Saturday, November 15, 2008

Phantoms @ Bears Preview, 11/15

Hershey Bears
record ~ 10-5-0-1 21 points
standings ~ 2nd in East Division
most recent game ~ 3-2 Win @ Philadelphia, 11/14
last 5 games ~ 2-2-0-1
home record ~ 3-2-0-0
goals for ~ 63
goals against ~53
power play ~ 15.0% (19th)
penalty kill ~ 77.4% (27th)


Philadelphia Phantoms
record ~ 8-7-0-0 16 points
standings ~ 4th in East Division
most recent game ~ 3-2 Loss vs Hershey, 11/14
last 5 games ~ 3-2-0-0
road record ~ 6-4-0-0
goals for ~ 42
goals against ~ 40
power play ~ 19.8% (7th)
penalty kill ~ 89.3% (5th)

last time teams met - Hershey won 3-2 last night in Philly.

Players to watch:

Hershey:

C Keith Aucoin (11)- He needs to start producing again. He has 2 assists in his last 8 games and the team is not producing without him. No points last night.
LW Chris Bourque (17) - A nice game last night with a goal and an assist. Now lets see it happen again, back to back good games? Let's hope so.
C Mathieu Perrault (24) - He makes the rookie line go and he did again last night. Right now I would say he is playing the best hockey on the team.

Philadelphia:

LW Boyd Kane
(28) - He has 6 goals and 4 assists this season. 5 of those goals have come against the Bears.
D Danny Syvret (25) - The defenseman has 3 goals and 11 assists so far and is leading the team in points. Against Hershey he has a goal and 5 assists in 4 games.
RW Claude Giroux (19) - He is second on the team with 12 points (5 goals and 7 assists) in 15 games. 1 goal and 4 assists in 4 games against the Bears.


The second of three games this weekend. Daren Machesney will PROBABLY get the start in goal tonight.

Strange but true....the Phantoms do not have a SINGLE player on their roster right now who is a plus in plus/minus. Everyone is either even or worse. The worst player....Jonathon Matsumoto...a -10. In comparison the Bears only have 3 players in the minus, Reid, Amadio, and G McNeill. EVERYONE else is a plus. It does kinda show that plus/minus isn't the most important stat you can look at.

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