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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Good teams find ways to win games. Omaha is a good team atop the Western Division standings of the USHL. Despite being outplayed and outhit for a majority of Saturday night's game by the Youngstown Phantoms, the team that knew how to win managed to do just that, win.
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Friday, The Curtis Carr Era was officially kicked into 'go' mode. Unfortunately for the Youngstown Phantoms, the opponent was the Western Conference leading Omaha Lancers. The Lancers beat the Phantoms earlier in the week, 6-1, in Omaha. Much had changed since that game. Bob Mainhardt was out, Carr was in, and ...
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Alex Zoldan announced on Tuesday that Coach Bob Mainhardt and the Youngstown Phantoms have parted ways. The seperation seems to be mutual. If the situation were an outright firing, the Phantoms surely would have selected someone other than Mainhardt's right-hand guy for the past four years, Curt Carr, to replace ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
The Youngstown Phantoms went into their crucial matchup with Waterloo in an unfamiliar place, last. For the first time all season, the Phantoms were in the basement, trailing Team USA by two points. The Phantoms are 1-10-0 in 2010 and if they lost one or even both games to Waterloo, ...
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
When an outsider meets a guy like Curtis Carr, they usually scratch their head and wonder what exactly he does for the Youngstown Phantoms. His official title in the media guide is Associate Coach / Director of Player Development. To actually talk with him about his role with the team ...
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
The Youngstown Phantoms got embarrassed on their home ice Friday in dropping an 8-1 decision to Sioux Falls. The Stampede beat the Phantoms in every phase of that game. As Classic Rock legends Foreigner once sang, That Was Yesterday, and Sunday offered fresh zeroes on the scoreboard.
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Cody Strang was named the Reebok USHL Offensive Player of The Week. Strang recorded the first hat trick in Youngstown Phantoms history against Team USA in a 7-3 triumph. More impressively, the three goals were scored consecutively.
Strang has already signed the magic letter to play at The University of Wisconsin following ...
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
The Harlem Globetrotters were set to share their magic with Youngstown at The Covelli Centre on Saturday. Somehow the script was flipped and the Youngstown Phantoms took on the role of the Washington Generals, the team that was the patsy forced to play the Globetrotters and look foolish in losing badly. ...
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