OKC Barons vs Peoria Rivermen 1/8/2011

[Brett]

Mostly a copy and paste of game notes plus the ugliness from last night.

78 total PIM's from Friday nights game. Peoria won 5-2. 4 fights including an almost line brawl.

Game notes:


OKC Barons record: 18-15-1-4, 41 points, 10th in Western Conference
Peoria Rivermen record: 24-10-2-1, 51 points, 1st in Western Conference
Barons sign Bryan Helmer. Played Friday should see him again Saturday

Team Stats


OKC Barons Power Play: 13th at 17.9%
Peoria Rivermen Power Play: 4th at 21.7%
OKC Barons Penalty Kill: 3rd at 86.7%
Peoria Rivermen Penalty Kill: 2nd at 87.8%
OKC Barons 3rd in West with 122 goals scored
Rivermen 1st in West and AHL with 83 goals allowed
Rivermen 2nd in West in PIM's with 818. OKC has 688.

Team Leaders - OKC Barons:


Alexandre Giroux 6th in AHL scoring with 36 points (13 goals, 23 assists)
Barons other top 2 scorers Linus Omark and Liam Reddox are now in Edmonton.
Colin McDonald leads team with 18 goals. 5th in AHL goals.
Bran Moran is 2nd in team scoring with 30 points (11 goals, 19 assists)


Team Leaders - Peoria Rivermen:


Rivermen goalies Jake Allen and Ben Bishop are among the top 10 in almost every goaltending statistic.
No Rivermen in top 20 in AHL scoring
Rivermen has 5 players with at least 50 PIM this season

[blane44]

Peoria fights, but they back it up with winning. The Barons shouldn't be caught by surprise tonight. They are dropping too many division games.

[Brett]

Peoria fights, but they back it up with winning. The Barons shouldn't be caught by surprise tonight. They are dropping too many division games.

Yep, exactly. Mink is their leading scorer now, and I think he almost has the most PIM's also.

Welcome by the way.

[Rhino]

At the end of the third period last night, It seems like we cracked the nut of the Peoria defense. Long cross-ice passes were effective, as well as driving to the net to pick up the garbage. I would not be surprised to see the score settled at the opening face off tonight, then a close, fast, clean, physical game after.

[Brett]

Well tough loss. Still get a point - but still a tough one

I think the Barons still played better than last night but still some boneheaded mistakes. 3rd and 4th chances going in...

No payback for Reaves which really didn't surprise me much. I'm sure he was asked to fight a bunch of times and declined (which is smart). He was trying to get a Baron to jump him and take an instigator.

[codyyount64]

Pretty good game tonight. I was impressed compared to last night. That Reeves really has no sportsmanship though, he acted like a ass tonight too! But I liked the chant "reeves you suck" haha........ talked to Ben for a sec. at the signing. I asked him how he liked Reeves? Ben said "I hate that guy!......But we play them quit a few more times and we will get him"

[blane44]

Barons have to figure out how to hold leads. I'm curious how many points they've lost this season because of leads lost in the last five minutes of regulation. These guys are doing horrible against their own division....

[Brett]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yujCyhiy4lo