Fort Wayne, IN
— The Komets successfully launched the home portion of 2009-10
with their sixth straight home-opener win 2-1 over Bloomington
Friday night. A sell-out crowd of 10,511 was on hand
becoming the eighth straight 10,000-plus crowd to attend a Fort
Wayne Komet home opener. The Komets are unbeaten in
regulation in 15 straight home openers for a 13-0-2 record since
September 30, 1995 when the Komets started the unbeaten string
with a 7-3 win over Houston in front of a then sell-out crowd of
8,103.
Rookies Tomas Klempa (RW) and Kaleigh Schrock (RW) each scored
their first pro goals to give the Komets the win Friday.
Saturday the Komets upended the Mallards in Quad City 3-1 as
rookie Travis Whitehead (C) scored his first pro goal and Matt
Syroczynski (LW) netted a pair. Saturday's game was the
first Komet visit to Quad City since March 2, 2007 when the
Komets clipped the Mallards 2-1.
Nick Boucher backstopped the Komets to the 2-1 win Friday night
stopping 35 of 25 Thunder shots and improves to 2-1-0-0 on the
season. Goalie Tim Haun appeared in his first game of the
season at Quad City Saturday taking the win on 28 saves.
The two wins and four points for the second week of the season moves the Komets into a first-place
tie with Port Huron going into week three of 2009-10.
This week the Komets will skate at Bloomington Friday before the
Muskegon Lumberjacks make their first of six trips to Fort Wayne
Saturday for Halloween night at 7:30.
Welcome back....right winger Sean O'Connor has
been re-signed by the Komets. O'Connor started the season
appearing in three games with the ECHL's Kalamazoo Wings (1g,
1a) prior to being added to the Komet roster. O'Connor was
a member of last year's Turner Cup Champion Komets in his rookie
season scoring 23 goals and 47 points in 59 games and added two
goals, nine assists and 11 points in the post-season run for the
cup. O'Connor was a co-winner of the Komets' Rookie of the
Year Award last season with Rick Varone.
Fort Wayne dubbed "Title Town".....the Fort
Wayne/Allen County Convention and Visitors Bureau proudly
declared Fort Wayne "Title Town" just in time for the Komets'
58th home opener Friday. The proclamation was made in the
spirit of the Komets' back-to-back Turner Cup championships, the
Fort Wayne TinCaps Midwest League baseball championship and Fort
Wayne's "All-America City" award. Komet fans can watch for
Title Town billboards courtesy of Burkhart Advertising at
several locations around Fort Wayne as part of the celebration.
Got magnetic schedules.....5,000 Komet magnetic
schedules will be given away to fans entering the building
Saturday. The popular annual giveaway is made possible by
Fort Wayne area Applebees restaurants.
Got Komet tickets.......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.
Radio rink-side......follow the Komets radio-rinkside
with Bob Chase, in his 57th
consecutive season calling Komet action on WOWO Radio AM 1190.
The Komet
broadcast can also be
heard worldwide at
www.komets.com at
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
Friday, Oct. 30............Komets at Bloomington PrairieThunder,
8:05pm (FW time), WOWO AM 1190
Saturday, Oct. 31........Muskegon Lumberjacks at Komets, 7:30pm, WOWO AM 1190
All games broadcast on radio are webcast free at
www.Komets.com Comcast
KometCast.
