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Written by: Ron Valerino on 11/01/2001 
GOALIE OF THE WEEK: Tyrone Garner -- Greenville Grrrowl The 23-year-old Garner went 2-1-0 with a 1.88 goals against average and a .950 save percentage while playing three games in three nights. He opened the week with a 3-1 loss against Trenton on Thursday, but rebounded on Friday making 39 saves and picking up an assist in a 4-1 win against Macon. The 6-3 and 200-pound Garner closed out the week with 35 saves in a 4-1 win at Richmond to improve to 4-2-1 with a 1.82 goals against average and a .942 save percentage. Garner, who was drafted in the fourth round (96th overall) by the New York Islanders in 1996, leads the ECHL with 211 saves.
NORTHERN CONFERENCE NOTES:
ROANOKE: The Roanoke Express lost in regulation for the first time this season in Charlotte on Friday night, but bounced back on Saturday beating Wheeling. The Express is now 6-1-1 and faces a home and home series against Atlantic City this weekend. Goal scorers this week : Rick Kowalsky, Joe Dusbabek, Bret DeCecco, Frank Novock, and Terence Tootoo.RICHMOND: The Renegades are now 5-2 after splitting two games at home last weekend. Rod Taylor played in his 596th career ECHL game Saturday. He can tie the league record held by Bob Woods Sunday in Cincinnati. Taylor is 57 points away from becoming the ECHL's all-time career scoring leader.
ATLANTIC CITY: Luke Curtin scored a pair of goals, including one on the power play, and Shawn Degagne stopped 34 shots as the Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies earned their first road victory of the season, 3-2 over the Reading Royals.
READING: The Reading Royals have acquired another player. Reading picked up big defenseman, Philippe Lakos from the Florida Everblades for future considerations. In four games with Florida this season, Lakos picked up six minutes in penalties. Prior to joining Florida this season, the Toronto Ontario native played for the Toledo Storm last season and Jacksonville in 1999-00. For Toledo, Lakos racked up almost 200 penalty minutes in 66 games.
CHARLOTTE: Former Charlotte Checker Richard Scott was called up from the AHL's Hartford Wolf Pack and played with the New York Rangers on Saturday night in Boston. With the call up, Scott became the 12th former Charlotte Checker to play in the National Hockey League. Scott, 23, played junior hockey with the Oshawa Generals in the OHL. In his last season in Oshawa, Scott tallied 24 points (12g, 12a) and 193 penalty minutes in 54 games. In 1999-00, his first season in Charlotte, the 6-2, 195-pound left wing recorded 317 penalty minutes, which is the second most by any Checker in a single season. Scott appeared in only 59 games as a Checker in his career and ranks seventh on the Checkers' all-time penalty minute list with 339.
PEORIA: After opening the season 0-3-1, Peoria has won its last three games to move from the bottom of the Northwest Division up to second place, only one point behind leader Cincinnati. The Rivermen swept their home-and-home series against Toledo last weekend, winning 4-3 in a shootout at home on Friday and 5-2 at Toledo on Saturday.
TOLEDO: Last weekend the Storm lost a pair of games to Peoria. The Storm's winless streak has now hit 5, which ties the longest winless streak in franchise history.
DAYTON: In a relatively light week of game action, the Dayton Bombers defeated the Cincinnati Cyclones 4-1 on Sunday night in the team's lone ECHL contest. With the triumph, the Bombers improved to 2-3. In addition, they avenged a 5-2 loss at Cincinnati on October 20 in the teams' first regular season head-to-head encounter. Rookie forwards Preston Mizzi and Jeff Boulanger netted their first professional goals. Rob Bonneau and Bill McCauley also scored for the Bombers.
TRENTON: On Friday Ben Stafford recorded a hat trick as the Trenton Titans outlasted the Columbia Inferno, 8-6, to tie the ECHL record for consecutive season-opening wins with eight. Saturday the host South Carolina Stingrays ended the Trenton Titans' season-opening eight-game winning streak with a 5-3 victory.
CINCINNATI: Saturday night Yevgeny Pavlov scored twice and Eric Lavigne had a goal and an assist as the visiting Cincinnati Cyclones defeated the Johnstown Chiefs, 5-3. Sunday Jeff Zehr netted the only tally for the Cyclones, who had a four-game winning streak stopped by Dayton losing 4-1.
JOHNSTOWN: The Saint John Flames announced today that left-wing Dan Carlson has been re-assigned to the Johnstown Chiefs, the Club's East Coast Hockey League affiliate. Carlson began the season with Johnstown and posted 2 goals and 3 assists for 5 points in 4 games before being recalled by Saint John on October 20. Carlson appeared in 4 games with Saint John during his recall and collected 2 penalty minutes. The Flames also announced today that defenceman Philippe Roy has been released from his Professional Tryout Agreement and will report to the Johnstown Chiefs. Roy began the season with Saint John and collected 1 assist and 15 penalty minutes in 9 games with the Flames. Eric Schneider is currently on a 5 game goal scoring streak. The Chiefs penalty kill is ranked 26th in the ECHL (42 of 56; 75.0%).
