Fort Wayne, IN — The Komets have a busy week at home this week.  Three games are slated in four nights at the Memorial Coliseum starting with a visit from the Bloomington PrairieThunder Wednesday at 7:30pm.  It's the 12th and final meeting of the season between the Komets and Thunder with Fort Wayne leading the series 8-2-1-0.  The Komets have not lost in regulation at home to the Thunder this season in five previous meetings (4-0-1-0).  Bloomington holds the fourth and final playoff spot in the IHL leading fifth-place Quad City by three points with three games in hand and are riding a three-game losing streak.

Friday the IHL-leading Muskegon Lumberjacks (40-15-0-3, 83 points) make their first appearance in Fort Wayne (35-18-1-2, 73 points) since Jan. 9 when the Komets doubled-up the Jacks 4-2.  It's the eighth of 11 meetings this season and the fourth of six in Fort Wayne.  Counting Friday's match the Komets have four of their final 20 games of the season against Muskegon.  The Komets trail Muskegon by 10 points with two games in hand going into week 22.  The Lumberjacks are coming off two straight losses at Port Huron over the weekend and are 2-3-0-0 in their last five games.  Muskegon will host Quad City Wednesday before their 8pm faceoff in Fort Wayne Friday.

Saturday the Komets complete the week by welcoming the second-place Port Huron Icehawks (36-18-0-4, 76 points) at 7:30pm.  Fort Wayne trails Port Huron by three points with two games in hand.  Saturday's game will be the ninth of 11 meetings this season with the Komets trailing the series 3-5-0-0.  The Icehawks are undefeated in their last four outings (3-0-0-1) and have won thier last three straight.  In the race for the Huber Trophy the Hawks trail first-place Muskegon by seven points with 18 games remaining.  Port Huron will host Bloomington Friday before traveling to Fort Wayne Saturday.

About last week
The Komets skated four games in five nights last week, splitting the games played for a four-point week.  Week 21 started with a 4-2 home win against Dayton Wednesday.  Friday the Komets stopped the PrairieThunder in Bloomington 4-1 to extend their win streak to a season-high six games.  The Fort Wayne winning streak was snapped with a 3-1 loss at Flint Saturday before the Komets dropped a 3-2 decision Sunday to the visiting Generals in the back-end of a home-and-home series. 
Drouin reaches 500.....P.C. Drouin (LW) dished his 500th career assist in Fort Wayne's 4-1 win at Bloomington Friday, assisting on Guy Dupuis' game winning goal.
Shooting Komets.....the Komets directed an IHL season-high 56 shots on Flint goalie Sergei Zvyagin during Sunday's 3-2 loss in Fort Wayne.  Sean O'Connor (RW) had an IHL season-high 12 shots.  The Fort Wayne team record for shots on goal in a game is 80, set against Dayton March 27, 1965 in a 12-1 win.  The Komets currently lead the IHL with 1,963 shots in 56 games for a per-game average of 35.05 shots.  In addition, the Komets also have the stingiest defense allowing an IHL lowest average of 29.5 shots per game.
Special K's.....the Komets scored on 25% of their power play chances (4/16) and were successful on all but one penalty kill (14/15, 93.3%) in the four games played to lead the IHL with an 87.2% penalty kill efficiency rate overall. 

Season Ticket Exchange Night Wednesday.....Hey season ticket holders!  Hang on to those unused tickets.  The Komets feature several Season Ticket Exchange Nights throughout the season and this Wednesday is another one.  Any unused ticket from a previously scheduled Komet home game can be exchanged at the Coliseum Ticket Office for a ticket to this Wednesday's Komet game against the Bloomington PrairieThunder at 7:30pm.

Friday night Marathon Nights.....Friday nights are Marathon Nights at Komet home games.  Fans can take advantage of a buy-one-get-one-free ticket offer with two fill-ups when the Komets host the Muskegon Lumberjacks this Friday, March 12 at 8pm.  Fill Up Cards are available at participating Marathon stations.

