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Komets 14-9-1-0 at Christmas break
PrairieThunder visit Friday, Wings return Monday
FORT WAYNE KOMETS PRESS RELEASE
Posted Monday, December 22, 2008
Fort Wayne Komet Hockey Club | 1010 Memorial Way, Fort
Wayne, IN 46805 | 260.483.0011
Fort Wayne, IN — The Komets
split a home double-header weekend to finish week ten of
2008-09 at 14-9-1-0 for 29 points and third place in the IHL,
three points behind leaders Kalamazoo and Port Huron, each tied
for the top spot with 32 points at the Christmas break.
In review of last week, the Komets had to postpone their
scheduled game at Muskegon Friday due to icy road conditions.
The make-up date of that game is yet to be determined.
Saturday the Komets started a weekend home double-header with a
6-4 win over Muskegon. Sunday the Komets were clipped by
the visiting Kalamazoo Wings 2-1. 13,353 fans turned out
for Komet hockey in Fort Wayne Saturday and Sunday, braving icy
conditions, sub-zero wind chills and power outages thought the
Fort Wayne area.
This week the Komets are idle for the Christmas holiday until
Friday when they host the Bloomington PrairieThunder to start a
busy final week of 2008 skating four games in six nights.
The last place Thunder are coming off a 6-3 loss at Kalamazoo
Saturday to extend their losing streak to three games.
Bloomington 1-7-0 in their last eight outings. Friday's
game will be the fifth of 14 meetings this season. The
Komets lead the series 3-1-0.
The Komets travel to Port Huron
Saturday for a 7:30pm faceoff. The Icehawks turned back the visiting
Komets 4-1 in the last meeting Dec. 13. The Komets lead the season series
3-2-0 and are unbeaten on Port Huron ice so far this season 3-0-0.
Monday, Dec. 29, the Komets
will host the Kalamazoo Wings at 7:30pm in a special holiday Monday game.
The game will feature a free family skate after the game courtesy of Wendy's.
The Komets will host Flint Wednesday, Dec. 31 for the traditional Fort Wayne New
Year's Eve game at 7:30pm.
After New Year's Eve, the Komets will continue a stretch of seven games in 10
nights when they begin the 2009 portion of the schedule at Port Huron Friday,
Jan. 2. Saturday, Jan. 3 the Komets skate at Kalamazoo and Sunday, Jan. 4
the Komets play at Flint.
Streaking Komets:
Left wing P.C. Drouin had points in each game to extend his league-leading point
streak to 11 games (5 goals, 12 assists) and is riding a season-high assist
streak of eight games (9 assists). Defenseman Brandon Warner is riding a
four-game point streak (3 goals, 2 assists) after registering points in each
game of the week.
Special K's.....the Komets' continue to rank #1 in the IHL
on the penalty kill with an 86.9% efficiency rating after
allowing only one power play goal in 13 kills.
The Komets scored five power play goals on 12 chances in the two
games played to continue to lead the IHL on the power play with
a 22.4% rating.
Tickets.....Komet tickets 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 visit the Komet office, or the Komets'
website at
www.komets.com,
or call 260-483-0011.
KOMETS PLANNER
Komet games coming up
Friday, Dec. 26.....Bloomington PrairieThunder at Komets, 8pm, WOWO AM 1190
Saturday, Dec. 27.....Komets at Port Huron Icehawks,
7:30pm, WOWO AM 1190
Monday, Dec. 29.....Kalamazoo Wings at Komets, 7:30pm, ESPN
Radio AM 1380
Wednesday, Dec. 31.....Flint Generals at Komets, 7:30pm, ESPN Radio AM 1380
All games broadcast on radio are webcast free at
www.Komets.com Comcast KometCast
Komet practice schedule
Tue, Dec 23.....10am-11am at McMillen Ice Arena (optional)
Fri, Dec. 26....10am-11am at
the Coliseum
Sat, Dec. 27.....10am-11am at McMillen Ice Arena
Sun, Dec. 28....11am-noon at the Coliseum
Mon, Dec. 29.....10am-11am at
the Coliseum
Tue, Dec. 30.....11am-noon at the
Coliseum
Wed. Dec. 31.....10am-11am at
McMillen Ice Arena
Komets Schedule
 Komet Hockey On The Web and Air.....most
Komet
games are broadcast on WOWO Radio AM 1190 with Bob
Chase at the Fort Wayne microphone for his 56th consecutive
season. Some games will be aired on WKJG/ESPN Radio AM
1380 as an alternative when conflicts occur. All games
aired on radio will also be available free on the internet at
Comcast KometCast at
www.komets.com. Fans
can follow the official scoring of all Komet games this season
by clicking on the "Scoreboard" at
www.komets.com.
