NYE Game Rescheduled:

From the Americans website:

KENNEWICK, WA – Tri-City Americans’ Governor/General Manager Bob Tory, in conjunction with the Spokane Chiefs and Western Hockey League, announced today that the postponed December 31 game has been rescheduled.  The game will be made up on President’s Day, Monday, February 21 at the Toyota Center.  Game time is 7:05 p.m.

The WHL announced, in addition to the game date, that the game will be re-played in its entirety, with both clubs able to dress their best rosters available.  All statistical information from the December 31 postponed game will be removed from the WHL records.

This is great news, everyone involved has handled this very well. We still get the game at home, on a holiday, and we'll get a full game. There were some questions as to whether the game would resume from where it was left off or if they'd re-rack the whole thing. Im glad, that would be weird to show up to a 2 period game...so I think they made the right call.

What it does to the schedule is this:

Fri -  Feb 18 Chilliwack @ TC

Sat - Feb 19 Spokane @ TC

Mon - Feb 21 Spokane @ TC

Tues - Feb 22 Everett @ TC

Fri - Feb 25 Seattle @ TC

That's 5 games in 7 days which is a lot of hockey...4 games in 5 days O_O. Plus this is all after a bunch of road games:

Feb 11  @ Portland

Feb 12 @ Spokane

Feb 13 @ Chilliwack

Feb 15 @ Kamloops


so the schedule gets a little muddy in February, but this team has proven they play better with more consistent play. Taking too much time off in between games allows for rust, and that (compiled with injuries etc.) led to a less than superb November.
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US DIVISION STANDINGS UPDATE:

Rank	U.S. Division	GP	W	L	OTL	SL	PTS	PCT	GF	GA	STK	P10	PIM
1	Portland Winterhawks	40	25	12	0	3	53	0.662	150	126	0-4-0-0	4-6-0-0	818
2	Spokane Chiefs	37	22	10	3	2	49	0.662	155	102	4-0-0-0	8-1-1-0	723
3	Tri-City Americans	35	22	11	1	1	46	0.657	134	104	3-0-0-0	8-2-0-0	572
4	Seattle Thunderbirds	37	16	14	3	4	39	0.527	104	121	0-1-0-0	4-6-0-0	675
5	Everett Silvertips	39	16	18	2	3	37	0.474	94	116	0-3-0-0	4-5-1-0	620