percentage of shots that Colorado's Scott May has converted to goals in his past two games. May has been on fire recently scoring five goals in his last two contests, both wins for the Eagles versus Rapid City. May has eight points (6-2=8) on the season and is coming off a week that had him notch seven points (5-2=7) in two games. His efforts have earned him the Oakley CHL Player of the Week for October 18-24.

25.5- The number of shots on goal that the Wichita Thunder have allowed this season ranking first in the CHL.

5-0- The margin of goal difference for the Arizona Sundogs in the third period this season as they have scored five of their 11 goals and have held their opponents to a league-low 28 shots on goal in the final frame.

Slap Shots

-Odessa's Sebastien Thinel needs one point for 600 pro points and Colorado's Riley Nelson is one point shy of 600 as an Eagle

-Quad City's Zac Pearson has scored four of his team's eight goals on the season

-Dating back to last year's post-season, the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs have dressed 10 different goaltenders in their last 16 games. In last week's four games, the 'Bugs used four different goaltenders including Jeff Harvey, Archie Henderson, David Cacciola and Brian Foster

-The Killer Bees are the only CHL team that has scored the first goal in all of their games this season

-Allen has been on fire in the third period this season outscoring the opposition 11-3

-Prior to Saturday's game, Texas signed forward Dan Riedel who scored 41 points (18-23=41) last season with Tulsa

-Evansville veteran defenseman Mario Larocque is tied for the league lead with two game winning goals, the most among all d-men

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