WHEELING: The Nailers split the weekend losing to Roanoke 4-1 on Saturday and bouncing back with a 6-2 win over Johnstown. On Saturday Demitri Doulebenets scored the lone Nailer goal. Sunday Bogdan Rudenko popped in 3 first period goals. Also scoring for the Nailers was Brendan Walsh, Kurt Drummond, and Dylan Gyori. Wheeling's power play is ranked 8th in the ECHL (6 for 33; 18.2%). Former Pittsburgh Penguin Chris Wells has three assists in six games with the Nailers. Brendan Walsh is tied for second in the ECHL with 12 minor penalties. Goalie Joel Laing has started all six games for Wheeling. Tyler MacKay has not seen any action. The Nailers only return five members from last years team (Mike Hurley, Arpad Mihaly, J.P. Soucy, Doug Schmidt and Joel Laing). The Nailers are only allowing 2.17 goals/game, (2nd lowest in the ECHL).
PITTSBURGH FORGE NAHL JUNIOR A ...... NEWS:
Find all the info you need on Pittsburgh's new Junior A team at:
http://www.pittsburghforge.com/
http://www.nahl.com/
North American Hockey League perennial power, Detroit's Compuware Ambassadors make their first visit to Neville Island and the Pittsburgh Forge, Friday November 2 & Saturday November 3, with both games dropping the puck at 7:30 pm.
The Forge sit four points back of the Ambassadors in the standings, looking to jump into first place in the Eastern Division. The task won't be an easy one, as Compuware brings an 11 game winning streak into town with them. Forces will collide throughout the weekend, as the Forge put their league-best power play (26.8 percent) up against the Ambassadors league-leading penalty killing unit. (91.6 percent) The struggle carries over to the other side of the puck as well, with the Ambassadors sporting the #2 power play in the league (26.5) and the Forge the #3 penalty kill (84.7).
Heading into the weekend, the hot hand for the Forge is Kenny Trombetta, with 7 points (4 goals, 3 assists) in his last 4 games.
PITTSBURGH PROSPECTS STATS 2001/2002 Season ....
** Names and Stats will be updated for the 2001/2002 season **
PITTSBURGH BORN PROSPECTS STATS:
Player POS Team GP G A PTS PIM
Bill Thomas F Cleveland NAHL 11 1 2 3 6
Carmin Posteraro F Capital NAHL 11 2 2 4 13
Dave Gallagher F Texas NAHL 10 5 2 7 2
Sean Berkstressor F Pittsburgh NAHL 8 0 1 1 19
Bernie Chmiel D Pittsburgh NAHL 12 3 3 6 15
Brian Hartman D Pittsburgh NAHL 14 1 0 1 12
Mike Handza F Pittsburgh NAHL 14 9 5 14 16
Denis Kirstein F Pittsburgh NAHL 12 1 2 3 27
Dylan Reese F Pittsburgh NAHL 13 2 4 6 24
Chris Wey D Pittsburgh NAHL 8 0 0 0 12
Ken Trombetta F Pittsburgh NAHL 14 5 7 12 32
Pat Levendusky F Pittsburgh NAHL 9 6 5 11 4
JB Bittner F Ohio State CCHA 4 1 2 3 19
R.J. Umberger F Ohio State CCHA 4 2 3 5 2
Jason Crain D Ohio State CCHA 4 1 2 3 2
Keith Stanich D Wayne State CHA 4 0 0 0 6
Jim Abbott F New Hampshire HE 4 0 3 3 2
Jamie King D Mercyhurst MAAC 3 0 0 0 2
Cliff Loya D Maine HE 6 0 1 1 14
Ryan Malone F St. Cloud WCHA 6 3 3 6 10
Joe Gaul F Dartmouth ECAC x x x x x
Tucker Veenis D Colgate ECAC 4 1 0 1 0
Gabe Rehak F Army MAAC 2 0 0 0 4
Lou Garriton F Billings AWHL 6 5 0 5 2
Matt Puntureri F Guelph OHL 14 0 1 1 7
GPI AVG W L SOL SO SPCT
Mike Betz G Ohio State CCHA 4 3.19 2 1 1 0 0.880
Tim Heneroty G Pittsburgh NAHL 14 2.57 11 3 0 0 0.895
Mike Polidor G Air Force 8 4.69 3 4 0 0 0.854
Dwight LaBrosse G Guelph OHL 14 3.39 7 5 2 1 0.895
** Anyone knowing of a Pittsburgh kid playing minor pro, college or Junior
A, send me an email with updates and I'll include him in the stats **
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