NEW ENGLAND vs Halifax GAME NOTES Game 10 Black Wolves vs THUNDERBIRDS QUICK FACTS Mar. 1 2020 • 5pm • UNncasville CT • Mohegan Sun TEAM INFORMATION 2019 Record ................................................ 9-9 Last Matchup: Home ..................................................................7-2 First all-time matchup since 2019 NLL Expansion Away .................................................................2-7 Eastern Div. Finish ...............................4th Playoffs ........................................................0-1 TEAM BREAKDOWN Team ......................................................................... Forwards ........................................................10 NEW ENGLAND Halifax Transition .......................................................2 Record 6-3, 3-2 7-2, 3-1 Shots 684 718 Defense ................................................................7 Goals 110 109 Goalkeepers .....................................................2 Assists 166 163 Practice Players ........................................ 4 Points 276 272 SOG 505 493 ARENA INFORMATION Loose Balls 768 749 Home Field ..............Mohegan Sun Arena Caused TO 77 62 Capacity ...................................................7,500 Faceoffs 139-231 180-233 Surface ..........................................Field Turf Games Played 9 9 PUBLIC RELATIONS SCHEDULE | RESULTS ...................................................Annette Hogan Office Phone ..................... 860-862-4087 Dec. 7 Toronto Rock W, 12-8 Cell Phone ........................... 845-807-6185 [email protected] Dec. 14 Saskatchewan Rush W, 12-8 Website............www.blackwolves.com Dec. 27 New York Riptide W, 21-11 Mailing Address: New England Black Wolves 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd. Jan. 18 Philadelphia Wings W, 8-7OT Uncasville, CT 06382 Jan. 26 Georgia Swarm L, 11-10OT NEW ENGLAND STAFF Feb. 1 Vancouver Warriors L, 10-6 GM-Head Coach.......................Glenn Clark Assistant Coach.............Clem D’Orazio Feb. 16 Philadelphia Wings L, 14-11 Assistant Coach...........Darryl Gibson Equipment Manager...........Mike Kettle Feb. 22 Rochester Knighthawks W, 18-7 Athletic Trainer......Rosemary Ragle Athletic Trainer......Kevin Montgomery Feb. 28 New York Riptide W, 12-8 VP of Sports..............................Amber Cox Sales & Service Manager..........Jen Fusci Mar. 1 Halifax Thunderbirds 5:00 PM Public Relations..........Annette Hogan Marketing Coordinator.......Robyn Brown Mar. 7 Philadelphia Wings 1:00 PM Game Ops Manager.......................Kip Helt Mar. 14 Buffalo Bandits 7:00 PM social media Instagram ..................@neblackwolves Mar. 15 Calgary Roughnecks 3:00 PM Twitter ........................@NEBlackWolves Facebook................................................................ Mar. 20 San Diego Seals 10:00 PM ....facebook.com/NewEnglandBlackWolves Mar. 27 Georgia Swarm 7:30 PM Apr. 4 Colorado Mammoth 9:30 PM Apr. 11 New York Riptide 7:30 PM Apr. 18 Georgia Swarm 7:00 PM HOME AWAY NEW ENGLAND vs Halifax GAME NOTES Game Information THE NEW ENGLAND-Halifax MATCHUP GAME INFO: THE NEW ENGLAND BLACK WOLVES WILL LOOK TO GRAB THEIR THIRD ALL-TIME SERIES WIN OVER A NORTH DIVISION OPPONENT ON SUNDAY, MAR. 1 AGAINST THE HALIFAX THUNDERBIRDS. FACEOFF IS SET FOR 5PM AT MOHEGAN SUN ARENA