NWPA AHEC WEEKEND PREVIEW: Bears, Beers, and Family Fun Close November
Erie, Pennsylvania – It’s the holiday week and there’s no better place to spend it than at the Erie Insurance Arena!
On Wednesday, get your family excited for Turkey Day and watch your Erie Otters take on the Owen Sound Attack at 7 P.M. After enjoying time good food and better company, the Otters will play the Flint Firebirds on Saturday night for the first time at home.
AHEC YEAH!
NWPA AHEC’s Weekend Preview brings the latest news, promotions, and what YOU need to know before YOU go into the new weekend.
Northwest Pennsylvania Area Health Education Center is a non-profit organization committed to helping communities in Northwest Pennsylvania meet their primary health care needs and enhance the quality of health in our region especially the rural and underserved communities.
‘AHEC’ maintains partnerships with community, government, and educational agencies and institutions that will connect students to careers, professionals to communities and communities to better health.
Head to nwpaahec.org to learn more or to apply!
LAST TIME OUT
The Otters brought home four of six possible points and scored a total of 13 goals on the week.
On Wednesday against the Brampton Steelheads, the Otters put on a clinic and downed the visitors 7-4. Against the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds on Friday, Erie battled through a tense first and second period before pulling away with a 6-3 victory. Saturday against the Kitchener Rangers saw the Otters fall 4-0.
With the weekend’s results, the Erie Otters move to 4-1 at home in the month of November.
WHO TO WATCH
First OHL game, first OHL goal – welcome to Erie Callum Hughes! The Boston University commit played his first game as an Otter on Friday and made a big impact! The 6’1 forward gave the Otters their first lead of the night on Friday against the Soo Greyhounds and helped swing the game’s momentum to the home team and propel the Otters towards a 6-3 victory. With his first goal and an assist in the final five seconds of the game, Hughes fits in just fine in the OHL.
The Big Rig came in hot this weekend! Sam Alfano put up big numbers in the week’s three games with a hat trick and three assists across three games. Against the Brampton Steelheads, Alfano scored late in the first frame and two back-to-back goals in the third to complete his hatty and assist on the game-winner. On Friday, Alfano helped pull the Otters ahead with back-to-back assists on both the game-winner and the insurance goal to lock in the Otters’ victory.
KNOW THE FOE
The Owen Sound Attack lost four of their last five games, with their last three losses all being with a final score of 4-3. Players to watch for the Attack include Sam McCue with six goals and one assist in his last six games, and Landen Hookey, who has contributed six assists in the last four games.
The Flint Firebirds took home two losses last weekend, an 8-1 defeat against the Saginaw Spirit and a close 3-2 loss to the Barrie Colts. Players to watch for the Firebirds include Alex Kostov, who picked up two assists against the Barrie Colts, and Jimmy Lombardi, who had an assist in both games on the weekend.
HOW TO WATCH, LISTEN, & FOLLOW ALONG
WATCH:
“OHL Live” is the Ontario Hockey League’s broadcast home on CHL TV! OHL Live delivers a high-quality viewing experience while providing access to more than 700 OHL games streamed across a range of platforms including:
- PC and/or Tablet on Safari and Google Chrome web browsers
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For less than $2/game, OHL Live provides live game action all season long, plus free-to-access video-on-demand content and a user-friendly interface that is easy to navigate. For more information, head to watch.chl.ca/ohl!
Fans in Northeast and Southwest Ohio now have the opportunity to watch tape-delayed Erie Otters home broadcasts as a part of the team’s new partnership with Rock Entertainment Sports Network. Check the programming schedule on your local Gray Media station for more information.
Saturday’s game against Flint will also air tape-delayed on Sunday, December 1 on WNEM TV-5 in Mid-Michigan. Check local listings in the Bay City/Saginaw/Midland/Flint area to see air-time.
LISTEN:
Listen to Otters Hockey all across Lake Erie on the league’s largest radio network! The Otters Radio Network gives fans the most-accessible and highest-quality way to experience every moment of Otters’ game night – from pregame to postgame.
Every game can feel like a home game as a fan with the Otters Radio Network. With live-game broadcasts of all 68 Regular Season games, fans can always hear the action as it happens. Thanks to the Broadcast Home for Otters Hockey, iHeart Media Erie, fans can listen to every game LIVE on the iHeart App from ANYWHERE in the world! From Pennsylvania to Transylvania and everywhere in between, you’ll always be in range to hear Otters Hockey.
The Otters Radio Network is larger than ever before on terrestrial & digital radio – from Southeast Michigan to Southwest New York!
- iHeart Media (Erie, PA) is the Flagship Station for the Otters on WJET 1400 AM, and home to Otters Hockey in Pennsylvania. Games can be heard on terrestrial radio on 96.7 FM/1400 AM in Erie and surrounding communities of NWPA, or can be livestreamed worldwide on the iHeart App.
- Media One Radio Group – Ohio (Ashtabula, OH) is home to Otters Hockey in Ohio on ESPN 970 WFUN. Games can be heard on terrestrial radio on 970 AM in Ashtabula and surrounding communities of Northeast Ohio and NWPA, or can be livestreamed worldwide on WFUN’s website.
- Media One Radio Group – New York (Jamestown, NY) is home to Otters Hockey in New York State on Legends 1340 WKSN. Games can be heard on terrestrial radio on 1340 AM in Jamestown and surrounding communities of Southwest New York and NWPA, or can be livestreamed worldwide on WKSN’s website.
- ESPN Radio Michigan Regional Sports Network (Flint, MI) is home to Otters Hockey in Michigan. Games can be livestreamed worldwide on MRSN’s website.
Fans can also listen to the game on any of the Otters’ four radio-homes on the Listen Live page. The Otters Hockey Pregame Show starts 20 minutes prior to puck drop, hosted by the Otters broadcast team of Shawn Bednard and Trevor Kubeja.
Make sure to tune in weekdays from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. on Fox Sports 1330, Happi 92.7 FM, WERG 90.5 FM, 106.3 FM WCTL, Kinzua County 104.3 FM (Warren, PA), Channel 98.9 FM & Sunny 105.7 FM (Corry, PA), FOX Sports Radio Oil City 1120 & 104.1 FM (Oil City), ESPN 970 WFUN (Ashtabula, OH), WKSN 1340 AM & WQFX 103.1 (Jamestown, NY), and ESPN Radio MRSN (Flint, MI) to hear the ‘Otters Daily Update’, giving you all the insight on your Otters.
FOLLOW ALONG
If you want to follow along in-real-time to the weekend’s games, make sure you’re following the Otters on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. From live tweets of the action, scoring updates, photos, and highlights, Otters’ social media is the best way to keep up with the team wherever they are.
UP NEXT
The Otters will hit the road again next week for a three-in-four trip.
For the first and only time, the Otters will head to North Bay and battle the Batallion on Thursday. They’ll take to the road immediately after and play the Sudbury Wolves the very next day. After a day of rest on Saturday, the Otters will head to Brampton to play the Steelheads for the second week in a row.
Erie won’t return home until December 14 for Winter Wonderland Night.
