Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Jordan Tibbett set a team record with 50 saves on Friday night as the Phantoms won a dramatic 3-2 OT thriller. Tibbett faced another 40 Saturday but was on the wrong end of the 3-2 score 24 hours later. To sum it up, Tibbett stopped 90 shots in two games, ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
The Youngstown Phantoms returned home after completing a 1-3-1 road trip. The record on that trip failed to show that the Phantoms were in every game against three very good teams. Friday night, Sioux City rolled into town 20-23-7 and barely alive in the playoff hunt, a win was paramount ...
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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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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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Saturday, January 9th, 2010
The Youngstown Phantoms seem to have lost their mojo over the last couple of weeks. Friday, they did little to regain the promise shown in December as Fargo rolled into town and captured a 4-2 victory. The loss was the fourth in a row for the slumping Phantoms.
The Phantoms wasted ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
The Youngstown Phantoms returned to action following a ten-day layoff, a mandatory break that the USHL takes each year for the Christmas Holiday. The Phanoms unwrapped a 4-3 win over the visiting Waterloo Black Hawks before a good crowd at the Covelli Centre as Jordan Tibbett made 41 saves and ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
It was a rematch of opening night and the first meeting since for the two competing squads. The Youngstown Phantoms were leading that game 2-0 before the Indiana Ice overpowered the expansion hosts, who ended up losing 6-2. Thursday, there had to be revenge on the minds of the Phantoms.
Revenge would have ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
For some reason, the Chicago Steel (10-8-3)are ahead of the Youngstown Phantoms (9-8-2) in the standings but can never seem to get by them on the ice. The Phantoms used timely third period heroics to take the verdict, 6-4. Luke Eibler (pictured) hit a game winner and Jefferson Dahl put ...
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