SOUTH CAROLINA 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 2020-21 SCHEDULE December (3-0-2) Jacksonville Icemen vs. South Carolina Stingrays Fri • 11th vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits L, 2-3 OT Fri • 18th @ Jacksonville Icemen W, 2-1 Saturday, April 17 • North Charleston, SC Sat • 19th vs. Jacksonville Icemen W, 5-1 Sat • 26th @ Greenville Swamp Rabbits W, 3-2 SO 2020-21 Team Comparison (ECHL Rank) Sun • 27th vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits L, 2-3 OT Jacksonville South Carolina January (5-3-1) Fri • 1st @ Greenville Swamp Rabbits L, 1-3 GF/G 2.68 (13th) 2.96 (7th) Sat • 2nd @ Jacksonville Icemen W, 3-2 Fri • 8th vs. Wheeling Nailers W, 4-2 Sat • 9th vs. Wheeling Nailers W, 6-3 GA/G 2.93 (8th) 3.27 (13th) Fri • 15th vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits L, 4-5 OT Sat • 16th vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits W, 4-3 SO PP% 12.7% (13th) 16.3% (8th) Fri • 29th @ Florida Everblades W, 5-1 JA CKSONVILLE Sat • 30th @ Florida Everblades L, 1-4 PK% 80.6% (12rd) 84.0% (6th) Sun • 31st @ Orlando Solar Bears L, 1-4 February (2-5-3-2) 20-18-3-3 19-15-7-3 Wed • 3rd vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits W, 2-0 Thu • 4th @ Greenville Swamp Rabbits L, 3-4 OT Stingrays Host Icemen Saturday Night in North Charleston Fri • 5th vs. Jacksonville Icemen L, 1-4 Wed • 10th vs. Florida Everblades L, 2-4 The South Carolina Stingrays will look to get back in the win column Fri • 12th vs. Florida Everblades L, 2-5 Saturday night at the North Charleston Coliseum when they face the Sat • 13th vs. Florida Everblades L, 1-5 Sun • 14th vs. Jacksonville Icemen L, 3-5 Jacksonville Icemen for the 11th time during the 2021 season. SC Fri • 19th @ Jacksonville Icemen L, 2-3 OT is coming off back-to-back losses at the hands of the Orlando Solar Sat • 20th @ Jacksonville Icemen L, 3-4 OT Bears after returning from a road trip to Indy and Wheeling last week. Wed • 24th @ Florida Everblades L, 3-4 SO Fri • 26th @ Florida Everblades L, 5-6 SO Jacksonville has been on a hot streak as of late, winning four games in a Sat • 27th @ Florida Everblades W, 4-3 SO row after sweeping Florida last weekend and defeating Orlando 4-3 in March (7-6-0) overtime on Thursday. The Stingrays and Icemen have split 10 previous Wed • 3rd vs. Jacksonville Icemen W, 2-1 SO meetings this season, with SC earning points in seven of the contests. Fri • 5th vs. Jacksonville Icemen W, 5-3 The two will face off five more times in the final weeks of the 2020-21 Sat • 6th vs. Jacksonville Icemen L, 2-4 Tue • 9th @ Orlando Solar Bears L, 1-4 regular season. The Rays are currently sitting in fifth place in the ECHL’s Wed • 10th @ Florida Everblades L, 2-4 Eastern Conference standings (.533). Jacksonville is just behind SC in sixth Fri • 12th @ Florida Everblades L, 0-4 Fri • 19th vs. Fort Wayne Komets W, 2-1 place with a points percentage of .523. South Carolina ranks sixth in the Sat • 20th vs. Fort Wayne Komets W, 5-1 league on the penalty kill this year, discarding 84% of their opponents’ Sun • 21st vs. Fort Wayne Komets W, 5-2 power play opportunities. The Icemen are eighth in the ECHL defensively, Fri • 26th vs. Orlando Solar Bears L, 3-6 Sat • 27th vs. Orlando Solar Bears W, 6-3 allowing 2.93 goals per game. Sun • 28th vs. Orlando Solar Bears W, 4-3 Wed • 31st vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits L, 3-5 3 Third Period Goals Send Solar Bears Past Rays April (2-2-1-1) The Orlando Solar Bears relinquished an early lead but came from behind Fri • 2nd @ Greenville Swamp Rabbits L, 2-3 SO Sat • 3rd @ Greenville Swamp Rabbits W, 4-3 in the third period and got a hat trick performance from forward Tristin Wed • 7th @ Indy Fuel L, 1-2 OT Langan to defeat the South Carolina Stingrays by a 5-3 score on Friday Fri • 9th @ Wheeling Nailers W, 3-2 SO Wed • 14th vs. Orlando Solar Bears L, 6-7 night at the North Charleston Coliseum. Stingrays’ goaltender Matt Jurusik Fri • 16th vs. Orlando Solar Bears L, 3-5 was busy in the crease all night, turning aside 40 shots, while linemates Sat • 17th vs. Jacksonville Icemen 6:05 