Fort Wayne, IN
— The Komets will host the Port Huron Icehawks Wednesday in the
first of seven Wild Wednesday Komet home games this season.
It's the debut of special Wednesday nights presented by the Fort
Wayne Children's Zoo where fans can visit the Zoo's booth in the
Coliseum lobby to see live animals from the zoo and register for
chances to win zoo related prizes.
The Komets will face the Hawks on the ice at 7:30pm in the
second of six Fort Wayne meetings. It will be the third of
11 meetings this season overall with the series currently tied
1-1. The Komets turned back the Icehawks in the last
meeting 4-2 Nov. 28 in Fort Wayne. Port Huron and the
Komets have identical records going into the week at 12-6-0-1
for 25 points and trail first-place Muskegon by five points.
The Hawks are coming off a 7-4 win at Dayton Sunday night after
suffering a 3-0 shutout loss at Muskegon Friday. Port
Huron is 4-2-0-1 in their last seven games while Fort Wayne is
5-2-0-1 in their last eight. The Icehawks are led by right
winger Mike Kinnie with 13 goals and 18 points. However
Kinnie has not been in the Port Huron lineup their last three
games (1-2-0).
The Komets will complete week nine with a visit to Port Huron
Saturday for a 7:30pm faceoff. The Icehawks will host
Muskegon Friday before facing the Komets Saturday.
About last week
The Komets started the week with a 3-2 home shootout loss to the
Quad City Mallards Friday. It was the first shootout loss
for Fort Wayne this season. The Komets are 4-1 in games
needing extra time this year. Saturday the Komets were
shut out 3-0 at Dayton for the first shut out against the Komets
on the road in four years. The last time was Dec. 30, 2005
at Kalamazoo 4-0. Sunday the Komets salvaged three points
out of the weekend with a 3-2 overtime win over the visiting
Flint Generals.
Shooting Komets.....the Komets out-shot their opponents
in each of the three games played for the week and have out-shot
opponnents in seven straight games and in 15 of 19 this season.
Fort Wayne leads the IHL with an average of 32.6 shots per game
while ranking second allowing 28.6 shots per game. The
stingy Komet defense has also surrendered only 47 goals in 19
games for an IHL best 2.47 goals-against average per game.
Haun's streak.....goaltender Tim Haun has started 13
straight games. The last time a Fort Wayne goalie started
more consecutive games was Keven Reiter with 16 straight games
in 2007-08. Haun leads IHL netminders with 15 games played
and 914 total minutes.
Chwedoruk's streak.....Justin Chwedoruk (RW) had his
goal-scoring streak snapped at an IHL season-high six games (6
goals) Saturday, Dec. 5 at Dayton.
Closing in on 900......defenseman Guy Dupuis, who sets a
new Komet record for games played with each appearance, is
expected to skate his 900th Fort Wayne game (regular season and
playoffs) Wednesday when the Komets host Port Huron.
Dupuis is also 16 points from tying the Komet record of regular
season points by a defenseman set by Lionel Repka at 492.
Great 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
Wednesday, Dec. 9........Port Huron Icehawks at Komets,
7:30pm, WOWO Radio AM
1190
Saturday, Dec. 12..........Komets at Port Huron Icehawks, 7:30pm,
WOWO Radio AM 1190
All games broadcast on radio are webcast free at
www.Komets.com Comcast
KometCast.
