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STINGRAYS HOCKEY 3300 W. Montague Ave. Suite A-200 - North Charleston, SC 29418 Jared Shafran, Director of Media Relations and Broadcasting | [email protected] | (843) 744-2248 ext. 1203 2019-20 SCHEDULE October (5-1) Sat • 12th @ Orlando Solar Bears W, 4-2 Norfolk Admirals vs. Fri • 18th @ W, 5-3 Sat • 19th vs. Orlando Solar Bears W, 4-2 Saturday, November 16 • North Charleston, SC Wed • 23rd @ Norfolk Admirals L, 2-5 Fri • 25th @ Norfolk Admirals W, 4-3 OT 2019-20 Team Comparison (ECHL Rank) Sat • 26th @ Norfolk Admirals W, 3-0 Norfolk South Carolina November Sun • 3rd @ Orlando Solar Bears W, 8-2 GF/G 2.07 (26th) 4.10 (3rd) Fri • 8th @ W, 4-0 Sat • 9th @ Greenville Swamp Rabbits W, 3-2 SO Fri • 15th vs. W, 4-3 GA/G 3.93 (23rd) 2.20 (1st) Sat • 16th vs. Norfolk Admirals 6:05 p.m. Sun • 17th vs. Norfolk Admirals 3:05 p.m. PP% 25.0% (4th) 15.0% (18th) Tue • 19th vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits 7:05 p.m. Fri • 22th @ 7:30 p.m. PK% 84.1% (9th) 84.2% (8th) Sat • 23rd @ Florida Everblades 7:00 p.m. Sat • 30th @ Orlando Solar Bears 7:00 p.m. 2-9-3-0 9-1-0-0 December Mon • 2nd @ Orlando Solar Bears 7:00 p.m. Stingrays Host Admirals On Hockey Fights Cancer Night Saturday Wed • 4th @ Atlanta Gladiators 7:05 p.m. Fri • 6th @ Florida Everblades 7:00 p.m. Fresh off their sixth straight victory in dramatic fashion on Friday night, Sat • 7th @ Florida Everblades 7:00 p.m. the South Carolina Stingrays host the Norfolk Admirals on Saturday at Tue • 10th vs. Orlando Solar Bears 7:05 p.m. Fri • 13th @ Norfolk Admirals 7:35 p.m. the North Charleston Coliseum for Hockey Fights Cancer Night. The Rays Sat • 14th vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits 6:05 p.m. are currently the hottest team in the ECHL, tied for the lead in the South Sun • 15th vs. 3:05 p.m. Division with the Florida Everblades and sporting the highest winning Fri • 20th vs. Orlando Solar Bears 7:05 p.m. Sat • 21th @ Jacksonville Icemen 7:00 p.m. percentage in the league at 0.900. Last weekend SC swept the Greenville Thu • 26th @ Atlanta Gladiators 7:05 p.m. Swamp Rabbits with a 4-0 on Friday night by Parker Fri • 27th @ Atlanta Gladiators 7:35 p.m. Milner and a 3-2 shootout win on Saturday night. Norfolk has a record of Sat • 28th vs. Orlando Solar Bears 6:05 p.m. 2-9-3-0 through 14 games and are currently in seventh place in the South January Division. South Carolina is the top defensive team in the league, allowing Fri • 3rd vs. Florida Everblades 7:05 p.m. Sat • 4th vs. Florida Everblades 6:05 p.m. just 2.20 goals per game. The Rays are also third-best offensively, scoring Sun • 5th vs. Atlanta Gladiators 3:05 p.m. 4.10 times per contest. The Admirals have converted 25% of the time on Tue • 7th vs. Atlanta Gladiators 7:05 p.m. Fri • 10th vs. 7:05 p.m. the power play this year, which is 4th in the ECHL. Sat • 11th vs. Florida Everblades 6:05 p.m. Sun • 12th @ Greenville Swamp Rabbits 3:00 p.m. Wed • 15th @ Jacksonville Icemen 7:00 p.m. Fri • 17th vs. Jacksonville Icemen 7:05 p.m. Klimek Strikes Late To Give Rays 4-3 Win Over Indy Sat • 18th vs. Atlanta Gladiators 6:05 p.m. Sun • 19th vs. Orlando Solar Bears 3:05 p.m. Jordan Klimek scored his first of the season with just 1:17 left to push Fri • 24th @ Norfolk Admirals 7:35 p.m. the South Carolina Stingrays past the Indy Fuel by a final score of 4-3 on Sat • 