CHL Tulsa Oilers

Tonight's match up

Published on January 22, 2008 under Central Hockey League (CHL)
Tulsa Oilers News Release


*Get Used To These Guys:* The Tulsa Oilers host the Wichita Thunder tonight. The Oilers play three of their next four games and eight of their final 30 regular season games against Wichita.

*Records: *Oilers are 10-21-3 with 23 points tied for fourth place in the Northwest Division.

Wichita is 11-21-1 for 23 points tied for fourth place in the Northwest Division.

*Season Series: *This is the third of 10 meetings between the two teams. They have split the first two games, with the Oilers winning at home 4-2 on November 9^th ,a nd Wichita winning 4-3 the next night in Wichita.

*Recent Action: *The Oilers suffered their most lopsided defeat of the season Saturday night in an 8-1 loss at Oklahoma City, the third straight loss for Tulsa. Wichita is coming off a 3-2 overtime loss at New Mexico on Saturday and is 1-1-1 in its last three games.

*First Meeting: *This is the first meeting between these two teams since both made coaching changes, and thus the first head-to-head meeting between the Oilers Dan Hodge, and Wichita's Rob Weingartner. Tulsa is 5-11-2 and Wichita is 7-8-1, since their respective coaching changes.

*Still Rolling: *Jeff Christian has stretched his league leading point streak to 18 games. In that streak he has nine goals and 20 assists for 29 points. The longest streak in the CHL this year belongs to Arizona's Tyler Redenbach who had points in 21 straight games.

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*Next Up: *these teams will take a one game hiatus from each other as the Oilers host Mississippi Friday at 7:35 p.m. Wichita hosts Amarillo Friday then these two teams begin a home and home series, in Tulsa Saturday at 7:35 p.m. and Sunday at 5:05 in Wichita.

U.S. Cellular Three Stars Recap

Stay until the end of the game for the announcement of the U.S. Cellular Three Stars of the game. The U. S. Cellular Three Stars in the last Oilers Home game were:

1. Tyler Skworchinski (Texas)

2. Brett Jaeger (Texas)

3. Kevin St. Pierre (Oilers)

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