Fort Wayne Komets Press Release




FORT WAYNE KOMETS PRESS RELEASE Fort Wayne Komet Hockey Club 1010 Memorial Way, Fort Wayne, IN 46805 \| 260.483.0011 Contact: Chuck Bailey, Director of Communications 260.482.6550 \| chuck@komets.com

Komets Southern Sweep Nets Six Points 7-0 for January on the road Wichita Thunder visits Friday and Saturday *Fort Wayne, IN \| Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 --* The Komets completed the month of January sweeping all three road games of a southern tour last week rustling up six points and improving to 16-18-5 after 39 games of 2010-11, but most importantly finishing their first winning month of the season posting an 8-3-2 record for January. The Komets gained 18 of 26 points for a monthly pace of .692. More about January -- The Komets won all seven road games during January to pull even on the road at .500 going into February (9-9-2). The Komets extended their streak of winning January records to 14 straight years. The Komets have not had a losing record for January since 1997-98. Left wing Tab Lardner led the Fort Wayne charge with points in eight of 13 games scoring 10 goals, including four game-winners and 14 points while right winger Derek Patrosso also had points in eight of 13 games to lead with 13 assists, 14 points and a plus-10. January also saw the return of center Colin Chaulk to the Fort Wayne roster. Chaulk skated 12 games during the month posting 10 assists and ranked second in the lineup with 13 points while earning a plus-nine. Chaulk had points in eight of the 12 games played and registered four multiple-point games while the Komets were 7-3-2 during that span. Kevin Reiter had the hot hand between the pipes registering a 4-2-0 record in seven appearances and posting a 2.10 goals-against average making 145 saves for a .924 save percentage. MORE ABOUT LAST WEEK The Komets extended their road win string to seven games and have been unbeaten in regulation on the road in eight straight (7-0-1). Fort Wayne's player of the week was Patrosso with a goal, five assists and plus-6. Patrosso assisted on two of the three game winners and pushed his point and assist-scoring streak to a current CHL high seven games (1 goal, 12 assists). Kevin Reiter appeared in two of the three games (2-0-0), stopped 52 of 56 shots for a 2.00 goals-against average and .929 save percentage. Friday, Jan. 28, Fort Wayne Komets 5 at Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs 3 First ever meeting between the Komets and Mudbugs. The Komets were held to only 15 shots on goal for the fewest shots in a game this season. Colin Chaulk registered his first three-point game of the season (1g, 2a) Saturday, Jan. 29, Fort Wayne Komets 2 at Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs 1 The Komets sweep the double-header visit at Bossier-Shreveport. Kevin Reiter earned his second straight win in his third straight start. Winger P.C. Drouin skated his 400^th Fort Wayne career game since starting with the Komets in 2004-05. Sunday, Jan. 30, Fort Wayne Komets 3 at Texas Brahmas 2, OT The Komets sweep the three-game southern road tour with their seventh straight road win. First ever meeting and only meeting of the season at Texas. Right wing Derek Patrosso dished two assists for points in each game played for the week and finished the week riding a current CHL-high seven-game point and assist-scoring streak. Center Mathieu Curadeau scored the game winner in OT for this first game-winning goal of the season. Goalie Nick Boucher registered his fourth straight road win. ABOUT THIS WEEK Friday, Feb. 4, Wichita Thunder (23-15-3, 49 points) at Fort Wayne Komets (16-18-5, 37 points), 8pm ET Saturday, Feb. 5, Wichita Thunder at Fort Wayne Komets, 7:30pm ET The Komets return home to host the Wichita Thunder (23-15-3, 49 points) Friday night at 8:00 and again Saturday at 7:30pm. This is the only visit to Fort Wayne by the Thunder this season. The K's have a score to