p.m. Mark Cooper and Dan DeSalvo each tallied a goal and an assist for South Sun • 18th @ Jacksonville Icemen 3:00 p.m. Wed • 21st vs. Jacksonville Icemen 7:05 p.m. Carolina in the contest. Fri • 23rd vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits 7:05 p.m. Sat • 24th vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits 6:05 p.m. Sun • 25th @ Greenville Swamp Rabbits 3:05 p.m. Fri • 30th @ Orlando Solar Bears 7:00 p.m. May Sat • 1st @ Orlando Solar Bears 7:00 p.m. 2020-21 ECHL Eastern Conference Standings Sun • 2nd @ Orlando Solar Bears 3:00 p.m. Wed • 5th @ Florida Everblades 7:30 p.m. GP W L OTL SOL PTS PCT GF GA Fri • 7th @ Florida Everblades 7:30 p.m. Sat • 8th @ Florida Everblades 7:00 p.m. Tue • 11th vs. Indy Fuel 7:05 p.m. Florida Everblades 50 33 15 0 2 68 0.680 176 130 Wed • 12th vs. Indy Fuel 7:05 p.m. Fri • 14th @ Jacksonville Icemen 7:00 p.m. Indy Fuel 47 27 16 4 0 58 0.617 139 132 Sat • 15th @ Jacksonville Icemen 7:00 p.m. Wed • 19th @ Orlando Solar Bears 7:00 p.m. Orlando Solar Bears 49 26 18 4 1 57 0.582 148 151 Fri • 21st @ Orlando Solar Bears 7:00 p.m. Sat • 22nd @ Orlando Solar Bears 7:00 p.m. Greenville Swamp Rabbits 49 22 15 9 3 56 0.571 143 151 Wed • 26th vs. Greenville Swamp Rabbits 7:05 p.m. Fri • 28th vs. Wheeling Nailers 7:05 p.m. Sat • 29th vs. Wheeling Nailers 6:05 p.m. South Carolina Stingrays 45 19 16 7 3 48 0.533 133 147 June Jacksonville Icemen 44 20 18 3 3 46 0.523 118 129 J A C K S O N V I L L E Tue • 1st vs. Wheeling Nailers 7:05 p.m. Thu • 3rd @ Orlando Solar Bears 7:00 p.m. Wheeling Nailers 45 15 24 5 1 36 0.400 133 157 Sat • 5th vs. Jacksonville Icemen 6:05 p.m. SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS HOCKEY SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS HOCKEY Scouting The Icemen Through 44 games, Jacksonville is in sixth place in the Eastern INSIDE THE SERIES JA CKSONVILLE Conference standings with a record of 20-18-3-3 (.523). Forward Record vs. JAX ........... 19-15-2-0 First meeting Ara Nazarian leads the club in goals (12) and points (32), while Last 10 vs. JAX ................ 5-3-2-0 ...............Oct. 21, 2017 (W, 3-2) suiting up in all of the team’s contests this season. Just behind Streak vs. JAX ..............Lost One him is Nick Saracino who has 31 points in 36 games on 10 goals Blair vs. JAX ..................... 5-3-2-0 Last meeting and 21 assists. Forwards Pascal Aquin and Mike Szmatula each .................. Mar. 6, 2021 (L, 2-4) have 11 tallies, while rookie attacker Derek Lodermeier has nine goals and 14 points. Team captain Wacey Rabbit has registered 18 points in 31 games on four goals and 14 helpers. Defender SITUATIONAL RECORDS Trevor Hamilton leads the team’s blueliners with 19 points (2g, 2019-20 2020-21 17a). In net, Charles Williams has played 17 games and has a Overall Record 44-14-3-1 19-16-7-3 goals-against average of 2.73. vs. South Division 38-11-3-1 13-16-6-3 vs. North Division 4-1-0-0 0-0-0-0 All-Time History vs. Jacksonville vs. Central Division 1-0-0-0 6-0-1-0 Saturday’s contest is the 11th matchup of the 2020-21 season vs. Mountain Division 1-2-0-0 0-0-0-0 between South Carolina and Jacksonville and the 37th meeting Home record 19-9-0-0 12-10-3-0 overall since the Icemen began play in the South Division during Road record 25-5-3-1 7-6-4-3 the 2017-18 season. After seeing each other 10 times in each of Overtime 4-3 0-7 Jacksonville’s first two campaigns, the rivals faced-off six times Shootout 2-1 5-3 during the COVID-19 shortened 2019-20 year. The Stingrays were victorious in five of the six matchups before the final two Scoring First 30-4-2-0 13-4-4-0 meetings were canceled. SC has the edge in the all-time series, Opponent scores first 14-10-1-1 6-12-3-3 holding a record of 19-15-2. Leading after one period 21-3-1-0 9-4-0-0 Behind after one period 8-6-0-1 3-9-2-3 Ully Continues Offensive Onslaught Tied after one period 15-5-2-0 7-3-5-0 Forward Cole Ully hit the 40-point mark for the fourth straight Leading after two periods 30-1-2-1 10-1-1-0 season during Wednesday night’s back and forth contest, posting a Behind after two periods 2-10-0-0 3-14-2-3 goal and an assist.