Fort Wayne, IN --- The Komets became the first IHL team to reach the 80-point plateau by completing week 20 of 2007-08 sweeping all three games played to improve to 39-12-5-1 for 84 points and a 21-point lead over second-place Port Huron with six weeks and 19 games remaining.   -IHL Standings-

The Komets reached 80 points with a 4-2 home win against Bloomington Friday in their 55th game of the season. Last season (106 points) it took 61 games for Fort Wayne to reach 80 points. The Komet's record for most points in a season is 112 set four times (1983-84, 1985-86, 1991-92 and 2003-04). Most recently, in 2003-04, the Komets hit 80 points after 56 games.

Friday's Komet win marked their 16th straight home victory. The Komets have not lost at home since Dec. 21 vs. Kalamazoo.

The PrairieThunder became the first team to complete their schedule of visits to Fort Wayne. The Komets took the series of eight games in Fort Wayne 7-1-0.

Saturday the Komets turned back the Thunder in Bloomington 3-1. The Komets will face the Thunder once more when they travel to Bloomington April 4.

Sunday the Komets finished the weekend with a 5-2 win at Flint and evened the season series on Perani Arena ice at 2-2-1. The Komets have seven more meetings slated against the Generals.

Feb. 6 game to be made up this Wednesday at 7:30pm.....The Flint Generals will visit Wednesday this week to make up the game missed on Feb. 6 due to inclement weather preventing the Generals from traveling to Fort Wayne. Tickets for the postponed Feb. 6 Komet game, Komet home game ticket #24 (IHL game #134), will be honored for this Wednesday's game. In addition, Wednesday's game has been designated to be another season ticket holder "Season Ticket Exchange Night". Unused season tickets for previously scheduled Fort Wayne home games can be exchanged for tickets to this Wednesday's Komet home game against Flint.

Wednesday's game will be the fourth of eight Flint visits with the Komets holding a 3-0-0 edge in Fort Wayne and leading the season series 5-2-1. The Generals slipped into third place last week and begin the week one point behind second-place Port Huron. Flint is riding a three-game losing streak.

The Komets will travel to Muskegon Friday for a 7:30pm faceoff at Walker Arena. The Komets dropped the Fury 3-2 at Muskegon Feb. 22 in the last meeting to push their season series to a 6-3-1-1 lead. The Fury are coming off a 3-2 overtime win against Port Huron Sunday and will skate at Bloomington Wednesday before hosting the Komets Friday.

Saturday the Komets return to Fort Wayne to begin a home-and-home series with the IceHawks at 7:30pm on Coliseum ice. The IceHawks are idle this week until Saturday's game in Fort Wayne. The mini series switches to McMorran Arena in Port Huron Sunday at 3pm. Port Huron moved into second place after week 20, only one point ahead of third-place Flint.

Saturday is U.S. Army Night as the Komets will wear special U.S. Army jerseys to be auctioned at the game. Saturday is also the final Scout Night of the season with a large number of various scouts attending the game.

All Komet games this week are slated to air on Fort Wayne radio. Wednesday's Komet home game is slated to air on WKJG/ESPN Radio AM 1380. Games Friday, Saturday and Sunday can be heard on WOWO AM 1190 with Bob Chase calling the action radio-rinkside. All games broadcast can also be heard free on the internet at komets.com Comcast KometCast.

Got Tickets.....tickets for all 2007-08 Komet home games are on sale at the Coliseum Ticket Office and online at www.ticketmaster.com. The Komets offer discounts on group tickets sold at the Komet office at 1010 Memorial Way in Fort Wayne. For more information on season tickets and group ticket sales, visit the Komet office, call 260-483-0011 or visit the Komets online at www.komets.com.

Leading Komets.....Luciano Aquino (RW) 61 points, 10 power play goals.....Aquino and Mathieu Curadeau (C) 27 goals.....Colin Chaulk (C) 39 assists.....Chaulk (C) 7 game winning goals*.....Sergie Durdin (D) +27*.....Mitch Woods (RW) 238 penalty minutes*.....netminder Kevin Reiter 23 wins*.....goaltender Nick Boucher 2.17 goals-against average* and .918 save percentage*. (*-IHL highs)   -Komet teamstats-

Shooting Komets: The Komets have outshot opponents in 16 straight games. Fort Wayne had outshot opponents by at least 10 shots in 11 consecutive games before being held to only 27 shots against the General's 23 at Flint Sunday. The Komets are averaging a league-high 34.3 shots per game and allowing an IHL low 26.4 shots per game.

Streaking Komets: Three players had points in each Komet game played last week. Colin chaulk (C) extended his point-scoring streak to six games (3g, 3a), P.C. Drouin (LW) has a four-game point streak (5g, 5a) and Mitch Woods (RW) developed a three-game point streak dishing four helpers. Goaltender Nick Boucher is unbeaten in regulation in 14 straight games he has started (13-0-1-0).

The Komets have won four straight games and are unbeaten in regulation six straight. The Komets have a 16-game home winning streak and five-game road unbeaten streak (4-0-1-0). Fort Wayne's record for consecutive home wins is 18 set in 1963-64.