- There will definitely be some line up changes for the game this afternoon. Dallas Ehrhardt is out with an upper body injury, Garrett Klotz returns from suspension and it is expected Phil Fox will return to the ice. Bryan Pitton will start in goal and of course there will be a new goalie (Speer) on the bench.
- The Americans take on the Quad City Mallards at 4:05 this afternoon at the Allen Event Center (AEC). While the Allen players did not play yesterday and got to sleep in their own beds Quad City beat Wichita last night in Wichita and had to travel to Allen overnight. The Mallards also played on the road Friday losing to Tulsa 4-3 in Tulsa. So advantage Allen from a rest standpoint as this will be a three in three for Quad City with a 4:05 start to boot.
- This will be the first visit to the AEC for the Mallards this year. The teams have played twice this year in Quad City. On February 5th Quad won 5-2 and on February 7th Allen won 5-2.
- Allen & Quad City are tied in the standings for fourth place with 58 points however, the Mallards have two games in hand over the Americans.
- The referee assigned to this game (Jake Brenk) has been causing the coaches fits the last few times the Americans have had him. It is difficult for the players to know what is and isn't a penalty. I have heard similar complaints about Brenk from other teams around the league regarding consistency of calls. Let's hope the referee is not the focal point of the game and he is in the background and not noticed. But as a reminder the last five times the Americans have had Brenk as the referee he has given 34 power play opportunities to the opponents while giving Allen 18.
- Team by team comparison:
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Allen Americans Quad City Mallards
RESULT OF LAST GAME WIN 4-3 vs WIC WIN 4-1 vs WIC
GAMES PLAYED 49 47
RECORD 27-18-4 25-14-8
POINTS 58 58
HOME RECORD 13-8-3 14-6-3
AWAY RECORD 14-10-1 11-8-5
SHO RECORD 4-3 2-5
LAST 10 GAMES 2-8-0 6-4-0
LAST 5 GAMES 1-4-0 2-3-0
OCTOBER 5-0-1 1-1-1
NOVEMBER 7-6-0 6-2-3
DECEMBER 5-4-1 8-3-1
JANUARY 8-1-2 4-3-3
FEBRUARY 2-7-0 6-5-0
SCORING FIRST 16-6-3 18-4-4
LEADING AFTER 1ST 11-6-0 9-2-1
LEADING AFTER 2ND 16-2-3 15-2-2
TIED AFTER 1ST 10-4-3 13-8-4
TIED AFTER 2ND 9-4-1 6-3-1
TRAILING AFTER 1ST 6-8-1 3-4-3
TRAILING AFTER 2ND 2-12-0 4-9-5
WHEN OUTSHOOTING OPPONENT 14-10-1 13-7-3
1 - GOAL GAMES 13-3-4 10-6-8
GOALS FOR PER GAME 3.51 3.34
GOALS AGAINST PER GAME 3.31 2.94
SHOTS FOR PER GAME 33.43 32.26
SHOTS AGAINST PER GAME 32.55 30.94
POWER PLAY RECORD 44 - 246 17.9% 34 - 237 14.3%
PENALTY KILLING RECORD 47 - 262 82.1% 30 - 183 83.6%
SH GOALS FOR 9 7
SH GOALS AGAINST 7 7
PIM AVERAGE 23.20 14.43
- Special teams as usual will most likely make the difference in the game. Allen is rated #6 in the league on both the power play and the penalty kill. Quad City has difficulty on the power play and is ranked #9 in the league at 14.35% but on the road their power play is only 10.9%. If the Americans hold the Mallards scoreless on the power play they will have a good chance of winning the game.
- There were three games in the CHL last night and in each case the team higher in the standings won the game. Missouri beat Denver 6-3 in Denver before a much improved turnout of 3198. Arizona for the second straight night took their game with Rapid City to overtime only to lose 2-1 and Quad City beat Wichita 4-1.
- The one statistic that always amazes me is the CHL leading goal scorer, Garett Bembridge's shots on goal. He has 284 shots on goal which is 75 more shots than anyone else in the league and almost twice as many shots as Allen's leaders in shots, Jonathan Lessard (150) & Alex Lavoie (145).
DID YOU KNOW: Today's game is only the fourth time Quad City has played in Allen in four years.
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