Tonight's Game vs Saskatoon Blades
The Broncos start 3 games in as many nights tonight and are on their 2nd of 3rd straight at home… The Broncos are coming off a convincing 5-2 win over the Kamloops Blazers on Wednesday…Swift Current outshot Kamloops 40-25 including a 17-3 margin in the second period…Geordie Wudrick and Adam Lowry scored 36 seconds apart late in the period to turn the game in the Broncos favor…Michael Stickland, Mike Brown and Brad Hoban had the other Bronco goals…Andy Blanke picked up his 1st WHL point in the game… Morgan Clark was solid in goal making 23 stops as the 2 Blazer goals were both on the power-play…Swift Current was 0-5 on the man advantage while Kamloops was 2-3.
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NUMBERS: Cody Eakin leads the Broncos with 9 goals, including 5 on the power-play…Justin Dowling leads the team in assists with 11 and points with 15…Eric Doyle leads the team in regular season games played with 260…Adam Lowry and Reece Scarlett lead the rookie scoring with 5 points…Eric Doyle leads all defensemen with 8 points…Michael Stickland leads the team in penalty minutes with 27…The Broncos are outscoring their opponents 40-27 at home but are being outscored 19-6 on the road…Justin Dowling has 14 points in his last 10 games and leads the Broncos with 5 multi point games…Brad Hoban has 9 points in his last 9 games…Mike Brown has goals in 3 straight games…The Broncos are 4-1 when scoring first…Cody Eakin is tied for 2nd in the WHL for power-play goals with 5 and is tied for 4th in the WHL for goals scored with 9…Alexandre Sirard has a 2.59 goals against average, good for 5th in the WHL and best among rookie goalies…The Broncos are 5-0 when leading after 2 periods of play…They are outshooting their opponents 141-104 in the second period…Derek Claffey leads the team with a +9 rating.
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AT HOME: The Broncos are 7-1 at home on the season…Morgan Clark is 5-1 at home…Justin Dowling leads the Broncos with 12 points at home this season.
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REGULAR SEASON VS. Saskatoon: Tonight is the first of 8 meetings between the Blades and Broncos…Last season the teams split the series 4-4.
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VS. EAST DIVISION: The Broncos are 3-3 versus the East Division over-all and 3-0 at home.
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INJURY REPORT: Broncos forward Matt Tassone is on the injury list after shoulder surgery and should return to the club in November.
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MILESTONES: Eric Doyle is 2 points shy of 150 for his career…Derek Claffey is 4 games shy of 150 for his career…Geordie Wudrick is 11 points shy of 150 for his career.
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SPECIAL TEAMS: The Broncos power-play is 10 for 65, 15.4% (16th) and the penalty kill is 81.3%, giving up 12 goals on 64 tries (5th)…The Broncos have scored 2 short-handed goals while they have given up 1…The Broncos are 3-32 on the power-play over the last 6 games (9%).
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ROSTER: The Broncos roster currently consists of 24 players…The team has 4 – 20 year old players, 4 – 19 year old players, 7 – 18 year old players, 6 – 17 year old players, and 3 – 16 year old players…Fifteen Broncos were drafted by Swift Current, 6 were listed and 3 were traded for… Geographically 14 Broncos are from Alberta, 6 of which call Calgary home…Four players are from Saskatchewan, three are from BC, two are from Manitoba and one is from Texas…The team has 9 rookies and 13 veterans…The team has no European players.
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NEW FACES: For the first time in 5 years, the Broncos have a new man at the helm as local product Mark Lamb is the team’s new head coach and general manger succeeding Dean Chynoweth who moved onto the New York Islanders…Lamb spent the last 7 seasons in the NHL as an assistant coach with the Dallas Stars…Lamb won a Stanley Cup as a player for the Edmonton Oilers in 1990.
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UPCOMING GAMES: The Broncos host the Regina Pats on Saturday night before travelling to the Queen City for the back end of a home and home on Sunday night.
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DRAFTED BRONCOS: Matt Tassone (Dallas ’08)…Geordie Wudrick (LA ’08)…Morgan Clark (Vancouver ’08)…Cody Eakin (Washington ’09)…The Broncos have had at least 1 player drafted in each year…The Broncos string of 23 straight years of having a player drafted into the NHL leads the WHL…The only other teams to have a player drafted in each year of existence are: Red Deer (17 years) and Vancouver (8 years).
