Tomahawks Look to Continue Perfect Home Record vs Generals

Written by: David Nicoletti

After a physical weekend sweep against Maryland, the Johnstown Tomahawks are back at home for this weekend series. This time, the Tomahawks will welcome the Northeast Generals to 1ST SUMMIT ARENA for a three-game series this Friday through Sunday. Puck drops are for 7:30 pm on Friday, 7 pm on Saturday, and 2 pm on Sunday.

This weekend at the War Memorial will host the eighth, ninth, and 10th match-up between the Hawks and Gens. The last time these two teams played each other were back on January 29th-31st. The Tomahawks would play Northeast in a three-game series. From there, the Hawks would sweep the Gens, outscoring Northeast that weekend 13-6. They would take home 6-2, 4-3, and 3-1 wins to send the Generals home without a win.

The Northeast Generals come into this series after being swept by the New Jersey Titans last weekend on the 12th and 13th. They would get shut out in game one 5-0, following up game two with a 4-2 loss to the Titans. Princeton University commit forward Nick Seitz from New Jersey would score four goals that entire weekend against the Gens, two in game one, and two in game two.

Your Tomahawks come into this series after sweeping the Maryland Black Bears at home last weekend on the 12th and 13th. Game one would see some Old Time Hockey down at the barn, four fights and a Johnstown 5-2 win to boot. Following that up in game two with a tough back-and-forth match-up, that would end with weekend hero Will Margel scoring the game-winning-goal in OT, taking the series for your Hawks 4-3.

HEAD TO HEAD - all stats as of 03/16/2021

Johnstown leads season series 6-0-1-0

Northeast season series record 1-6-0-0

JOHNSTOWN

East Division Rank: 1st

Record: 24-6-2-2

Points: 52

Leading Goal Scorer: John Gelatt (19-17-36) [NAHL Rank: T-2nd]

Leading Assists Scorer: Brendan Clark (10-28-38) [NAHL Rank: 2nd]

Leading Points Scorer: Jay Ahearn (18-24-42) [NAHL Rank: 2nd]

Top Goalie: Sam Evola (14-3-1-1 | 2.07 GAA | 0.924 SV% | 2 SO | 1132 MIN)

[NAHL Rank: 5th in W, 3rd in GAA, 6th in SV%, T-3rd in SO]

NORTHEAST

East Division Rank: 6th

Record: 12-24-3-0

Points: 27

Leading Goal Scorer: Liam McCanney (15-12-27)

Leading Assists Scorer: Aidan Curran (2-18-20)

Leading Points Scorer: Liam McCanney (15-12-27)

Top Goalie: Hugo Hass (9-10-3-0 | 3.11 GAA | 0.924 SV% | 1368 MIN)

[NAHL Rank: T-6th in SV% 7th in MIN]

TEAM UPDATE

TOMAHAWKS STREAKS

Jay Ahearn - Three Game Points Streak (three assists) since 03/06/2021

Sam Evola - Two Game Winning Streak since 03/12/2021

John Gelatt - Four Game Points Streak (two goals & two assists) since 02/27/2021

Josh Graziano - Two Game Winning Streak since 03/05/2021

Will Margel - Eight Game Points Streak (seven goals, four assists) since 02/20/2021

Holt Oliphant - Three Game Points Streak (one goal & three assists) since 03/06/2021

William Persson - Two Game Points Streak (one goal & assists) since 03/12/2021

Ryan Poorman - Two Game Points Streak (one goal & one assist) since 03/05/2021