TJ Johnston
Games: The Quad City Storm (7-10-1-1, 16 points) have a home-and-home weekend with the SPHL's second-place Peoria Rivermen (13-3-2-0, 28 points) on tap for Friday and Saturday. Puck drop Friday at the Peoria Civic Center is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. Saturday's start at Vibrant Arena at The Mark is set for 7:10 p.m.
Promotions: Saturday is John Deere Night with all Deere employees able to secure two free tickets to the game when they present their IDs at the box office. Also, the first 1,000 fans in the building on Saturday receive a bottle koozie.
History: The renewal of the Cold War on I-74 marks the sixth and seventh meetings between these two regional SPHL rivals. QC is 2-3 against the defending Presidents Cup champions this season with one of those victories coming in overtime. Peoria dominated last year's series (QC was 4-11-0-0) and the last five seasons (QC is 20-31-3-1 aginst the Rivermen).
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B-Mo honors: Quad City netminder Brent Moran earned this week's SPHL Player of the Week honors presented by Warrior Hockey. The 28-year-old stopped 72 of 73 shots in last weekend's sweep of Pensacola. His 5-0 Saturday victory was his second shutout of the season. Moran, who set the franchise's single-season win mark last season with 21, is one win away from tying Kevin Resop's franchise-leading 28 career wins in a Storm sweater.
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Roster moves: First-year QC coach Shayne Toporowski continued tweaking his roster this week with two players out of the locker room and two new additions.
The newcomers were acquired in trades - Dominic Dumas (from Macon) and Jordan Henderson (from Pensacola to complete the trade for Matt Ustaski's rights). Dumas, a 25-year-old center, was in the lineup for last weekends sweep of Pensacola and recorded one assist. In 10 games with Macon, he had three points on one goal and 2 assists. Henderson is a 6-foot, 200-pound defenseman that Toporowski didn't think he would get until after the new year. He spent the last three seasons playing 128 games for the Ice Flyers (11 goals, 34 assists, 45 points, 106 penalty minutes).
In separate deals, QC sent defenseman Jonathan Bartuccio-Pereira and right winger Houston Wilson to Pensacola.
QC also signed right winger Savva Smirnov to a contract after he had played five games (1 goal, 2 assists) on a PTO.
Game notes: There is a watch party scheduled for Friday's game. It will be held at The Lemonade Stand restaurant (131 W 2nd Street, Davenport). ... Peoria started its weekend action with Thursday's 6-0 home school-day special victory over Evansville. Five Rivermen scored in that game, with Michael McChesney (10) scoring the first two goals. Colby Muise stopped all 28 shots he saw, moving his record to 12-2 (1.60 goals against average, 0.935 save percentage). ... Peoria has won the last two meetings with QC and outscored the Storm 23-11 this season. ... Peoria has won four straight games, including last weekend's three-game sweep in Macon, and nine of its last 10. ... Both teams feature some explosive offensive players. QC is led by Leif Mattson (13 goals, 15 assists) who leads the league with 28 points. Weiland Parrish (5-18-23) leads the SPHL in assists. Alec Baer (11-10-21), Zach Wilkie (3-16-19) and Jordan Ernst (11-7-18) are Peoria's top scorers. ... Peoria leads the SPHL with 73 goals in 18 games and allowed the fewest (34). QC has been outscored 69-57.
-- compiled by Tom Johnston
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