From: mfoster@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Marc Foster)
Subject: CHL Update: 11-20
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:07:44 GMT
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Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

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Current CHL Standings, updated 11-20-92:
Blazers - RiverKings summary
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                   Overall            
              W  L  OTL PTS GF  GA    
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Okla. City    7  1   0  14  49  38
Fort Worth    4  5   0   8  44  41     
Tulsa         3  3   1   7  32  34       
Wichita       3  4   0   6  36  38      
Memphis       3  5   0   6  40  44      
Dallas        2  2   1   5  18  24   
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Tuesday - Fort Worth 3, @ OKC 4     Wednesday - Tulsa 4, @ Fort Worth 5 
          Memphis 8, @ Wichita 4                                  (shoot-out)
                              
Thursday - Memphis 5, @ OKC 6       Friday - Dallas @ Fort Worth
                                             Tulsa @ Wichita

Saturday - Dallas @ Memphis         Sunday - NO GAMES SCHEDULED
           Tulsa @ OKC                        
             
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Well, last night's Blazers-RiverKings game was something else.  OKC played 
without center Boyd Sutton, who is serving a seven game suspension for an 
incident which occured after the Ft. Worth game Tuesday night.  I didn't see
it, but he apparently shot the puck at linesman James Byers.  Mark McGinn
played his first game, filling in for Boyd.  McGinn had been out since training
camp with a broken cheek bone when he took a puck in the face. There was a fight
early in the Memphis game between OKC d-man Jamie Hearn and left wing Mike
Collins.  Collins wasted Hearn, and broke his nose.  Hearn never came back, and
may be out against Tulsa Saturday night, so someone else might be signed.  
Martin Pavek, who was cut to make room for Eric DuBois, is still around town
and is playing in a local rec league (he's the teammate of one of my neighbors),
so he might be a candidate, but I digress.  The Blazers looked terrible early
on as Memphis jumped out to a 4-1 lead after the first period.  The two teams
traded goals in the second, with Antoine Mindjimba looking much better in goal
for Memphis than he did in the opener.  The third period was all Blazers.  
After two they trailed 5-2, and started out the third by outshooting Memphis
18-0 in the first 8:00, but were not able to put one in the net.  Mindjimba's
luck started running out, though, as the Blazers scored three goals in about
as many minutes to tie the score at 5 with about 2:30 remaining.  I was almost
hoping to see my first regular season shootout, but Blazer right wing Daniel
Larin scored the game-winner with :40 remaining.  The OKC crowd of 4,268 was
very definitely louder in the third than the crowd of 9,122 was last Saturday
night against Tulsa.  It was a new experience for the fans, watching a team get
down early.  But they responded well, and probably brought about the turnaround
as much as anything else.  The stats from the game:

Memphis      4  1  0  -5   shots on goal MEM: 12-9-5=26
Okla. City   1  1  4  -6                 OKC: 11-19-26=56

goalies:  Memphis, Antonie Mindjimba - 50 saves
          Oklahoma City, Alan Perry - 21 saves

marc