The Komets have scored three goals in their last four home losses and are 3-5-1 at Memorial Coliseum over their last nine games. They have scored 26 goals during those games, but 16 have come on the power play. If they don't score on the power play, they are not scoring.
Kind of an odd night at Memorial Coliseum.
* At least referee Brett Klosowski was consistent. I'll let you determine which way.
* That may be the only game in history when Dominic Osman, Konstantin Shafranov and Brandon Warner all get a penalty.
* Leo Thomas continues to impress me, not with his offense so much, though that is outstanding, but he's 10 times the defensive player I ever gave him credit for. He's really working hard.
* Doyle may be able to fight, but he sure can't play or skate. The Komets' best strategy was to ignore his taunts and just skate around him.
McMillen Ice Arena is holding a silent auction to benefit the Sled Hockey program. Sled Hockey gives youth and adults with disabilities an opportunity to participate in a fun and exciting sport.
Friday's game at Muskegon was postponed when the Komets turned around near Angola and headed home.
"We could feel the bus moving a little bit, and that's not a good feeling on something that big," trainer Shawn Dundon said.
Komets coach Al Sims said the Komets were going 10-20 mph and the traffic was down to one late and was very dangerous. The Komets left about 90 minutes earlier than they normally would to get to Muskegon.
"The further North we got, the roads were bad, there was no salt on them and some of them had not been plowed," veteran broadcaster Bob Chase said.
Komets could not get through to Muskegon. No make-up date set as of yet. Saturday's game is currently on schedule. More details to come.
He's been dealing with back problems since this summer which flared up against recently. You can read about it here.
Is now on sale through authorhouse.com. You can see the site here, or order it through Amazon if you choose. We hope to have it available through the bookstores by the first of the year.
IHL leading scorer Todd Robinson has been suspended one game for his slash against the Komets' Sean O'Co
Former Komet Tom Nemeth is being inducted into the Dayton Hockey Hall of Fame on March 14 after recently being inducted into the ECHL Hall of Fame. Nemeth is also one of a handful of players to play for the Komets in both the IHL and UHL.
During his career in Dayton, Nemeth played parts of nine seasons and holds Dayton Bombers records for games played, career points, assists and assists by a defensemen
[gallery]* Nick Boucher said he felt pretty good today after having to miss last Satudray's game with back spasms. These are also pictures of Nick's new mask. The three-headed dog on the front is Cerberus, the guard dog of Hades. On the back of his helmet, he has the words, "Get in the way," along with a horseshoe and a Komets logo. There's also a skull on top of the mask and the Boucher family code of arms on the chin. The mask was painted by
* Brad MacMillan is definitely out this weekend after getting his left pinky sliced open last week. It's actually healing pretty well.
You can read the story about it here, and see a special video from Iraq here. That's from Fort Wayne's Mark Boner who is serving with the national gua We've got some more stuff about this project coming later.
P.C. Drouin was named the IHL's Player of the Week and Nick Boucher the goaltender of the week this afternoon.
Before tonight's game, Komets' great Len Thornson and Applebees Chief Operations Officer Ron Long made the ceremonial puck drop along with Fort Wayne area director Kevin Bennett and Gretchen and Dean Spires of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. In Thornson's honor, Applebees made a $60,000 donation to Make-A-Wish.
Thornson and Long have been talking for a few months regarding the situation with Thornson's memorabilia and have developed a friendship.
Komets General Manager David Franke said this evening that forward Brad MacMillan will be out 1-to-2 weeks after getting his hand slashed open by a skate Friday night in Muskegon. No tendons were severed in the incident.
Franke also said it looks like forward Sean O'Connor is going to try to play tonight after getting slashed behind the knee Friday night in Muskegon by Lumerbacks center Todd Robinson. Franke said the Komets have asked IHL VP of Hockey Operations Brad Jones to review the play.
It's already been a great week for the Fort Wayne Komets, and there's still one game to go.
The Komets won 3-1 at Muskegon on Friday night to take over first place in the International Hockey League, going from fourth to first with wins in three straight road games.
The Fort Wayne Komets have reached their goal for the week the hard way.
At the start of the week, the Komets wanted a chance to play Muskegon tonight for first place in the International Hockey League, but first, they had to win two road games to get there. The Komets beat Port Huron 3-2 on Tuesday night and came back to win 4-3 at Flint on Thursday night to set up the showdown. The win moves them into a first-place tie with Muskegon with 25 points. Port Huron is third with 24 and Kalamazoo is fourth with 22.
The Fort Wayne Komets have won a Prestigious GAMEOPS.COM “Best of 2008 Award” for Kroger/Scott's Chuck-A-Puck in the “Best Contest or On-Field Promotion” Category
Or better known as Chad Ryan continues to get me in trouble! This time we interview Jake Pence, and you can see it here. Make sure you watch it all the way to the end.
