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| Mavs President and GM Brent Thiessen won the Commitment Cup! Whatever that is... |
Welcome to the CHL All-Star
break! Your Missouri Mavericks are currently fifth in the seven-team
Turner Conference with 35 points. They are 16-13-3 overall, and are 8-8-1
with 17 points over the course of the second quarter of the season. The
Mavs are technically still a playoff team with this record. They have 96
GF and 103 GA.
2010-11 season, after 32
games:
18-11-3
39 pts
103 GF
90 GA
-7 GF and -13(!) GA from
one season ago. Where has everything gone so terribly wrong?
*C-Bass Thinel is still the
team leader in points (9+30=39). He has slipped into a tie for seventh in
the league in this category. There are no Mavs among league point leaders
in the top twenty. Thinel is tied for second in the league in assists,
seven behind the leader. Dale Mahovsky’s 30 points is second on the team
(13+17=30). The league leader has 48 points.
*The Mavs are ninth of
fourteen teams in the league in goals for. They are eighth in goals
against. That is very middle of the road-y. Not good for a team
that started the season with much of the same defense as last year, and brought
in A LOT of offensive help.
*48 goals in the first
fifteen games of the season (3.2 avg.), 48 goals over the course of the past 17
(2.82 avg.).
*In 2010-11, the Mavs had
103 total goals in their first thirty-two games (3.22 avg.), and 62 goals
between Games #16-#32 (3.65 avg.).
*During this seventeen game
stretch:
--15 goals over the first
six games
--15 goals over the next
four games
--The next game was the
only time the Mavs have been shutout all season
--18 goals over the last
six games
*Ah, but how about goals
against? The Mavs gave up 43 over the first fifteen games (2.87 avg.),
but they have given up 60 over the past seventeen games (3.53 avg.).
During the seventeen game stretch:
--30 goals in the first
eight games
--30 goals in the last nine
games, including one shutout.
*In 2010-11, the Mavs gave
up 90 total goals in their first thirty-two games (2.81 avg.), and 47 goals
between Games #16-#32 (2.76).
*Speaking of defense, there
have been eleven different defenders on this team over the course of thirty-two
games. Last season, the Mavs only used 8 defenders. In fairness,
J.P. Testwuide and Dustin Friesen are with the Chicago Wolves.
*Remember when only one
active defenseman had a negative plus/minus one quarter through the season?
Only Mike Wakita, Zach Carriveau, and David Simoes are in the positive (all
with a +3; Carriveau is no longer with the team).
*There are no Mavs among
the league leaders in plus/minus. Wichita has four players in the top
five, all with a combined +67. Andrew Martens, former Wichita Thunder-er
and current OKC Baron, has/had a +20. The top three Mavs plus/minus are a
combined +19. Five current Mavs are positive. Carlyle Lewis and JS
Dickson have the worst plus/minus with -6 each.
*Vern Cooper played in 11
games, had 6 points (2+4=6), was a +5, took 26 shots, and recorded a .077
shooting percentage. Now he is off to pursue his academic career. Best of luck to him.
*Ryan Jardine, through
twenty-seven games, has 8 goals, 10 assists, and 18 points. After missing
five games in the first quarter of the season, he has played every game in the
second quarter of the season. So, that’s encouraging.
*Did I mention the Mavs are
not very good on the powerplay?
*The league leader in
powerplay percentage is Fort Wayne with 25.45%. They also have the least
amount of opportunities in the league with 110, scoring 28 times.
*The Mavs are ninth in PP%
(17.24%) with 116 opportunities and 20 goals. Only Texas has had fewer PP
goals (15). Laredo also has 20, but only has scored 14.29% of the time.
*Record when the Mavs
scored a PPG in the last seventeen games: 4-1-1
*Record when the Mavs
failed to score on the powerplay in the last seventeen games: 4-7
*JS Dickson has 14 goals,
and 5 of those have come on the PP. He is tied for sixth in the league in
PPG. The league leader, Brandon Marino of Quad City, has 9.
*Thinel has 11 powerplay
assists, which is tied for sixth in the league. The leader is Todd
Robinson of Evansville with 19.
*The Mavs have 3
shorthanded goals, thanks mostly to defenders (Pszenyczny and Kaunisto - before
he was traded). Rapid City, the league leader in this category, has 12.
Oddly enough, three of their top four goal scorers (Les Reaney, league points
leader Jesse Schultz, and Shawn Limpright) are all in the top five of this
category.