Komet practice schedule
Tuesday, Dec. 8............10am-noon at the Coliseum
Wednesday, Dec. 9.......10am-11am at
the Coliseum
Thursday, Dec. 10.........10am-11:30am at McMillen Ice Arena
Friday, Dec. 11..............10am-11:30am
at McMillen Ice Arena
Monday, Dec. 14...........10am-11:30am
at McMillen Ice Arena
Tuesday, Dec. 15..........10am-11:30am
at McMillen Ice Arena
Wednesday, Dec. 16.....10am-noon
at the Coliseum
IHL
STANDINGS thru games of 12/6/2009
TEAM
GP W L OTL
SOL PTS WPCT GF
GA PIM HOME
ROAD L-TEN
STREAK
Muskegon
20 14 4
0 2 30
.750 74 51 504
11-2-0-0 3-2-0-2 8-1-0-1
2-0-0-0
Port Huron
19 12 6
0 1 25
.658 59 52 397
7-2-0-0 5-4-0-1 6-3-0-1
1-0-0-0
Fort Wayne
19 12 6
0 1 25
.658 53 47 428
7-1-0-1 5-5-0-0 5-4-0-1
1-0-0-0
Dayton
22 10 9
3 0 23
.523 59 64 341
5-5-1-0 5-4-2-0 5-4-1-0
0-1-0-0
Bloomington 19
9 7 1
2 21 .553 62
63 584 6-2-1-0
3-5-0-2 3-5-1-1 0-3-1-0
Flint
21 6 12
1 2 15
.357 52 66 441
4-4-0-2 2-8-1-0 3-6-1-0
0-0-1-0
Quad City
16 5 8
2 1 13
.406 39 55 289
3-2-1-1 2-6-1-0 4-4-1-1
0-1-0-0
TOTALS
136 68 52 7
9 152 .559 398
398 2984 -
- -
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FORT
WAYNE KOMETS TEAMSTATS thru games of 12/6/2009
#
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 19 4 14 18 -1
18 2 7 0
0 2 0 1
0 0 1
3 .333 55
.073
91 Chaulk, Colin
C 18 1 15 16
+1 47 0 5
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 41
.024
2 Dupuis, Guy
D 19 3 11 14
+2 37 2 4
0 0 1 0
0 1 0 0
0 .000 52
.058
44 Thomas, Leo
C 19 7 6 13
-1 18 4 4
0 0 3 1
2 0 0 0
2 .000 47
.149
29 OConnor, Sean
RW 15 5 6 11
+1 14 1 1
2 0 2 0
0 1 0 0
1 .000 53
.094
96 Chwedoruk, Justin F
9 6 1 7 -3
4 3 0 0
0 0 1 0
0 1 0
2 .000 29
.207
27 Syroczynski, Matt LW
4 4 2 6 +4
0 1 1 0
0 1 0 0
0 0 0
0 .000 17
.235
14 DeAngelis, Frankie D
16 2 4 6 +1
0 2 4 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0
0 .000 32
.063
24 Shafranov, Konstan LW 9
2 4 6 +2
4 0 2 0
0 0 1 0
0 0 1
1 1.000 15 .133
8 Klempa, Tomas
RW 17 3 2 5
-1 2 0 2
0 0 0 2
0 0 0 0
0 .000 55
.055
7 Varone, Rick
C 14 1 4 5
-2 12 1 3
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 32
.031
72 Woodard, Matt
D 19 3 1 4
-5 19 2 1
0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0
0 .000 31
.097
79 Schrock, Kaliegh RW
19 3 1 4 -1
49 0 0 0
1 1 1 0
1 0 0
0 .000 41
.073
19 Rodger, Keith
D 18 2 2 4
0 30 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 16
.125
9 Warner, Brandon
D 12 1 2 3
+1 4 0 0
0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0
0 .000 14
.071
21 Hukalo, David
RW 10 1 1 2
-3 22 1 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
1 .000 17
.059
20 Phillips, Bobby D
19 0 2 2 +7
11 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0
0 .000 19
.000
35 Haun, Tim
G 15 0 2 2
0 2 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 0
.000
51 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
15 MacMillan, Brad RW
6 1 0 1 +2
57 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
1 0 0
0 .000 6
.167
3 Mironovic, Danko D
17 0 1 1 -2
25 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0
0 .000 11
.000
22 Bertram, Kevin
D 10 0 1 1
+5 11 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 .000 7
.000
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 4 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
GP G A PTS +/- PIM
PPG PPA SHG SHA GWG FG OTG
UAG ENG SHOG SHOA SHO% SHOTS
SPCT
TOTALS
19 53 83 136 +5 428 20
34 2 1 12
9 5 6 1
2 10 .200
620 .085
# GOALIE
GP MIN W L OTL
SOL SO GA GAA SHOW SHO
SHOGA SHOAA SAVES SPCT
35 Haun, Tim
15 914:40 9 5 0
1 0 36 2.36 2
3 1 11
370 .911
33 Boucher, Nick
4 240:39 3 1 0
0 0 10 2.49 0
0 0 0
127 .927
TOTALS
19 12
6 0 1 0 47
2.47 2 3 1
11 497 .914
