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Four Time Clark Cup Champions - 23 NHL Alumni G A M E I N F O R M A T I O N Broadcast: 940AM/104.5FM bucshockey.com Contact Scott Montesano office: 515-278-2827 ext 7027 // cell: 315-292-0064 // [email protected] // @scottmontesano Des Moines Buccaneers Tuesday October 14, 2014 Omaha Lancers 3-0-1; 7 PTS 7:05pm 1-3-1; 3 PTS Ralston Arena Ralton, NE AT A GLANCE 35th Anniversary Season Break out the coral, jade and Winning when Scoring The Buccaneers were 8-3 last emerald as the Des Moines Buccaneers celebrate their season in games in which Tanner Karty scored a goal. 35th anniversary season. Only the Sioux City Musketeers Multiple Point Games Tanner Karty (8) led the team last Place in Western Conference: T2 and Waterloo Blackhawks are older having played in the season in multi-point games. loop’s entire 36 junior seasons and going back even Karty Back for More Tanner Karty is in his fourth Points Back/Ahead: -1 further as pro franchises. season with the Buccaneers. The Oklahoma City native Most Points Ahead for First: 0 Best Winning Percentage With a winning percentage committed to Division I Lake Superior State during the off of .875% the Buccaneers have the USHL’s best winning Most Points Behind for First: -1 -season. percentage so far. In 146 career games he has 73pts (35g, 38a). High Water Mark: 3-0-1 (+2) A victory on Tuesday would give the Bucs #1 overall The Bucs would need to make the playoffs for Karty to Low Water Mark: 0-0-0 seed in points. have a shot at the franchise’s all-time games played mark On a Streak The Buccaneers have opened the season of 205 which is held by Peter Fregoe Current Streak: P4 on a fourgame point streak (3-0-1) which is the team’s Playoff Format Stays Set The USHL’s postseason Longest Win Streak: 2 best since starting the 2006-2007 season with seven format remains unchanged with the top four teams in Longest Point Streak: 3-0-1 (4) consecutive wins. each conference advancing to the playoffs. The 2010-2011 team opened that season 7-1-2. One modification comes to the tiebreakers as the first Longest Losing Streak: 0 Moving Above .500% A win on Tuesday would put the tiebreaker for seeding is now determined by the team Longest Winless Streak: 0-0-0 Buccaneers’ plus-three over .500% for the first time since with the most regulation + overtime victories. This slightly Home Streak: 2-0-1 midway through the 2010-2011 season. decreases the value of shootout wins, though they still Since 2007-2008, the best record the Bucs have had at result in the full two standings points. Road Streak: 1-0-0 any single point was +7 (20-11-2) at the end of January Steady in Net Ryan Ruck returns for his second season Home: 2-0-1 2011. in Des Moines. The Northeastern recruit had 30 total Limiting Chances The Buccaneers have held their Away 1-0-0 appearances last season and allowed three goals or less opponents to less than 30 shots on goal in three of the in 20 of them. Scoring First: 2-0-0 four games. The lone exception was Oct. 3rd at Omaha. He finished the season with a 2.99 GAA and .918 save Score in 1st Period: 2-0-0 Finishing Well Through the first four games, the Bucs percentage, the highest save percentage for a Bucs’ have outscored their opponents 7-1 in the third period. goalie since Matt Carney’s .921% in 1998-1999. Score in 2nd Period: 3-0-0 Tanner Karty is a +4 rating in the third period. First Round Pick Last week the Bucs executed a trade Score in 3rd Period: 3-0-1 Starting Off Right The Buccaneers’ 4-0 win over Fargo with Cedar Rapids in which the Bucs sent draft picks in Outshooting Opponent: 2-0-1 on Sept. 27th gives the team it’s first opening night win exchange for forwards Brennan Sanford and Georgi since the 2009-2010 season and their first home opener Gorodetsky who was the 12 overall pick last May in the Shots Tied: 0-0-0 win since 2008-2009. Phase II draft. Outshot by Opponent: 1-0-0 Clean Sheets Goalies Ryland Pashovitz and Ryan Ruck Over the last three midget seasons, in 138 games he Take less than 30 shots 1-0-0 each has a shutout on the season. registered 212 points Nearing Milestone Victory The Buccaneers hope to hit Home Sweet Home If the Bucs are to be successful this Take more than 30 shots: 2-0-1 a milestone this season as they enter the weekend with season, turning Buccaneer Arena back into a home ice Allow less than 30 shots: 2-0-1 881 all-time regular season victories. advantage is a must. Since making the playoffs in 2006- New Sherriff in Town On June 2, the Buccaneers 2007, the Bucs have gone 88-106-21 (.456%) at home, Leading After One: 1-0-0 introduced Dave Allison as the team’s 14th head coach in averaging 12 wins a season. Tied After One: 2-0-0 team