MENTOR ICE BREAKERS GAME NOTES 2019‐20 ICE BREAKERS SCHEDULE 10/25 at Watertown W 3‐1 2019‐20 FPHL Game #201 10/26 at Watertown L 3‐1 Saturday, February 22, 2020, 6:30 p.m. 11/1 at Bale Creek W 7‐2 MENTOR ICE ARENA 11/2 at Bale Creek W 5‐0 Mentor, OH 11/8 at Bale Creek W 5‐3 11/9 BATTLE CREEK W 10‐3 Team Game #42 Team Game #42 11/15 at Delaware W 5‐2 (14‐24‐0‐3), 45 pts., .366 PCT (23‐13‐2‐3), 76 pts., .618 PCT 11/16 DELAWARE L 3‐2 4th in Eastern Division 2nd in Eastern Division 11/17 DANVILLE W 7‐4 11/22 PORT HURON L 4‐2 8th in FPHL 4th in FPHL 11/23 PORT HURON W 6‐3 11/27 at Columbus L 3‐1 11/29 at Columbus L 7‐5 Last night, F Tyler Gjurich 11/30 at Columbus W 6‐3 scored twice and dished out 12/6 at Danville L 3‐2 an assist as the Enforcers beat 12/7 at Danville L 5‐3 the Ice Breakers 5‐2. F Isaiah 12/13 at Bale Creek W 6‐1 Crawford and D Henry Berger 12/14 BATTLE CREEK W 6‐2 each scored their fourth goals 12/20 CAROLINA L 5‐1 of the year for the Ice Break‐ 12/21 CAROLINA L 2‐1 ers. 12/26 DANBURY W 6‐5 12/27 PORT HURON L 2‐0 12/28 PORT HURON L 4‐2 12/31 at Danville L 3‐0 1/3 at Danville W 4‐2 TEAM COMPARISON 1/4 DANVILLE SOL 2‐1 MEN ELM 1/10 at Carolina SOL 3‐2 1/11 at Carolina L 3‐0 GF/G 3.1 (9th) 4.0 (4th) 1/17 DANVILLE L 4‐2 GA/G 3.7 (7th) 3.2 (3rd) 1/18 DANVILLE L 4‐2 12.1% (9th) 22.5% (3rd) 1/20 BATTLE CREEK W 4‐2 PP% 1/24 at Carolina L 4‐1 PK% 82.7% (6th) 83.6% (5th) 1/25 at Carolina L 7‐2 1/26 CAROLINA SOL 4‐3 ICE BREAKERS PRE‐SCOUT: Mentor is currently riding a season‐long 10‐game losing 1/31 at Port Huron L 4‐2 streak that dates back to January 24. The Ice Breakers last picked up a point in a 4‐3 2/1 at Port Huron L 9‐2 shootout loss against Carolina on January 26. With 45 points and a record of 14‐24‐0‐3, Mentor is in fourth place in the Eastern Division and eighth in the FPHL. The Ice Break‐ 2/7 at Columbus L 10‐1 ers are led in scoring by F Declan Conway (29‐23‐52), F Alex Morrow (7‐16‐23) and F 2/8 at Columbus L 7‐3 Nate Farrington (6‐17‐23). 2/14 at Port Huron L 7‐2 2/15 at Port Huron L 4‐3 ENFORCERS PRE‐SCOUT: Elmira has won each of its last three games and nine of 10 overall. Last weekend, the Enforcers took two of three in a weekend series against 2/21 ELMIRA L 5‐2 Watertown before topping the Ice Breakers 5‐2 last night. Elmira is in second place in 2/22 ELMIRA the Eastern Division and fourth in the 10‐team FPHL. The Enforcers’ top scorers are F 2/28 PORT HURON Tyler Gjurich (35‐36‐71), F Ahmed Mahfouz (23‐48‐71) and F Hudson Michealis (22‐46 2/29 PORT HURON ‐48). 3/1 at Danville SEASON SERIES: Today’s game marks the second of six matchups in the season series 3/6 at Elmira between the Ice Breakers and Enforcers, including the final game at Mentor Ice Arena. 3/7 at Elmira Elmira posted a 6‐2‐2‐0 record against Mentor last year, but the two clubs split their 3/8 DELAWARE final four games of the regular season. 3/13 at Delaware 3/14 at Delaware NEXT HOME GAME: Fri, Feb. 28th vs. Port Huron Prowlers, 7:35 p.m. EST 3/15 at Delaware The homestand connues next Friday night as the Port Huron Prowlers make their 3/20 at Danbury final trip to Mentor Ice Arena this season. The Ice Breakers will be hosng Game Show 3/21 at Danbury Night with fans having chances to win prizes through unique promoons between 3/27 WATERTOWN periods and during media meouts. Tickets are available now at www.mentoricebreakers.com/ckets or by calling (440) 290‐8502. 