25th @ Norfolk Admirals 7:35 p.m. Friday night at the North Charleston Coliseum. Klimek finished with a goal Wed • 29th @ Greenville Swamp Rabbits 7:05 p.m. Fri • 31st vs. Norfolk Admirals 7:05 p.m. and an assist in the game, while his defensive partner Kristofers Bindulis February also tallied a goal and an assist and Andrew Cherniwchan added Sat •1st vs. Florida Everblades 6:05 p.m. two helpers. Goaltender earned the win for South Thu • 6th @ Orlando Solar Bears 7:00 p.m. Carolina with 27 saves in the contest. Both teams were unsuccessful on Fri • 7th @ Orlando Solar Bears 7:00 p.m. the power play, each coming up empty on three chances. South Carolina Sun • 9th vs. Jacksonville Icemen 3:05 p.m. Wed • 12th @ Norfolk Admirals 7:35 p.m. outshot Indy 42-30 in the game, including an 18-9 advantage in the third Fri • 14th vs. 7:05 p.m. period. Sat • 15th vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits 6:05 p.m. Sun • 16th @ Jacksonville Icemen 3:00 p.m. Tue • 18th vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits 7:05 p.m. 2019-20 ECHL South Division Standings Sat • 22nd vs. Atlanta Gladiators 6:05 p.m. Sun • 23rd vs. 3:05 p.m. Wed • 26th vs. Atlanta Gladiators 10:30 a.m. GP W L OTL SOL PTS PCT GF GA Sat • 29th @ Worcester Railers 7:05 p.m. South Carolina Stingrays 10 9 1 0 0 18 0.900 41 22 March Sun • 1st @ Maine Mariners 3:00 p.m. Florida Everblades 13 9 4 0 0 18 0.692 43 33 Wed • 4th @ 9:10 p.m. Fri • 6th @ Idaho Steelheads 9:10 p.m. Sat • 7th @ Idaho Steelheads 9:10 p.m. Greenville Swamp Rabbits 14 7 6 0 1 15 0.536 57 53 Wed • 11th @ Orlando Solar Bears 7:00 p.m. Sat • 14th @ Jacksonville Icemen 7:00 p.m. Atlanta Gladiators 11 5 6 0 0 10 0.455 45 52 Sun • 15th vs. Jacksonville Icemen 3:05 p.m. Tue • 17th vs. Atlanta Gladiators 7:05 p.m. Jacksonville Icemen 11 3 6 2 0 8 0.364 35 47 Sat • 21st vs. 6:05 p.m. J A C K S O N V I L L E Sun • 22nd vs. Norfolk Admirals 3:05 p.m. Orlando Solar Bears 12 3 7 1 1 8 0.333 26 40 Tue • 24th vs. Cincinnati Cyclones 7:05 p.m. Fri • 27th vs. Norfolk Admirals 7:05 p.m. Sat • 28th vs. Florida Everblades 6:05 p.m. Norfolk Admirals 14 2 9 3 0 7 0.250 29 55 Sun • 29th vs. Florida Everblades 3:05 p.m. April Wed • 1st @ Greenville Swamp Rabbits 7:05 p.m. SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS HOCKEY SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS HOCKEY

Scouting The Admirals Norfolk is looking to rebound in 2019-20 after a sixth place finish INSIDE THE SERIES in the ECHL’s South Division in 2018-19 with a record of 27-36-6-3 Record vs. NOR...... 26-22-1-3 First meeting and 63 points. Philippe Hudon, who had five points in the Last 10 vs. NOR...... 4-6-0-0 ...... Nov. 8, 2015 (W, 3-1) three previous games against SC in October, is leading the club Streak vs. NOR...... Won Two with nine points (4g, 5a) in 14 games. Roman Ammirato, acquired Bergin vs. NOR...... 2-1-0-0 Last meeting in a trade with Greenville, has five assists in his first six games ...... Oct. 26, 2019 (W, 3-0) with the Ads and 10 points total on the year. Returning forward Alex Rodriguez has seven points on four goals and three assists. Defender Johnny Coughlin leads the team’s blueliners with six SITUATIONAL RECORDS points (3g, 3a). In net, has started nine games, 2018-19 2019-20 posting a 0.906 percentage, while second-year backstop Alex Overall Record 35-31-5-1 9-1-0-0 Sakellaropoulos has played in four contests. vs. South