Hottest Ticket In Town.....still plenty of great seats available for all upcoming Komet home games.  Tickets are on sale at the Coliseum Ticket Office and online at www.ticketmaster.com.  Single game ticket prices for 2009-10 remain the same as last season, ranging from $8.00 to $20.00 for seniors and adults and starting at $6.00 for children.  The Komets offer discounts on group tickets sold at the Komet office at 1010 Memorial Way.  For more information visit the Komet office, call 260-483-0011 or visit the Komets' website at www.komets.com. 

Komet Hockey with Bob Chase......follow the Komets worldwide at www.komets.com Comcast KometCast with Bob Chase, in his 57th consecutive season calling Komet action.  The Komet Hockey broadcast can also be heard on Fort Wayne radio outlets WOWO AM 1190 or ESPN AM 1380 depending on availability.  All games broadcast can be heard at www.komets.com Comcast KometCast.

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. 

KOMETS PLANNER
Komet games this week
Wednesday, March 10......Bloomington PrairieThunder at Komets, 7:30pm, ESPN/WKJG Radio AM 1380
Friday, March 12..............Muskegon Lumberjacks at Komets, 8pm, WOWO Radio AM 1190
Saturday, March 13..........Port Huron Icehawks at Komets, 7:30pm, WOWO Radio AM 1190
All games broadcast on radio are webcast free at www.Komets.com Comcast KometCast.
Komet practice schedule
Note:  All Komet practices originally scheduled for McMillen Ice Arena have switched to the new Canlan Ice Sports arena, 3869 Ice Way in Fort Wayne.
Tuesday, March 9...........10am-noon at the Coliseum
Wednesday, March 10....10am-11am at the Coliseum
Thursday, March 11........10:30am-noon at Canlan Ice Sports
Friday, March 12............10am-11am at the Coliseum
Saturday, March 13........10am-11am at the Coliseum
Monday, March 15..........10am-11:30am at Canlan Ice Sports
Tuesday, March 16.........10am-11:30am at Canlan Ice Sports
Wednesday, March 17....10am-11am at Canlan Ice Sports

IHL STANDINGS  thru games of 3/7/2010
TEAM                GP    W     L     OTL   SOL   PTS   WPCT   GF     GA     PIM    HOME        ROAD        L-TEN     STREAK   
Muskegon            58    40    15      0     3   83    .716   221    169    1258   25-6-0-0    15-9-0-3    5-5-0-0   0-2-0-0  
Port Huron          58    36    18      0     4   76    .655   196    166    1053   20-8-0-0    16-10-0-4   7-2-0-1   3-0-0-0  
Fort Wayne          56    35    18      1     2   73    .652   180    136    1190   18-6-1-1    17-12-0-1   6-3-1-0   0-2-0-0  
Bloomington         56    25    24      2     5   57    .509   181    196    1483   17-11-2-0   8-13-0-5    5-5-0-0   0-3-0-0  
Quad City           59    22    27      4     6   54    .458   162    207    847    17-9-1-3    5-18-3-3    5-4-0-1   1-0-0-0  
Flint               58    22    30      2     4   50    .431   162    198    1205   14-9-1-4    8-21-1-0    5-5-0-0   2-0-0-0  
Dayton              59    22    33      3     1   48    .407   163    193    842    13-14-1-1   9-19-2-0    3-7-0-0   1-0-0-0  
TOTALS              404   202   165    12    25   441   .546   1265   1265   7878   -           -           -         -        

