Friday, November 28, 2008

Bears @ Albany Preview - 11/28

Hershey Bears
record ~ 15-5-0-1 31 points
standings ~ 1st in East Division
most recent game ~ 4-1 Win vs Binghamton, 11/26
last 5 games ~ 5-0-0-0
road record ~ 8-3-0-1
goals for ~ 92
goals against ~60
power play ~ 18.6% (10th)
penalty kill ~ 79.8% (24th)


Albany River Rats
record ~ 5-9-2-2 14 points
standings ~ Last in East Division
most recent game ~ 3-2 SO Win @ Binghamton, 11/27
last 5 games ~ 3-1-0-1
home record ~ 2-4-2-1
goals for ~ 39
goals against ~ 60
power play ~ 12.9% (26th)
penalty kill ~ 87.2% (5th)

last time teams met - Hershey won 3-0 at Albany on November 7.

Players to watch:

Hershey:

C Keith Aucoin (11)- In his last 5 games he has scored 4 goals and added 8 assists. Only 1 of his league leading 22 assists this season has come against Albany.
LW Oskar Osala (36) - No one has been hotter as of late. The Big O has 6 goals and 3 assists in his last 5 games. He has scored in both Albany games this season.
LW Alexandre Giroux (12) - 4 goals and 7 assists in the last 5 games. A traditional goal scoring power is becoming an assist machine with those 7.

Albany:

RW Jerome Samson (17) - In 12 games this season he is tied for second in points with 8 (5 goals and 3 assists). But he is a team leading -10 in 12 GAMES!
RW Jakub Petruzalek (16) - Leading the team in points with 5 goals and 4 assists for 9 points in 18 games.
C Stefan Chaput (15) - 12 games into his rookie season he has 2 goals and 6 assists to also tie for 2nd on the team in points.


There is only 1 team that has scored fewer goals than Albany this season and that is Rochester. San Antonio has also only scored 39 goals. But any way you look at it the Rats are having trouble offensively this season.

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