Monday, March 15th, 2010
Goaltenders are wired a little different. They usually are not the best skaters on the ice and rely on their reflexes to get their jobs done. Jordan Tibbett and Matt Mahalak are the tandem that the Youngstown Phantoms have been using all season. Any hockey fan will vouch that ...
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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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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.
Unfortunately for the home ...
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