Division 27-28-4-1 8-1-0-0 vs. North Division 3-1-1-0 0-0-0-0 All-Time History vs. Norfolk vs. Central Division 0-1-0-0 1-0-0-0 South Carolina has an all-time record of 27-22-1-3 against the vs. Mountain Division 5-1-0-0 0-0-0-0 Admirals dating back to the beginning of the 2015-16 season. The Home record 17-17-2-0 2-0-0-0 Rays went 6-1-1 against Norfolk in eight meetings during 2017-18, Road record 18-14-3-1 7-1-0-0 but were just 2-6-0 against the Ads last year in 2018-19. This season 4-5 1-0 the two teams will see each other for 12 games, which is tied with Shootout 1-1 1-0 Orlando for the Stingrays’ most common opponent on their 2019- 20 slate. The Rays won two of the first three meetings between the Scoring First 22-10-2-1 8-1-0-0 two last month in Norfolk. Opponent scores first 13-21-3-0 1-0-0-0 Leading after one period 19-5-0-1 5-0-0-0 Klimek Makes It Count Behind after one period 6-18-2-0 0-0-0-0 Defenseman Jordan Klimek scored his first goal in an SC sweater on Tied after one period 10-8-3-0 4-1-0-0 Friday night, knocking in a rebound with just 1:17 remaining in the Leading after two periods 25-2-0-1 6-0-0-0 game to propel the Rays to a 4-3 victory over the Indy Fuel. Klimek Behind after two periods 2-19-3-0 0-1-0-0 had his biggest night of the season thus far, assisting on a goal by Tied after two periods 8-10-2-0 3-0-0-0 Kristofers Bindulis in the second period and finishing the game with Scoring on the PP 20-11-2-0 4-0-0-0 a +3 rating. The Northern Michigan University alum has totaled Scoreless on the PP 15-20-3-1 5-1-0-0 three points in thee games this year with a +4 rating. Allowing a PPG 14-17-2-0 2-1-0-0 Opponent Scoreless on the PP 21-14-3-1 7-0-0-0 Thompson Tallies Another Win Rookie goaltender Logan Thompson earned his fourth win of the One-Goal Games 16-10-5-1 3-0-0-0 season in the victory over Indy on Friday night with 27 saves. The Two-Goal Games 10-12-0-0 3-0-0-0 native of , Alberta is 4-1-0 on the season in 307 minutes OT/Shootout Games 5-0-5-1 2-0-0-0 of action. Thompson has a goals-against average of 2.74 through his first five outings of the year. The netminder, who is on an AHL More Penalties than Opponent 11-9-2-1 3-1-0-0 contract with the , has a career ECHL Less Penalties than Opponent 19-17-2-0 4-0-0-0 of 0.909 in 13 games with the Rays and Adirondack Thunder. Same Amount of Penalties as Opp. 5-5-1-0 2-0-0-0

Bindulis’ Big Night Scored three goals 6-8-1-1 2-0-0-0 Defenseman Kristofers Bindulis scored his second goal of the Scored four goals 10-3-0-0 5-0-0-0 season during the second period of Friday’s 4-3 win over Indy, Scored five or more goals 13-0-1-0 2-0-0-0 which was part of a multi-point outing that included an assist on Held to two goals or fewer 6-20-3-0 0-1-0-0 Mitch Vanderlaan’s strike. Bindulis also finished with a +3 rating in the game. The blueliner’s tally was his second in the last three Outshooting Opponent 16-17-0-0 8-1-0-0 games after also scoring last Friday night in a win at Greenville. Outshot by Opponent 19-14-5-1 0-0-0-0 The native of Riga, Latvia is in his third professional season out of Shots are Even 0-0-0-0 1-0-0-0 Lake Superior State University, playing on an NHL contract with the . While Bindulis missed most of 2018-19 with Following a win 19-12-2-1 7-1-0-0 an injury, he has played in all 10 games for SC this season and has a Following a loss 16-18-3-0 1-0-0-0 +7 rating and 13 shots on goal.