ON FACEOFF Overall: 0-0 AGAINST CANCER NIGHT. HOME: 0-0 NEW ENGLAND HEADS INTO SUNDAY AFTER DEFEATING THE NEW YORK RIPTIDE, ROAD: 0-0 12-8 ON THE ROAD FRIDAY NIGHT. HALIFAX WILL HAVE AND EVEN QUICKER TURN- st AROUND AS THEY FACE THE BUFFALO BANDITS ON SATURDAY, FEB. 29 AT 7PM IN Matchup: 1 BUFFALO, NY. HISTORY: THIS WILL BE THE FIRST ALL-TIME MATCHUP BETWEEN THE TWO OPPO- PLACE: Uncasville, CT NENTS SINCE THE THUNDERBIRDS’ RELOCATION FROM ROCHESTER TO HALIFAX AS ARENA: Mohegan Sun Arena PART OF THE NLL EXPANSION. DOUBLEHEADER NEW ENGLAND: AFTER THE BLACK WOLVES’ 12-8 VICTORY OVER THE RIPTIDE, THEY ARE NOW 3-0 ON THE ROAD AND 6-3 OVERALL. NEW ENGLAND WILL LOOK TO IN- 2019 Records CREASE ITS WIN STREAK TO THREE AS WELL AS IMPROVE ITS HOME RECORD TO 4-3. BLACK WOLVES: 9-9 OFFENSE: ALTHOUGH A SLOW START AGAINST THE RIPTIDE ON FRIDAY NIGHT, THE Thunderbirds: 2019 Expansion team BLACK WOLVES’ OFFENSE GOT INTO MOTION SIMILARLY TO THE MATCHUP AGAINST ROCHESTER. AFTER RECORDING THREE GOALS AND FIVE ASSISTS AGAINST NEW YORK, CALLUM CRAWFORD NOW HAS A TOTAL OF 26 GOALS AND 37 ASSISTS PLAC- NLL STANDINGS ING HIM THIRD AND FIRST IN THE LEAGUE RANKS. JOE RESETARITS AND REILLY O’CONNOR ALSO ADDED THREE GOALS ON THE NIGHT WHICH SITS THEM SECOND AND THIRD ON THE TEAM IN GOALS AND POINTS. RESETARITS HAS 21 GOALS AND Overall Home-Road 18 ASSISTS FOR 39 POINTS AND O’CONNOR HAS 17 GOALS AND 15 ASSISTS FOR 32 Team W-L Pct. W-L W-L POINTS. ALSO WITH 32 POINTS FOR THE BLACK WOLVES IS STEPHAN LEBLANC AND ROOKIE ANDREW KEW WHO SIT SECOND AND THIRD ON THE TEAM, BUT IN ASSISTS. Buffalo 6-3 0.667 3-2 3-1 THE PAIR HAS 24 AND 22 DIMES, RESPECTIVELY. Calgary 4-4 0.500 1-3 3-1 DEFENSE: THE NEW ENGLAND DEFENSE HAS PROVEN TO BE TOUGH IN ALL FACETS Colorado 5-6 0.455 2-2 3-4 THIS SEASON. TOGETHER THE TEAM IS AVERAGING 8.6 CAUSED TURNOVERS PER Georgia 5-4 0.556 2-3 3-1 GAME. TONY MALCOM LEADS THE PACK WITH 10 CAUSED TURNOVERS AND ADAM BOMBERRY FOLLOWS WITH NINE. RECENTLY, THE BLACK WOLVES HAVE BEEN PLAY- Halifax 7-2 0.778 5-1 2-1 ING WITH ANOTHER DEFENDER IN THE MIX WHICH ADDS TO THE VERSATILITY OF New England 6-3 0.667 3-3 3-0 THE BACKEND. GREG DOWNING, BRETT MANNEY, TY LOGAN, CREIGHTON REID AND NICK CHAYKOWSKY COMBINE FOR 36 OF THE TEAM’S 77 CAUSED TURNOVERS AS New York 1-10 0.091 1-4 0-6 WELL AS 229 OF THE TEAM’S 774 LOOSE BALLS. CONTINUING TO SIT AT THE TOP OF Philadelphia 7-4 0.636 3-2 4-2 THE PACK IN LOOSE BALLS COLLECTED IS MALCOM WITH 78 AND NARDELLA WITH 72. ON THE FACEOFF, NARDELLA IS 129-OF-200 WHICH HOLDS HIM STEADY AT 65 Rochester 1-8 0.111 1-3 0-5 PERCENT ON THE X AND FOURTH IN THE LEAGUE IN TOTAL FACEOFFS WON. San Diego 4-6 0.400 2-3 2-3 DOUG JAMIESON RECENTLY RECORDED HIS 1000 CAREER SAVE AND NOW SITS Saskatchewan 6-2 0.750 1-2 5-0 FOURTH IN ALL-TIME SAVES IN FRANCHISE HISTORY. JAMIESON HAS RECORDED 664 Toronto 6-3 0.667 4-1 2-2 SAVES THIS SEASON, HAS A .826 SAVE PERCENTAGE AND AMONG GOALIES IN THE LEAGUE WITH AT LEAST 192 MINUTES OF ACTION HE RANKS SECOND WITH AN 8.87 Vancouver 4-7 0.364 2-3 2-4 GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE. HALIFAX: THE THUNDERBIRDS ARE CURRENTLY 7-2 AFTER STARTING THE SEASON milestones OFF 6-0. HALIFAX’S ONLY TWO LOSSES HAVE COME AT THE HANDS OF TORONTO AND SASKATCHEWAN. Doug Jamieson recorded his 1000th career save on Friday, Feb. 28 against NEw York. Jamieson