Komet practice schedule
Tuesday, Oct. 27........10am-noon at the Coliseum
Wednesday, Oct. 28...10am-noon at the Coliseum
Thursday, Oct. 29.......10am-noon at the Coliseum
Friday, Oct. 30...........10am-11am at McMillien Ice Arena
Saturday, Oct. 31.......11am-noon at the Coliseum
Monday, Nov. 2..........10am-noon at the Coliseum
IHL 2009-10
STANDINGS thru games of 10/25/09
TEAM
GP W L OTL
SOL PTS WPCT GF
GA PIM HOME
ROAD L-TEN
STREAK
Fort Wayne
4 3 1
0 0 6
.750 13 10 127
1-0-0-0 2-1-0-0 3-1-0-0
2-0-0-0
Port Huron
4 3 1
0 0 6
.750 14 11 131
2-0-0-0 1-1-0-0 3-1-0-0
0-1-0-0
Dayton
5 2 2
1 0 5
.500 17 21 78
1-1-1-0 1-1-0-0 2-2-1-0
1-0-0-0
Muskegon
4 2 2
0 0 4
.500 19 14 140
2-1-0-0 0-1-0-0 2-2-0-0
1-0-0-0
Bloomington 4
2 2 0
0 4 .500 12
13 116 1-0-0-0 1-2-0-0
2-2-0-0 1-0-0-0
Quad City
2 1 1
0 0 2
.500 4 4 23
0-1-0-0 1-0-0-0 1-1-0-0
0-1-0-0
Flint
5 1 4
0 0 2
.200 11 17 175
1-2-0-0 0-2-0-0 1-4-0-0
0-4-0-0
TOTALS
28 14 13 1
0 29 .518 90
90 790 -
- -
-
FORT
WAYNE KOMETS TEAMSTATS thru games of 10/24/09
#
PLAYER
POS GP G A PTS +/-
PIM PPG PPA SHG SHA GWG FG
OTG UAG ENG SHOG SHOA SHO%
SHOTS SPCT
27 Syroczynski, Matt LW
4 4 2 6 +4
0 1 1 0
0 1 0 0
0 0 0
0 .000 17 .235
71 Drouin, P.C.
LW 4 0 5 5
+3 8 0 2
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 13 .000
24 Shafranov, Konstan LW 4
1 3 4 +4
0 0 1 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0
0 .000 7
.143
91 Chaulk, Colin
C 4 1 2 3
+2 8 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 10 .100
2 Dupuis, Guy
D 4 0 3 3
+4 6 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 17 .000
44 Thomas, Leo
C 4 1 1 2
0 6 0 0
0 0 1 0
1 0 0 0
0 .000 9
.111
19 Rodger, Keith
D 3 1 1 2
+3 24 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 3
.333
15 MacMillan, Brad RW
4 1 0 1 +2
31 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
1 0 0
0 .000 5
.200
72 Woodard, Matt
D 4 1 0 1
+1 0 1 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 7
.143
79 Schrock, Kaliegh RW
4 1 0 1 +2
5 0 0 0
0 1 0 0
1 0 0
0 .000 6
.167
13 Whitehead, Travis C
3 1 0 1 +1
4 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0
0 .000 1
1.000
8 Klempa, Tomas
RW 2 1 0 1
+1 0 0 0
0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0
0 .000 7
.143
3 Mironovic, Danko D
4 0 1 1 +1
11 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0
0 .000 2
.000
10 Saidachev, Evgeny RW
4 0 1 1 -1
2 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0
0 .000 5
.000
20 Phillips, Bobby D
4 0 1 1 +5
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0
0 .000 4
.000
7 Varone, Rick
C 4 0 0 0
+1 6 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 9
.000
51 Stayzer, Blair
D 4 0 0 0
0 14 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 3
.000
33 Boucher, Nick
G 3 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
14 DeAngelis, Frankie D
1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 2
.000
22 Bertram, Kevin
D 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 0
.000
35 Haun, Tim
G 1 0 0 0
0 2 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
4 13 20 33 +33 127
2 4 0 0
3 1 1 2
0 0 0
.000 127 .102
# GOALIE
GP MIN W L OTL
SOL SO GA GAA SHOW SHO
SHOGA SHOAA SAVES SPCT
33 Boucher, Nick
3 180:39 2 1 0 0
0 9 2.99 0
0 0 0
101 .918
35 Haun, Tim
1 60:00 1 0 0
0 0 1 1.00 0
0 0 0
28 .966
TOTALS
4 3
1 0 0 0 10
2.50 0 0 0
0 129 .928