3/28 WATERTOWN 3/29 WATERTOWN ICE BREAKERS BROADCAST: Angelo Veloa and Jared Tennant (YouTube) 4/3 at Elmira 4/4 at Elmira ENFORCERS BROADCAST: Jon Kliment (Mixlr) MENTOR ICE BREAKERS GAME NOTES—Feb. 22, 2020 vs. Elmira Enforcers Pg. 2 ROAD TRIP REVIEW: The Ice Breakers’ recent six‐game road trip didn’t go as INSIDE THE ALL‐TIME SERIES planned, to say the least. Mentor dropped all six matchups on the three‐week, two‐ city trip, including four losses in Port Huron. Following a pair of duds against the RECORD VS. ELM…….2‐7‐0‐2 Prowlers, the Ice Breakers were outscored 16‐2 over the first four periods of their LAST 10 VS. ELM…….2‐6‐0‐2 two‐game set against Columbus. From there, the team was able to sele down and STREAK VS. ELM……..0‐1‐0‐0 edged out the River Dragons 7‐3 over the remainder of the contest. MEN GOALS: 32 ELM GOALS: 52 Following another setback last Friday against Port Huron, the Ice Breakers played one FIRST MEETING—12/8/18 (L, 6‐3) of their beer games in recent weeks in a 4‐3 loss to close out the road trip. D Jiri LAST MEETING ‐ 2/22/20 (L, 5‐2) Pestuka was credited with a goal and an assist while D Dominick Horvath found the back of the net for the first me in his FPHL career. BETWEEN THE PIPES VETERAN PRESENCE: The signing of F Josh Newberg is already paying dividends for the Ice Breakers. At the age of 32, Newberg is the oldest member of Mentor’s roster. He appeared in his 100th career FPHL game last Saturday and already has a goal and #31 Frankie McClendon an assist over four oungs as an Ice Breaker. Newberg, who broke into the league in OVERALL: 2017, provides a much‐needed veteran voice in the locker room and has a 15‐28‐43 13 GP, (4‐5‐0‐0), 1 SO, 3.92 GAA, .885 SV% scoring line in his career. He had a 12‐game snt with the ECHL’s Elmira Jackals in AT HOME: 2016, scoring at a point‐per‐game pace with four goals and eight assists. 5 GP, (4‐1‐0‐0), 1 SO, 2.00 GAA, .914 SV% SETTING RECORDS: With his goal in the third period against Columbus on February 8, ON THE ROAD: F Declan Conway set a new franchise record for points in a single season (52). He has 8 GP, (0‐4‐0‐0), 0 SO, 4.74 GAA, .870 SV% 72 career points in Mentor and needs only one more to take over as the Ice Breakers’ VS. ELMIRA: all‐me leading scorer. 1 GP, (0‐1‐0‐0), 0 SO, 5.00 GAA, .896 SV% STILL PRODUCING: Over the last month or so, F Steven Fowler has been Mentor’s most dangerous forward. When healthy, the 22‐year‐old is a point‐per‐game scorer #30 Jordan Brant in the FPHL and has posted an 8‐13‐21 line in 22 appearances. Since the calendar OVERALL: flipped to 2020, Fowler has registered at least a point in 11 of his 13 games, including 15 GP, (3‐8‐0‐1), 0 SO, 4.21 GAA, .881 SV% three mul‐point performances. AT HOME: 7 GP, (2‐3‐0‐1), 0 SO, 3.09 GAA, .912 SV% IRON MAN: With several players missing games for the first me this season on the ON THE ROAD: Ice Breakers’ recent road trip, F Alex Morrow has become the team’s leader in 8 GP, (1‐5‐0‐0), 0 SO, 5.63 GAA, .844 SV% games played, appearing in all 41 contests to date. In his career, Morrow has suited VS. ELMIRA: up for 90 games as an Ice Breaker, trailing only F Nate Farrington for the team rec‐ 0 GP, (0‐0‐0‐0), 0 SO, 0.00 GAA, .000 SV% ord. MAGIC NUMBER: Throughout the season, the Ice Breakers have seen tremendous success when scoring four goals or more, winning 13 of 14 games. Unfortunately, HEAD‐TO HEAD LEADERS (2019‐20) Mentor has hit that number only twice since the beginning of January. Both games were victories. MENTOR WELCOME BACK: Tonight’s game marks the return of F Mark Essery to Northeast NAME GP G A PTS Ohio. The Framingham, Massachuses nave was traded to Elmira on February 6 in H. Berger 1 1 0 1 exchange for Horvath and F Jack Chudleigh, who has not reported to Mentor. Essery, I. Crawford 1 1 0 1 who was the Ice Breakers’ leading scorer a season ago with 51 points, has dished out three assists and earned a plus‐three rang over seven oungs as an Enforcer. S. Fowler 1 0 1 1 ELMIRA MILESTONE ALERT: Former FPHL Rookie of the Year and current Enforcer F Stepan NAME GP G A PTS Timofeyev needs only one more point to reach 100 in his career.