FORT WAYNE KOMETS TEAMSTATS  thru games of 3/7/2010
#     PLAYER              POS  GP  G     A   PTS  +/-   PIM   PPG  PPA  SHG  SHA  GWG  FG  OTG  UAG  ENG  SHOG  SHOA  SHO%   SHOTS  SPCT 
91    Chaulk, Colin       C    51  17   44   61   +21    90    5   17    0    1    5   6     0   0   2    1      1    1.000  125    .136 
71    Drouin, P.C.        LW   56  19   40   59    +7    48    9   17    0    3    4   1     1   1   0    1      3    .333   157    .121 
44    Thomas, Leo         C    55  24   20   44   +12    46    6    6    4    0    4   5     2   1   0    0      3    .000   135    .178 
24    Shafranov, Konstan  LW   41  14   27   41   +17    12    4   10    0    0    2   3     0   0   0    2      3    .667   72     .194 
29    OConnor, Sean       RW   52  13   21   34    +5    33    4    4    3    1    3   0     0   3   0    0      1    .000   172    .076 
27    Syroczynski, Matt   LW   28  18   14   32   +12    18    5    4    0    0    3   2     0   0   1    0      0    .000   142    .127 
2     Dupuis, Guy         D    56  8    24   32   +15    73    5   13    0    0    2   0     0   1   0    1      1    1.000  171    .047 
14    DeAngelis, Frankie  D    53  9    19   28   +18    6     2    7    2    0    3   1     0   0   0    0      0    .000   108    .083 
96    Chwedoruk, Justin   F    46  9    15   24    -2    27    4    4    1    1    0   2     0   0   1    0      2    .000   121    .074 
79    Schrock, Kaleigh    RW   56  15    8   23    0    136    0    0    1    2    3   2     0   1   2    0      1    .000   144    .104 
9     Warner, Brandon     D    46  1    14   15    +5    18    0    3    0    0    0   1     0   0   0    0      0    .000   69     .014 
21    Hukalo, David       RW   22  7     6   13    0     30    4    3    0    0    2   2     1   0   0    0      1    .000   58     .121 
22    Bertram, Kevin      D    47  2    10   12   +18    74    0    0    0    0    0   1     0   0   0    0      0    .000   48     .042 
20    Phillips, Bobby     D    47  2     8   10   +10    44    0    0    0    1    0   0     0   0   0    0      0    .000   57     .035 
15    MacMillan, Brad     RW   39  7     2   9     +4   209    0    0    0    0    1   1     0   1   1    0      0    .000   61     .115 
72    Woodard, Matt       D    49  4     4   8     -5    33    2    2    0    0    0   1     0   0   0    0      0    .000   64     .063 
19    Rodger, Keith       D    50  2     6   8     +3    95    0    0    0    0    0   0     0   0   0    0      0    .000   47     .043 
    X Varone, Rick        C    23  1     5   6     -4    14    1    3    0    0    0   0     0   0   0    0      0    .000   47     .021 
3     Mironovic, Danko    D    52  0     6   6     +7    67    0    1    0    1    0   0     0   0   0    0      0    .000   49     .000 
    X Klempa, Tomas       RW   24  3     2   5     -6    2     0    2    0    0    0   2     0   0   0    0      0    .000   69     .043 
35    Haun, Tim           G    34  0     3   3     0     14    0    0    0    0    0   0     0   0   0    0      0    .000   0      .000 
17    Woods, Mitch        RW   18  0     2   2     -1    49    0    1    0    0    0   0     0   0   0    0      0    .000   16     .000 
    X Stayzer, Blair      D    13  1     0   1     0     34    1    0    0    0    0   1     0   0   0    0      0    .000   16     .063 
    X Whitehead, Travis   C    7   1     0   1     0     4     0    0    0    0    0   0     0   0   0    0      0    .000   6      .167 
    X Saidachev, Evgeny   RW   7   0     1   1     -2    2     0    0    0    0    0   0     0   0   0    0      0    .000   6      .000 
33    Boucher, Nick       G    25  0     0   0     0     0     0    0    0    0    0   0     0   0   0    0      0    .000   0      .000 
    X Laise, Vince        F    2   0     0   0     0     0     0    0    0    0    0   0     0   0   0    0      0    .000   0      .000 
    X Duffus, Parris      G    1   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                   56  180  301  481  +134  1190  52   97   11   10   35   31    7  11   7    5      16   .313   1963   .092 
#       GOALIE              GP  MIN      W   L   OTL  SOL  SO  GA   GAA   SHOW  SHO  SHOGA  SHOAA  SAVES  SPCT 
35      Haun, Tim           34  2001:59  21  10  0    2    2   73   2.19  3     5    5      18     868    .922 
33      Boucher, Nick       25  1382:01  14  8   1    0    1   58   2.52  0     0    0      0      648    .918 
    X   Duffus, Parris      1   0:31     0   0   0    0    0   0    .00   0     0    0      0      0      .000 
        TOTALS              56           35  19  1    2    3   136  2.43  3     5    5      18     1516   .918