Komets.com.....the official website of the Fort
Wayne Komets is
www.komets.com.
In addition to featuring free webcasting of live Komet game
radio, Komets.com also provides fans and media with up-to-date
team stats, news, interactive fan features and information.
Fans can also follow all Komet games with real-time scoring via
the
IHL and Pointstreak by clicking the
Scoreboard at Komets.com.
IHL STANDINGS thru games of 12/21/08
TEAM GP W L OTL SOL PTS WPCT GF GA PIM HOME ROAD L-TEN STREAK
Kalamazoo 25 16 9 0 0 32 .640 100 75 495 8-2-0-0 8-7-0-0 7-3-0-0 4-0-0-0
Port Huron 28 16 12 0 0 32 .571 100 84 504 6-7-0-0 10-5-0-0 7-3-0-0 0-1-0-0
Fort Wayne 24 14 9 1 0 29 .604 90 71 609 6-5-1-0 8-4-0-0 6-4-0-0 0-1-0-0
Muskegon 22 13 8 1 0 27 .614 97 90 549 8-4-0-0 5-4-1-0 5-5-0-0 1-0-0-0
Flint 29 9 17 1 2 21 .362 97 132 675 6-8-1-1 3-9-0-1 4-5-0-1 0-2-0-0
Bloomington 24 8 16 0 0 16 .333 73 105 573 6-7-0-0 2-9-0-0 3-7-0-0 0-3-0-0
TOTALS 152 76 71 3 2 157 .516 557 557 3405 - - - -
FORT WAYNE KOMETS TEAMSTATS thru games of 12/21/08
# PLAYER POS GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG PPA SHG SHA GWG FG OTG UAG ENG SHOG SHOA SHO% SHOTS SPCT
71 Drouin, P.C. LW 24 16 21 37 +12 30 3 10 2 1 2 3 0 0 1 0 0 .000 76 .211
91 Chaulk, Colin C 21 5 29 34 +5 34 2 16 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 48 .104
2 Dupuis, Guy D 24 5 20 25 +5 34 3 11 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 87 .057
94 Curadeau, Mathieu C 14 13 7 20 +2 16 5 3 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 .000 62 .210
7 Varone, Rick C 24 8 12 20 +5 48 1 4 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 .000 56 .143
21 Hukalo, David RW 22 6 14 20 +9 25 4 6 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 57 .105
44 Thomas, Leo C 8 7 5 12 +4 11 5 1 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 .000 30 .233
(TOTALS) 17 11 7 18 -3 52 7 1 0 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 .000 55 .200
24 Shafranov, Konstan LW 15 6 9 15 +4 10 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 39 .154
19 Osman, Dominic RW 13 11 2 13 -2 6 5 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 65 .169
9 Warner, Brandon D 15 5 5 10 +1 16 2 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 28 .179
29 OConnor, Sean RW 14 3 3 6 +1 10 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 30 .100
28 Holladay, Jay D 23 1 5 6 -2 4 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 38 .026
22 Bertram, Kevin D 23 1 4 5 +8 66 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 18 .056
3 Mironovic, Danko D 24 0 4 4 +1 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 19 .000
82 Legault, Olivier LW 16 3 0 3 +2 45 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 12 .250
74 Gravelle, Maxime C 22 0 3 3 -2 42 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 20 .000
15 MacMillan, Brad RW 20 0 2 2 -4 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 26 .000
X Beckett, Jason D 8 0 2 2 +7 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 21 .000
4 Boulay, Brian D 24 0 1 1 -1 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 19 .000
X Field, Mike F 7 0 1 1 -4 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 .000
14 Pence, Jake D 3 0 1 1 -2 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 .000
33 Boucher, Nick G 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000
47 Lewis, Adam C 10 0 0 0 -5 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 20 .000
60 Laplante, Sebastie G 6 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000
35 Haun, Tim G 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000
X Potts, Ryan F 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000
GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG PPA SHG SHA GWG FG OTG UAG ENG SHOG SHOA SHO% SHOTS SPCT
TOTALS 24 90 150 240 +41 609 32 61 4 5 14 15 0 5 1 0 0 .000 774 .116
# GOALIE GP MIN W L OTL SOL SO GA GAA SHOW SHO SHOGA SHOAA SAVES SPCT
33 Boucher, Nick 16 929:56 8 6 1 0 0 46 2.97 0 0 0 0 392 .895
60 Laplante, Sebastie 6 326:16 4 2 0 0 0 18 3.31 0 0 0 0 157 .897
35 Haun, Tim 3 178:44 2 1 0 0 1 7 2.35 0 0 0 0 77 .917
TOTALS 24 14 10 1 0 1 71 2.96 0 0 0 0 626 .898
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