settle after suffering a 5-1 loss to Wichita in the only trip to Kansas of the season Dec. 10. The Thunder are unbeaten in their last eight games (7-0-1) and are coming off a pair of road wins at Dayton last weekend. The Turner Conference rivals enter this week trailing first place Colorado and Rapid City by three points. Wichita will be idle this week before making the trip to Fort Wayne Friday. The Thunder's game originally scheduled at Missouri this Tuesday has been postponed to March 22 due to the expected inclement weather near the Kansas City area. Great seats available -- Tickets for all 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. For more information visit the Komet office, call 260-483-0011 or visit the Komets' website at www.komets.com. *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 three fill-ups when the Komets host the Wichita Thunder this Friday at 8pm. Fill Up Cards are available at participating Marathon stations. COMCAST REPORT CARD NIGHT for 2011 is this Saturday* -- The 2011 Comcast Report Card Night will be Saturday, Feb. 5 when the Komets host Wichita at 7:30pm. Students with an "A" or "A equivalent" on a report card or teacher letter receives a free ticket to the game and Comcast makes a donation to the Literacy Alliance for every "A" student who attends. Komets FRONTIER sighting -- Fans can meet mascot Icy Eagle and Komets Leo Thomas and Brandon Warner at the Frontier Fios location on Coldwater Road Saturday, Feb. 5, from 10am-noon while checking out the Frontier Fios Specials. The Frontier location is in the Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts Plaza. Komet Hockey on News Talk 1190 WOWO -- Bob Chase is celebrating his 58th consecutive season behind the Komet microphone broadcasting radio-rinkside and can be heard on News Talk 1190 WOWO and at www.komets.com where games are webcast at Xfinity KometCast. Komets.com -- The official website for the Fort Wayne Komets is www.komets.com. In addition to live gamecasts, the Komets' home on the web also features news, stats, interactive fan features and information as well as real-time scoring via the CHL and Pointstreak. KOMETS PLANNER •Friday, Feb. 4...........Wichita Thunder at Komets, 8pm ET •Saturday, Feb. 5.......Wichita Thunder at Komets, 7:30pm ET All games broadcast on News Talk 1190 WOWO and webcast free at www.Komets.com at Xfinity KometCast. Komet practice schedule Tuesday, Feb. 1.........Team day off Wednesday, Feb. 2....10am-11:30am at Canlan ice arena Thursday, Feb. 3........10am-11:30am at Canlan ice arena Friday, Feb. 4............10am-11am at the Coliseum Saturday, Feb. 5........10am-11am at the Coliseum Monday, Feb. 7..........10am-11:30am at the Coliseum Tuesday, Feb. 8.........10am-11am at the Coliseum Wednesday, Feb. 9....10am-11am at the Coliseum CHL STANDINGS thru games of 1/30/11 Turner Conference TEAM GP W L OTL PTS WPCT GF GA PIM HOME ROAD L-TEN STREAK Colorado 42 25 15 2 52 .619 160 130 901 11-8-2 14-7-0 7-3-0 4-0-0 Rapid City 45 24 17 4 52 .578 149 151 872 10-8-2 14-9-2 6-4-0 5-0-0 Bloomington 40 24 14 2 50 .625 115 116 808 14-7-2 10-7-0 5-4-1 1-0-0 Wichita 41 23 15 3 49 .598 159 139 717 14-6-3 9-9-0 8-1-1 2-0-0 Quad City 42 23 18 1 47 .560 121 114 653 12-9-1 11-9-0 6-3-1 0-0-1 Missouri 41 21 16 4 46 .561 124 118 776 12-8-3 9-8-1 4-5-1 1-0-0 Dayton 41 20 17 4 44 .537 124 124 750 13-7-2 7-10-2 4-5-1 0-3-1 Fort Wayne 39 16 18 5 37 .474 105 121 827 7-9-3 9-9-2 6-2-2 3-0-0 Evansville 42 15 22 5 35 .417 124 156 805 7-10-2 8-12-3 5-5-0 1-0-0 TOTALS 373 191 152 30 412 .552 1181 1169 7109 - - - - Berry Conference TEAM GP W L OTL PTS WPCT GF GA PIM HOME ROAD L-TEN STREAK Allen 39 30 8 1 61 .782 171 122 795 13-5-1 17-3-0 8-2-0 0-1-0 Tulsa 43 23 19 1 47 .547 155 151 695 14-10-0 9-9-1 7-3-0 2-0-0 Bossier-Shreveport 43 22 19 2 46 .535 149 138 806 10-10-0 12-9-2 1-8-1 0-2-0 Texas 39 20 14 5 45 .577 131 128 836 11-6-3 9-8-2 5-3-2 0-0-1 Mississippi 43 21 20 2 44 .512 133 138 1095 13-8-1 