*The Mavs were fourth on
the penalty kill at 82.6% with 12 goals against after the first fifteen games.
*They are now tenth at
80.49%, having given up twelve goals on the PK in the past seventeen games.
The league best is Allen at 85.42%. The league worst is Dayton at 71.43%.
*12 of 43 goals against
were on the PK over the first fifteen games, while 12 of 60 goals against were
on the PK over the last seventeen games. Something is wrong, but not just
on the PK.
*The Mavs have given up 24
PPGA, which is three less than the league leader, Evansville, with 21 PPGA.
But, the Mavs seventh place standing looks amazing compared to Dayton’s league
worst 44 PPGA.
*The Mavs have been
shorthanded the third least of any team, 123 times.
*They are now ninth in PIM
with 544 minutes, after being fifth for the first quarter of the season with
305. They have recorded 239 minutes in the last seventeen games.
*No longer do the Mavs have
any players in the league’s top fifteen most penalty minutes. Carlyle
Lewis is sixteenth with 78, and Pszenyczny is twentieth with 70.
*Gerry Festa’s stats before
being traded:
--8 GP
--2-4-2
--24 GA
--3.00 GAA
--.904 SV%
*New Mav, and former
Arizona Sundog, Levente Szuper’s stats this season (one game with Mavs):
--16 GP
--3-6-4
--43 GA (t-last)
--3.16 GAA (19th)
--.919 SV% (t-4th)
*Charlie Effinger is back
with the Mavs, and is seventh in the league in SV % (.917). Szuper is
tied for fourth with .919%. The leader is the backup in Dayton, Larry
Sterling, with .928%.
*Effinger has started nine
games over the course of the last seventeen games, and is 5-4 with 30 GA and
one shutout.
*Effinger is fourteenth in
the league in GAA with 2.94. Szuper is nineteenth with 3.16. The
leader is Mark Guggenberger for Texas with 2.29 GAA.
*Just as an example of how
injuries have caused turmoil for this team, the Mavs had fifteen players
dressed, plus one goalie (Festa) for their game on December 20th,
2011.
*The Mavs are 6-7-1 at
home. They have gone 5-4 since the first quarter of the season.
*The Mavs are third in
average total attendance with 5,456 people per game. Since the first five
home games, the last nine have seen a 255 person average decrease. The
Mavs are safely in fourth in total attendance with 76,388, just under 3,000
behind Rapid City who has played three more home games.
*The CHL is nearing one
million total spectators for the season. The league has failed to achieve
over two million total spectators only twice since 2002-03 (2008-09, 2009-10).
*The Mavs are 10-6-2 on the
road. This is among the league leaders. They have gone 3-4-1 since
the first quarter of the season, and 4-6-2 since the 6-0 road start.
*The Mavs have had one
losing streak of three games, and one losing streak of four (0-3-1 over that
stretch).
*The longest winning
streak, other than the six game streak at the start of the season, is the
recent four game winning streak that ended this past Sunday.
*Andrew Courtney is the
Mavs only All-Star game representative. He is fourth on the team in goals
(12), fifth in assists and points (10, 22), and is a team best +7. He was a -2 with seven
shots in the ASG.
*Former Mavs Kaunisto and
Carriveau played for the hosting Arizona Sundogs in the ASG.
*The Chicago Wolves are in
second place in the AHL’s Midwest Division, two points behind the Charlotte
Checkers. They have 106 GF and 96 GA, and are currently on a four game
win streak. J.P. Testwuide has played ten games and is a -2. Dustin
Friesen has played in nineteen games and has three points (1+2=3). He is
a +6. Craig MacTavish is still the coach.
So, the Mavericks have not
played exceptionally well over the second quarter of the season. They are
giving up a lot more goals, but also have to deal with the instability that
comes with injuries, big league call-ups, and transactions. This team
still has not lapsed into being “streak-y,” but they do tend to struggle at
times. One area that they cannot afford to struggle is on the PK, where
they have been so solid in the past.
The Mavs should not be
happy with the offensive output from the first half of the season after
bringing in a lot of players to help that issue. It’s tough to blame the
defense for being sloppy over the past few weeks, but the offense must come
around for the last thirty games or so for the Mavs to even threaten to make
noise in the playoffs.
As always, you
can follow your favorite CHL team at their official
site and at the CHL's official site. Also, there is info on the KC
Star's site, and
every now and then on the Pitch's site. Be sure to read Mavericks Weekly on the Mavs' site for all of the weekly updates and
upcoming events at the IEC.
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