HELPING LEAD THE THUNDERBIRDS OFFENSIVELY IS FOUR MAIN PLAYERS WITH A tallied 41 saves in the 12-8 vicotry. ONE GOAL DIFFERENTIAL BETWEEN THE TOP THREE SPOTS. CODY JAMIESON HAS SCORED 17 GOALS AND HAS ASSISTED ON 24 FOR 41 POINTS. RYAN BENESCH HAS Callum crawford tallied his 1000th point on RECORDED 16 GOALS AND 26 ASSISTS FOR A TEAM-HIGH 42 POINTS. SITTING AT Fri., Dec. 27 against New York. Crawford record- THIRD IN GOALS IS STEPHEN KEOGH WITH 15 AND THIRD IN ASSISTS IS MIKE BURKE WITH 21. ed five goals and nine assists for 14 points. DEFENSIVELY, GRAEME HOSSACK, JAMES BARCLAY AND SCOTT CAMPBELL HAVE joe resetarits recorded his 400th career point DONE THE MOST DAMAGE TO OPPOSING TEAM’S OFFENSE. HOSSACK HAS CAUSED against New York (12/27). 14 TURNOVERS, BARCLAY 11 AND CAMPBELL NINE. TOGETHER THE TRIO HAS ALSO COLLECTED 205 LOOSE BALLS. LEADING THE TEAM IN THE SAME CATEGORY IS JAKE Brett Manney has appeared in 94 of the Black WITHERS WHOSE PRIMARY LOCATION IS ON THE X. WITHERS HAS RACKED UP A Wolves 99 regular season games since arrive TEAM-HIGH 109 LOOSE BALLS AND HAS WON 177 OF 229 FACEOFFS THIS SEASON in New England. WHICH PLACES HIM SECOND IN THE LEAGUE IN FACEOFFS WON. WARREN HILL STANDS IN THE NET FOR THE THUNDERBIRDS AND HAS SEEN 515 Joe Nardella scored his first career NLL goal MINUTES OF ACTION THIS SEASON. IN NINE CONTESTS HE HAS RECORDED 348 against vancover (2/1) SAVES AND HAS A SEASON SAVE PERCENTAGE OF .813. LOOKING AHEAD: NEW ENGLAND WILL HIT THE ROAD FOR THE NEXT TWO GAMES, MAKING TRIPS TO PHILADELPHIA ON SATURDAY, MAR. 7 AND BUFFALO ON SATUR- DAY, MAR. 14. THE PACK WILL HAVE AN EVEN QUICKER TURNAROUND THE WEEKEND OF MAR. 14 AS THEY COMPETE AGAINST BUFFALO AT 7PM ON SATURDAY AND THEN HEAD HOME TO FACEOFF AGAINST THE CALGARY ROUGHNECKS ON SUNDAY, MAR. 15 AT 3PM. NEW ENGLAND vs Halifax GAME NOTES NEW ENGLAND TEAM ROSTER BLACK WOLVES ACTIVE ROSTER No. Player Pos. Ht. Wt. Shoots Date of Birth College/Hometown 4 Anthony Malcom T 6-1 190 Right 10/22/93 Mars Hill/New Westminster, BC 8 Greg Downing D 6-1 185 Left 3/25/85 Burlington, ON 9 Reilly O’Connor F 6-1 175 Left 5/20/93 Georgetown/Whitby, ON 10 Adam Bomberry D 6-1 215 Left 2/18/94 Onondaga CC/Akwesasne, NY 13 Brett Manney (C) D 6-3 220 Right 9/21/85 Delaware/Newtown, PA 15 Joe Resetarits F 5-11 188 Right 8/22/89 Albany/Derby, NY 17 Colton Watkinson T 6-4 195 Left 4/6/93 Limestone/Burlington, ON 18 Ty Logan D 5-11 195 Left 6/12/96 Carleton Univ./Ohsweken, ON 22 Nick Chaykowsky F 6-2 190 Right 9/17/96 Trent/Bradford, ON 26 Jackson Nishimura D 6-1 162 Left 5/1/97 Guelph/Toronto, ON 30 Doug Jamieson G 6-3 275 Right 11/29/96 Onondaga CC/Ohsweken, ON 33 John LaFontaine (A) T 6-1 215 Right 4/15/90 York/Whitby, ON 34 Mackenzie Mitchell D 6-3 205 Left 8/19/96 Brock/Orangeville, ON 35 Ethan Woods G 6-4 190 Right 3/11/98 Georgian College/Owen Sound, ON 42 Andrew Kew F 6-3 200 Left 5/19/96 Tampa/ Oakville, ON 44 Tristan Rai F 6-0 170 Right 1/22/95 Lehigh Univ./Edmonton, AB 62 Creighton Reid D 6-2 197 Left 1/20/87 Ryerson/Milton, ON 78 Jordan Durston F 5-11 215 Left 5/13/94 Six Arrows Nations/Wallaceburg, ON 86 Stephan Leblanc (A) F 6-1 205 Left 1/20/86 Queens University/Dundas, ON 91 Joe Nardella D 5-10 190 Right 5/11/93 Rutgers University/Cazenovia, NY 98 Callum Crawford F 6-3 205 Right 11/7/84 Dowling/Stittsville, ON PRACTICE SQUAD No.