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Burn Baby Burn
Inferno win fifth straight, move into first place.

 

02.10.03 - Entering last weekend tied for first place in the Southeast Division with Pee Dee, Columbia won three games in three days, including a 3-2 win over Pee Dee on Saturday, and extended its winning streak to five games.

The Inferno begins the week atop the division with 65 points (32-19-1), five points ahead of Florida (25-14-10) and six points ahead of Pee Dee (27-16-5).

Columbia hosts Florida on Thursday and Cincinnati on Friday before traveling to Greenville on Saturday.

The five consecutive wins is two shy of Columbia's team record seven-game winning streak set January 10-23. The Inferno has won four consecutive road games, two shy of its team record six consecutive road wins set October 11-November 15. The Inferno is 15-12-1 on the road equaling the total road wins it had in its inaugural season in 2001-02 (15-11-10), and is four wins shy of the 36 wins it had in 2001-02 (36-22-14).

Patrick Couture made 31 saves in a 3-0 win against Columbus on Friday and 27 saves in a 3-2 win against Pee Dee on Saturday improving to 3-0 with a 1.67 goals against average during the current winning streak.

Couture leads the ECHL in goals against average with 2.39 and is tied for the ECHL lead with three shutouts. He is tied for second in the ECHL with 21 wins and tied for fourth in save percentage with .918.

Rejean Stringer has scored 10 points (4g-6a) during the winning streak and leads the Inferno in goals (26), assists (44), points (70), game-winning goals (8) and shorthand goals (5).

Among the ECHL leaders, he is tied for second in scoring, is third in game-winning goals, is tied for third in shorthand goals, and is fourth in assists.

Stringer has broken his own team season records for points (57) and assists (43) and has also broken the team season records for game-winning goals (6 by Joel Trottier) and shorthand goals (3 by Matt Ulwelling). He has also tied the team season record for most goals (26 by Trottier).

Columbia has allowed an ECHL low 31 power-play goals and leads the ECHL on the penalty kill with 87.34 percent (214-for-245), and ranks eighth on the power play with 20.52 percent.

The Inferno ranks sixth in scoring with 3.54 goals per game and is eighth in goals allowed with 2.96 goals per game.