On the prowl for playoffs
On the prowl for playoffs
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The Moncton Wildcats have just over a month of regular season play left with 26 points available. This coming week the Wildcats travel to
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Skills Competition
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In the Skill Competition, sponsored by
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Fastest skater Scott Brannon (4.6 s)
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Shot accuracy Jesse Bidkue(4), Alexi Pianosi (4), Mark Barberio (4)
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Rapid fire Scott Brannon (3)
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Puck control Team White (Boyle, Biduke, Lessard, Stephens, Tolles, Bezak, Sill, Henegan, Brown and Riopel)
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Shootout Tie
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Overall Winner Team White
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Reading is Wild
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The Reading is Wild program sponsored by the Royal Bank and the Times & Transcript has finished the third week. There are 4 schools and 1 521 students involved in the 10th year of the program.
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Edith Cavell has read 10693 books and Arnold H. McLeod has read 10426 books. Carrefour de l’Acadie has read 2159 books and Ecole Amirault has read 14838 books.
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All for a grand total of 38116 books !
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LAST WEEK
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Friday February 8th vs Lewiston Moncton
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GAME NOTES:
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Lewiston
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The Moncton Wildcats and Lewiston MAINEiacs battled for 65 minutes and were unable to decide a winner on Friday night at the Coliseum.
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The MAINEiacs’ Lucas LaBelle scored the only goal of the first period at 13:09, it was unassisted.
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The Wildcats evened the game at 10:15 of the second period with Zach Sill’s 13th of the season from Matt Boyle and Devon MacAusland. Just over a minute later at 11:23, Matt Eagles netted his 21st of the year, a power play goal with Mark Barberio getting the assist.
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The MAINEiacs tied the game at 08:48 of the third on Patrick Cusack’s shot from the blueline, Stefan Chaput and Eric Gelinas got the helpers. Eagles with his second of the night restored the Wildcat lead at 14:32 with Jess Biduke setting up the play. The lead was short lived when LaBelle scored his second of the game at 15:13 from Alexander Beaton and Michael Ward.
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The five minute overtime period failed to produce a winner. Both teams failed to score on the first two shoot out chances. Stefano Giliati beat Cats goaltender Charlie Lavigne on the third try and Mark Barberio’s effort to even the count was foiled by
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Shots on goal were 29-28 in favor of the Wildcats. On the power play,
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Matt Eagles was named the game’s first star, Lucas LaBelle got the nod as the second star and Zach Sill was star number 3.
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THIS WEEK
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Wednesday February 13th vs Saint John
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GAME NOTES:
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The Moncton Wildcats will face the Saint John Sea Dogs. The Sea Dogs are currently 1st Eastern division with 74 points. Christopher DiDomenico leads the Sea Dogs with 34 goals, 46 assists and 80 points in 54 games so far this season.
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Sunday February 17th vs Cape Breton
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GAME NOTES:
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The Moncton Wildcats will face the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles. The Screaming Eagles are currently 3rd Eastern division with 68 points. Dean Ouelle leads the Screaming Eagles with 36 goals, 46 assists and 82 points in 56 games so far this season.
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INSIDE THE NUMBERS
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Quick Stats
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Overall Record: 19-28-2-8
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Home Record: 12-11-1-5
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Road Record: 7-17-1-3
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Overtime Record: 4-2-8
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Shootout Record: 3-8
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Penalty Kill: 227/298 76.2% (6)
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Power Play: 57/332 17.2% (10)
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Most goals: Matt Eagles (22)
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Most assists: Matt Eagles (29), Mark Barberio (29)
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Most power play goals: Matt Eagles (9)
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Most shorthanded goals: Pierre-Marc Lessard (2)
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Most Game winners: Randy Cameron (2), Zach Sill (2), Jesse Biduke (2)
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Most Wins:
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Most PIMs: Chris Morehouse (120)
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Leading Scorers
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Matt Eagles 22-29-51
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Mark Barberio 7-29-36
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Randy Cameron 11-22-33
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Leading Goaltenders
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Charles Lavigne (6-17-0) 3.14 .901
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Plus/Minus Leaders
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TICKETS AND INFORMATION
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Phone: 506-857-4100 Fax: 506-859-2678
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Great seats are still available beginning as low as $11 and can be purchased by calling (506) 857-4100, purchasing online at www.tickets.moncton.ca or visiting the Moncton Coliseum Box Office. Information on Flex Ticket Plans and Discounted Group Rates for the remaining 2007-08 season of Moncton Wildcats Hockey is available by calling 382-5555 or logging on www.moncton-wildcats.com.
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To book a group to a Wildcats game call 506-382-5555.
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The Moncton Wildcats along with
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To be a part of this memorable event the public can visit their nearest
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CATCH THE WILDCATS ACTION
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All Moncton Wildcats games, home and away, are broadcast on Radio 91.9 and on the Wildcats website at www.moncton-wildcats.com. Join the voice of the Wildcats, Gerry Green for all the play-by-play action.
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All Wildcats games will also be webcast on www.moncton-wildcats.com and qmjhl.mytelus.com.
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The Wildcats will televise one more game from the Moncton Coliseum on Rogers Television channel 10.
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rSaturday March 8, 2008 16:00
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WILDCATS ITINERARY
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All times subject to change
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Monday 1:30PM – 3:30PM practice @ Moncton Coliseum
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Tuesday 1:15PM – 3:15PM practice @ Moncton Coliseum
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Wednesday Wildcats vs Saint John 7:00PM @ Harbour Station
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Thursday 1:30PM – 3:30PM practice @ 4-Plex
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Friday 12:30PM – 2:30PM practice @ Arena AJL-Dieppe
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Sunday Wildcats vs
