Battalion By The Numbers

BRAMPTON, Ont. – A look at Brampton Battalion statistics.
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INDIVIDUAL STATS
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Kurt MacSweyn´s offensive tear continues. The Battalion Captain, who leads the team in scoring with 19 points (11 goals, 8 assists), has scored 13 points in his last six games (8 goals, 5 assists) and he has the longest active goals-scoring streak in the league (five games). MacSweyn has scored the game´s first goal five times, tying him for the OHL lead in that category with Dustin Brown of the Guelph Storm. MacSweyn has collected a point in seven of his last 10 games. MacSweyn also leads the team in Plus/Minus (+14) and is among the OHL leaders in that category. MacSweyn didn´t score his 11th goal last season until Jan. 4 at Sarnia.
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Chris Clayton has scored in five of the six games he has played since missing a pair of games with an injury. Clayton has scored three goals and added five assists in that span and he has collected two multi-point games this season.
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Jay Harrison is the Battalion´s top scoring defenceman with 14 points (3 goals, 11 assists) and he has notched assists in five of his last six games. Harrison had scored 10 points after 17 games last year.
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After being held pointless early in the season and then missing nine games with an injury, Aaron Van Leusen has scored in two of the five games he has played since his return.
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Defenceman Paul Flache has a three-game point-scoring streak and he has scored three goals and added a pair of assists in his last eight games.
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Sophomore rearguard Cory LeClair, who only had one point in his rookie campaign, has collected assists in three of his last four games. LeClair has four assists this season.
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Rookie netminder Joey Biasucci is unbeaten in his last three starts (2-0-1) and he has yet to lose at the Bunker, with a win and a tie in his two career home starts.
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TEAM STATS
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The Troops are unbeaten in their last six games, with three wins and three ties. This streak is their longest unbeaten regular season run since January, when they were unbeaten in nine games (6 wins, 3 ties). The Battalion finished last season with a 2-1 win over Kitchener, then won five straight playoff games before losing in the second game of its series with Erie.
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The team is 6-7-3-1 through the first quarter of the season. Last year, after 17 games, the Battalion´s record was 7-6-3-1.
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The Battalion power play is ranked 12th in the OHL, with 15 goals in 86 opportunities with the man advantage (17.9%).
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The team has not given up more than one power play goal in a game since Oct. 21 against Windsor. Since that game, the Battalion penalty-killing unit has only allowed four goals in its last 24 shorthanded situations. Brampton´s penalty killers are ranked eighth in the league.
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Attendance has grown steadily in recent weeks. The Battalion is averaging 2,302 fans over its last five home games, compared to 1,887 in the first five games at the Bunker this year.
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