8-12-1 5-4-1 0-0-1 Odessa 41 19 17 5 43 .524 149 148 875 8-9-0 11-8-5 4-3-3 0-2-0 Arizona 43 17 21 5 39 .453 131 164 1082 9-12-1 8-9-4 3-6-1 0-3-1 Rio Grande Valley 43 17 23 3 37 .430 131 152 893 7-9-2 10-14-1 4-6-0 0-1-0 Laredo 41 14 21 6 34 .415 125 146 849 8-9-3 6-12-3 3-6-1 0-4-0 TOTALS 375 183 162 30 396 .528 1275 1287 7926 - - - - FORT WAYNE KOMETS TEAMSTATS thru games of 1/30/11 # PLAYER POS GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG PPA SHG SHA GWG FG OTG UAG ENG SHOG SHOA SHO% SHOTS SPCT 23 Lardner, Tab F 25 14 5 19 +6 31 2 2 0 0 4 0 2 2 0 3 4 .750 75 .187 (TOTALS) 40 17 12 29 +6 47 3 5 0 0 4 0 2 2 0 3 4 .750 115 .148 14 DeAngelis, Frankie D 39 9 19 28 +3 36 5 11 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000 64 .141 71 Drouin, P.C. LW 38 8 20 28 -1 39 3 14 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 .000 93 .086 39 Patrosso, Derek RW 34 5 18 23 +5 24 4 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 .500 94 .053 2 Dupuis, Guy D 39 6 16 22 -3 44 5 9 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 3 .333 101 .059 44 Thomas, Leo C 26 11 9 20 +1 24 4 4 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000 76 .145 29 OConnor, Sean RW 36 5 13 18 -4 32 2 5 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 .000 88 .057 94 Curadeau, Mathieu C 35 7 10 17 -14 36 4 5 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 .500 102 .069 10 Francis, Chris F 31 4 13 17 -13 12 2 7 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 .000 105 .038 79 Schrock, Kaleigh F 33 10 5 15 -10 83 3 4 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 .000 76 .132 9 Warner, Brandon D 26 4 9 13 +2 65 3 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 55 .073 91 Chaulk, Colin F 12 3 10 13 +9 21 1 6 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 1 .000 15 .200 15 Musselwhite, Neil F 25 6 5 11 -8 16 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 42 .143 55 Podshendyalov, Art F 15 4 4 8 -3 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 .500 31 .129 X Naurato, Brandon LW 19 2 4 6 -6 22 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 46 .043 22 Lapointe, Dan F 9 2 4 6 +2 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000 21 .095 20 Phillips, Bobby D 33 3 2 5 -12 52 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 39 .077 7 Rodger, Keith D 29 1 4 5 -14 23 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 37 .027 72 Cescon, Craig D 34 0 4 4 -2 87 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 32 .000 82 Ratchuk, Michael D 3 0 3 3 +2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 4 Molle, Dustin D 12 1 1 2 +5 21 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 13 .077 3 Mironovic, Danko D 22 0 1 1 -7 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 19 .000 33 Boucher, Nick G 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 X Legault, Olivier LW 19 0 0 0 -3 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 7 .000 35 Reiter, Kevin G 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 .000 X Rechlicz, Marc RW 7 0 0 0 -3 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 4 .000 Delisle, Steven D 6 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 10 .000 X Cianfrini, David D 5 0 0 0 -4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 7 .000 X Ward, Matt F 4 0 0 0 -2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 10 .000 X Fletcher, Tyler LW 4 0 0 0 -2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 4 .000 GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG PPA SHG SHA GWG FG OTG UAG ENG SHOG SHOA SHO% SHOTS SPCT TOTALS 39 105 179 284 -72 827 44 83 3 1 16 19 3 7 3 7 21 .333 1267 .083 # GOALIE GP MIN W L OTL SO GA GAA SHOW SHO SHOGA SHOAA SAVES SPCT 33 Boucher, Nick 26 1444:01 11 10 4 0 74 3.07 1 3 7 17 690 .903 35 Reiter, Kevin 18 908:53 5 8 1 0 43 2.84 1 1 0 4 378 .898 TOTALS 39 16 18 5 0 121 3.10 2 4 7 21 1068 .898
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