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Milner Recalled To Hershey SOUTH CAROLINA IN BRIEF The Hershey Bears announced the recall of goaltender Friday. The 29-year-old netminder joins Hershey after a stellar TEAM INFORMATION start to the 2019-20 season in which he currently leads the ECHL Location...... North Charleston, S.C. with a goals-against average of 1.38. Milner has a record of 5-0-0 Nickname...... Stingrays this season with the Stingrays and was recently named the ECHL’s Colors...... Blue and Red Goaltender of the Week on Oct. 29 after a stretch of back-to-back Home Rink...... North Charleston Coliseum games with a shutout, a 1.44 goals-against and a save percentage of Capacity...... 7,250 0.930. He re-signed with Hershey for the fourth consecutive season League...... ECHL for 2019-20. The former ECHL Goaltender of the Year has played in President...... Rob Concannon 14 games with the Bears over the past two seasons, posting a 6-7-1 record. HOCKEY STAFF Head Coach...... Steve Bergin Bailey Signs PTO With AHL’s Assistant Coach...... Ryan Blair The Stingrays announced that forward signed a Athletic Trainer...... Rick Covard professional tryout agreement with the AHL’s Charlotte Checkers Equipment Manager...... Cameron Parker Tuesday. The 27-year-old attacker appeared in nine games with South Carolina this season, totaling 11 points on eight goals and three assists. Bailey was among the ECHL’s league leaders in many FRANCHISE HISTORY categories including goals scored (6th), plus-minus (+10, 3rd) and First Season...... 1993 shots on goal (52, 3rd). The Anchorage, Alaska native also registered Total Seasons...... 27 points in all of South Carolina’s eight road games before earning an Overall Record...... 1,051-609-71-132 opportunity in the AHL, where he registered a point on a power play Winning Seasons...... 26 goal in the first period of his first game on Friday. Regular Season Titles...... 1, 1996-97 Division Championships...... 6 Cups In The Air, Everybody Let’s Take Shots Conference Championships...... 5 Through their first 10 games of the 2019-20 season, the Stingrays Kelly Cups...... 3 lead all ECHL teams on a per game basis in both shots for and against. Their average of 39.6 shots on goal per game is two ahead HOCKEY INFORMATION of Tulsa, who has averaged 37.8 in 16 contests. On the defensive 2018-19 Overall Record...... 35-31-5-1 side, SC is averaging two less shots allowed (24.5) than the next 2018-19 vs. South...... 27-28-4-1 closest team, the Florida Everblades (26.6). Returning Players...... 7 Newcomers...... 18 Rays Cap Perfect Weekend With Thrilling Shootout Win Andrew Cherniwchan scored the only goal in a 5-round shootout COMMUNICATIONS to give the South Carolina Stingrays a 3-2 defeat of the Greenville Address...... 3300 W. Montague Ave. Swamp Rabbits and their fifth straight win overall on Saturday Contact...... Jared Shafran night at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena. Logan Thompson got the start and made a season-high 31 saves before stopping all five of Email...... [email protected] Greenville’s shootout attempts to earn the victory for the Stingrays. Office Phone...... 843-744-2248 Defender Tom Parisi led the way with a goal and an assist for South Rays Facebook...... /SCStingraysHockey Carolina, while Casey Bailey scored his team-leading eighth goal Rays ...... @SCStingrays of the season. After the first nine skaters came up empty to begin Rays Instagram...... @scstingrayshockey the shootout, Cherniwchan beat Bednard with a wrist over the in the bottom of the fifth round to secure the victory. Milner Shines Again With Second Straight Shutout Despite not playing in any game action over 13 days, goaltender MEDIA INFORMATION Parker Milner managed to get the same result as his last appearance on Oct. 26 when he shut down the Norfolk Admirals Watch:...... ECHL.TV last Friday night. A 23-save blanking of the Greenville Swamp Listen:...... Mixlr Play-by-Play: Jared Shafran | Color: Andrew Miller Rabbits gave Milner his second consecutive shutout in a 4-0 win for the Stingrays at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena. South Carolina got Live Stats Link:...... bit.ly/ECHLlive goals from four different skaters in their fourth straight victory with In-game Updates:...... @SCStingrays Kristofers Bindulis, Casey Bailey, Matthew Weis and Tom Parisi all posting tallies.

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