The ‘Cats Come Calling
Moncton Wildcats @ Lewiston MAINEiacs
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Androscoggin Bank Colisee
Season Five - Game # 17 - Home Game # 10
Game Time: 4:00 PM ET
Media: ESPN 1470 AM in Lewiston/Auburn; ESPN 870 AM in Portland;
Audio Stream; Webcast on TELUS
Quick Stats
Lewiston MAINEiacs
5th Place, Eastern Division
Record: 8-7-1-0 (17 pts)
Streak: Lost 3
Last 5: 2-2-1-0
Power Play: 19.6% (21 PPGF) 6th (3 PPGA)
Penalty Kill: 84.0% (15 SHGA) 10th (2 SHGF)
Players to watch:
11-LW- Stefano Giliati (10-8-18) 3 PPG; 5 GWG
22-LW- Chris Tutalo (2-10-12) 2 PPG
34-C- Stefan Chaput (6-5-11) 1 PPG; 1 GWG
46-D- Kevin Marshall (5-6-11) 4 PPG; 1 GWG
47-RW- Danick Hudon-Paquette (6-4-10) 5 PPG
1-G- Jonathan Bernier (0-2; 4.10 GAA; 0.837 SAV%)
30-G- Peter Delmas (7-6; 2.75 GAA; 0.909 SAV%)
33-G- Kirk Rafuse (1-0; 5.86 GAA; 0.773 SAV%)
Moncton Wildcats
7th Place, Eastern Division
Record: 7-9-1-1 (16 pts)
Streak: Won 1
Last 5: 2-3-0-0
Power Play: 12.7% (15 PPGF) 15th (3 PPGA)
Penalty Kill: 78.0% (24 SHGA) 17th (2 SHGF)
Players to Watch:
36-C- Matt Eagles (8-10-18) 3 PPG; 1 SHG
61-LW- Matt Marquardt (10-5-15) 4 PPG; 2 GWG
77-C- Phil Mangan (3-12-15) 1 PPG; 1 GWG
17-C- Randy Cameron (5-6-11) 2 PPG; 1 GWG
44-D- Mark Barberio (3-7-10) 2 PPG
29-G- Nicola Riopel (6-7; 2.98 GAA; 0.905 SAV%)
31-G- Charles Lavigne (1-4; 2.42 GAA; 0.920 SAV%)
Head-to-Head
(Lewiston leads season series 1-0)
MAINEiacs Tangle With Wildcats
The roller-coaster ride that is the 2007-08 season for the Lewiston MAINEiacs continues this afternoon at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. Lewiston looks to snap a three-game losing streak at the expense of the Moncton Wildcats, who have had problems of their own.
The ‘Cats are just 2-8 in October with a six-game losing streak to start off the month. Moncton is 2-2 in their last four games, with a 3-2 win over Rimouski on October 20th, and Friday night’s 7-2 pounding of Cape Breton.
In Friday’s game against the Screaming Eagles, the Wildcats’ sagging special teams woke up in a big way, going 5 for 8 (62.5%) on the power play, while killing off 6 of 7 (85.7%) on the penalty kill. Moncton’s near bottom rating on the advantage and disadvantage is a little deceiving, as the ‘Cats have scored 8 goals in thier last 25 chances (32.0%) and have killed of 17 of their last 21 (80.1%) a man down. Prior to Friday’s game against Cape Breton, Moncton was 4 of 24 (16.7%) on the power play heading into that contest and had started to turn in around.
Matt Eagles has a three-game point streak for Moncton. The 19 year-old center has a goal and four assists in his last three contests. The native of Quebec City had a three point night Friday (1-2-3) against Cape Breton.
Lewiston enters the game trying to shake off a pair of bad games against Saint John and Chicoutimi, where high frequency turnovers, indicipline and selfish play ruled both losses. Somewhere since the return to Lewiston from Val-d’Or last week, the ‘Team Concept’ switch was turned off and the ‘I’ll Do Everything On My Own’ light was flipped on, and as a result, two very bad games.
No point in naming names, as everyone is responsible. It’s going to take everyone to turn it around, and the sooner that locker room figures that out, the better. There is no need for the kind of display of the previous two nights, especially for a team far more talented, and far more the team, than what was shown.
MAINEiacs Upcoming Bus Trips
Nov 18-19 Drummondville & Shawinigan
Dec 8 Chicago Wolves @ Manchester Monarchs (AHL)
Dec 16 Victoriaville
Jan 11-13 Quebec & Chicoutimi
Feb 2-3 Quebec Winter Carnival
Feb 22-24 Moncton & Saint John
See Sheila under the Lee Auto-Fan Attic (Section 7) at the game this afternoon or call her at 783-9650.