history. The longtime hockey head coach has The Bucs were 10-17-3 at home last season. Trailing After One: 0-0-1 experience from Junior A all the way to the NHL, Pro Bloodlines Forward Tyler Drevitch’s father and including serving three seasons behind the bench for the uncle both played pro hockey and his dad actually played Leading After Two: 3-0-0 AHL’s former Iowa Stars from 2005-2008. under Dave Allison in in the ECHL. Tied After Two: 0-0-0 Allison played 10 pro seasons and appeared in three Sizing up the Bucs Going into opening night the Bucs Trailing After Two: 0-0-1 games with the Montreal Canadians in 1983-1984. He size up an average of 6’0, 185 pounds and 18.8 yrs old. broke into coaching as a player-assistant with Muskegon The Bucs ended last season at an average of 6’1, 174 Overtime: 0-0-0 of the International Hockey League in 1986-1987 and his pounds and 17.8 yrs old. By comparison, the Clark Cup Shootouts: 0-0-1 first head job came in 1989-1990 with the ECHL’s Champion Indiana Ice were 6’2, 190 and 18.5 years old. One-Goal Games: 0-0-1 Virginia Lancers New Assistant Coach Along with a new head coach, In 1995-1996, he had a stint as the interim head coach the Buccaneers welcome Nate Weossner as the team’s Two-Goal Games: 0-0-0 for the Ottawa Senators after being the head coach for new assistant coach. The Minnesota native spent the last Games After a Win: 1-0-1 the team’s AHL affiliate. two seasons working in California with the San Jose Along with pro experience, he was a head coach in the Sharks midget program. Before that he was an assistant Games After a Loss: 1-0-0 Ontario Hockey League from 1992-1994 and in the with Concordia College in Moorhead, MN East Conference: 0-0-0 Superior International League from 2002-2005. Prior to entering coaching, Nate played under Dave West Conference: 3-0-1 Combined his head coaching record, coming into this Allison with the Boderland Thunder of the Superior season, is 573-485-114 (.538%). International Junior League in 2003-2004. Games has at least two fights: 1-0-0 Des Moines Buccaneers (3-0-1; 7 PTS) Omaha Lancers (1-3-1; 3 PTS) # P Name Stats # P Name Stats 1 G Ryan Ruck 2-0-0 1.00 .969% 1 G Hayden Hawkey 1-3-1 4.08 .855% 35 G Ryland Pashovitz 1-0-1 0.48 .978% 35 G Kris Oldham 0-0-0 6.00 .765% 2 D Corey Schueneman 0-2-2 2 D Ben DiMaio 0-0-0 3 D Alec Rauhauser 2-2-4 3 D Nash Worden 0-0-0 5 F Patrik Koch (kah-shh) 2-2-4 5 D Jake Gingell 0-0-0 7 F Patrick Grasso 0-1-1 6 D Brendan Smith 0-2-2 8 F Joe Widmar 1-3-4 9 F Zach Jordan 0-0-0 10 F Troy Conzo 0-0-0 10 F Jake Henderson 1-0-1 11 F Miha Zajc (zike) 1-0-1 11 F Louie Rowe 0-1-1 12 D Nick Wolff 0-3-3 12 F Josh French 0-1-1 14 F Georgy Gorodetsky 1-0-1 13 D Bradley Johnson 0-1-1 15 F Ryan Dmowski 2-1-3 14 D Michael Bigelbach 0-0-0 16 F Tanner Karty 4-1-5 17 D Niklas Folin 0-3-3 17 F Nikita Pavlychev 0-1-1 18 F Anthony Angello 1-1-2 18 F Quin Foreman 0-0-0 19 F Brian Williams 0-1-1 19 F Tyler Drevitch (drev-itch) 0-0-0 21 F Ryan Tait 0-0-0 21 D Chris Allemon (alley-mon) 0-0-0 22 D Jimmy Schuldt 2-1-3 22 F Ara Nazarian 2-1-3 23 F Nick Rivera 0-0-0 23 F Brennan Sanford 0-3-3 25 F Steven Spinner 1-1-2 24 F Mark Petaccio (pet-ah-see-oh) 0-2-2 26 F Jacob Forsbacka-Karlsson 0-1-1 25 D Chandler Lindstrand 0-0-0 27 F Michael Wilson 0-0-0 26 D Zak Galambos (galam-bis) 0-0-0 29 F Hank Crone 0-0-0 27 D Grant Hutton 0-0-0 61 F Shane Gersich 3-1-4 Head Coach: Dave Allison Head Coach: Brian Kaufman Assistant: Nate Weossner Assistant GM: Rick Comley Trainer: Colin Whitte Assistants: Chris Michael Equipment: Justin Sturtz John Faulkner Media: Scott Montesano Trainer/Equipment: Bill Nervig Media: Rob Lippolis PP: 17.4% (10) PK: 93.3% (1) Current Streak: Points 4 (3-0-1) PP: 11.5% (15) PK: 83.9% (8) Home: 2-0-1 Current Streak: Win 1 Road: 1-0-0 Home: 0-1-1 Scoring First: 3-0-0 Road: 1-2-0 Leading after 2: 3-0-0 Scoring First: 0-0-0 Tied after 2: 0-0-0 Leading after 2: 0-0-0 Trailing after 2 0-0-1 Tied after 2: 1-0-1 OT: 0-0 Trailing after 2 0-2-0 SO: 0-1 OT: 0-1 SO: 0-0 Referee: Jonathan Sitarski & Ryan Monahan Linesmen: William Hancock & Trevor Atkinson USHL Western Conference USHL Eastern Conference October 14th Schedule (central) GP W L OTL PTS GP W L OTL PTS Fargo 5 4 1 0 8 Muskegon 7 4 3 0 8 Des Moines @ Omaha 7:05pm Des Moines 4 3 0 1 7 Bloomington 5 3 1 1 7 Sioux City 5 3 1 1 7 Cedar Rapids 4 3 1 0 6 Tri-City 5 3 2 0 6 Youngtown 5 3 2 0 6 Waterloo 5 3 2 0 6 Chicago 5 2 2 1 5 Lincoln 5 2 3 0 4 Dubuque 4 2 2 0 4 Sioux Falls 5 1 3 1 3 Team USA 5 2 3 0 4 Omaha 5 1 3 1 3 Green Bay 4 2 2 0 4 Madison 4 0 2 2 2 Series History S C O U T I N G T H E OMAHA LANCERS Open the season going winless in their first four-games (0-3-1) before winning 2-1 at Cedar Rapids on Saturday.