Victoria Salmon Kings This Week

Published on December 10, 2007 under ECHL (ECHL)
Victoria Salmon Kings News Release


SALMON KINGS HEADLINES: The Salmon Kings and the Roadrunners met for the fifth time in 10 days at the US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday night. Victoria took the first four games over the last week and a half, but all four wins took at least overtime to determine a winner. The first period saw both teams play an up tempo game that put pressure on the goaltenders to make great saves. Both the Kings' Billy Thompson and Dave McKee did just that, but Victoria eventually got to McKee. Jordan Krestanovich scored his fifth of the season as he beat McKee on the glove hand side for a 1-0 Salmon Kings lead. That's how the teams would go to the dressing rooms after 20 minutes of play. The second period started with a flurry of action. First Phoenix took advantage of a Victoria turnover and scored 12 seconds into the period. A few minutes later the Roadrunners took the lead when Sean O'Connor scored on a wrap around. The Kings' Chris St. Jacques tied it at 2-2 less than a minute later when his shot found the glove side top corner. O'Connor would score his second and put Phoenix up 3-2 before the period would end. The Kings sent a flurry of shots towards Phoenix goaltender McKee, but were unable to put one past him, and the Roadrunners prevailed 3-2. Victoria went 0/5=0.0% and Phoenix was 0/2=0.0% on the power play. Victoria outshot Phoenix 46-21.

VS FRESNO: The Salmon Kings tied the eight game regular season series with Fresno with a 4-4-0 record.

- Nov. 9 in VIC: Falcons 3 Salmon Kings 6. Milan Gajic 1g-3a, Kiel McLeod 2g.

- Nov. 11 in VIC: Falcons 5 Salmon Kings 2. Brady Leisenring and John Wroblewski 1g-1a each.

- Nov. 12 in VIC: Falcons 3 Salmon Kings 4. Wes Goldie 2g, Bryan Bridges 41 saves.

- Dec. 17 at FRE: Salmon Kings 1 Falcons 3. Josh Prudden 1g-2a, Luke Curtain 2a.

- Jan. 5 at FRE: Salmon Kings 1 Falcons 4. Rob McFeeters 1g-2a, John Morlang 1g-1a.

- Jan. 7 at FRE: Salmon Kings 1 Falcons 3. John Wroblewski 2g, Dustin VanBallegooie 2a.

- Mar. 2 at FRE: Salmon Kings 3 Falcons 1. F.P. Guenette and Paul Ballantyne 1g-1a each.

- Mar. 3 at FRE: Salmon Kings 4 Fresno 3 SO. Julien Ellis 34 saves, Marc-Andre Bernier shootout winner.

INSIDE THE SEASON SERIES

Shots: Fresno 304 Victoria 256 Power plays: Victoria 9/58=15.5% Fresno 9/52=17.3%

DID YOU KNOW... Dating back to last season the Kings are 24-6-0 in their last 30 games. Victoria is the least penalized team in the ECHL accumulating 323 PIM through the first 21 games of the season. That is an average of 15.4 PIM per game.

CAREER WATCH: Darryl Lloyd is one game shy of 200 as a professional.

ECHL TOP 10: Ash Goldie is tied for third in goals (14), is second in power play goals (8), and is tied for fourth in game winning goals (3). Milan Gajic is tied for 10th in assists (15) and tied for eighth in power play assists (9). Wes Goldie is tied for first in shorthanded goals (2) and is tied for the lead in game winning goals (4) as well. Kevin Estrada is tied for 10th in shorthanded assists (1). Jordan Krestanovich is tied for eighth in shorthanded goals (1). Daniel Rahimi is tied for 10th in shorthanded assists (1). Julien Ellis is tied for fourth in wins (9) and is tied for fifth in shutouts (1).

STREAKS: Jordan Krestanovich has points in three straight games (2g-4a). Derek Krestanovich has assists in the last two games (2a). Kevin Estrada has points (2g-3a) in the four of the last five games. Ash Goldie has six points in four of the last five games (3g-3a). Marc-Andre Bernier has points in four of his last five games (2g-2a).

CONTRACT PLAYERS: The Salmon Kings have six players under contract to NHL and AHL teams... Marc-Andre Bernier (Vancouver, NHL), Patrick Coulombe (Vancouver, NHL), Julien Ellis (Vancouver, NHL), Daniel Rahimi (Vancouver, NHL), Matt Kelly (Manitoba, AHL) and Dylan Yeo (Manitoba, AHL).

SPECIAL TEAMS: The Salmon Kings are eighth in the ECHL going 23-117 (19.7%) on the power play, and are 12th in the league on the penalty kill by stopping their opponents 83.9% (94-112) of the time.

THE ROSTER: Victoria is currently carrying 21 players; (12 forwards, 7 defensemen and 2 goalies)

UPCOMING GAMES: The Salmon Kings head to California for their next three games on December 14th (Fresno),15th (Bakersfield) and 16th (Fresno). The Kings return to the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre on Wednesday, December 19 versus the Alaska Aces for the first of a three game set.

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