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Jan.2,2009
Comeback falls short on home ice
If there's been one downfall to the Wheeling Nailers' season thus far, it's that at times the team seems disinterested and lacks the necessary energy to compete on a nightly basis.
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Jan.2,2009
By Brian Compton - NHL.com Staff Writer
The resurgence of the Wheeling Nailers has been built around a youth movement -- one that has come together faster than anyone could have possibly expected.
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Dec.26,2008
Bryan Ewing added a hat trick.
WHEELING -- The Wheeling Nailers are all alone atop the ECHL's North Division standings following a 10-6 victrory over the Reading Royals at WesBanco Arena. The ten goals are the most they've scored this season.
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Dec.26,2008
Things were so good offensively for the Wheeling Nailers on Friday night, that WAHA product Bryan ''Boomer'' Ewing recorded his first professional hat trick and was relegated to the game's No. 2 star.
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Dec.21,2008
Six different Nailers scored goals.
WHEELING -- The Wheeling Nailers moved into a first-place tie with the Johnstown Chiefs in the ECHL's North Division with a solid 6-2 victory over the Trenton Devils at WesBanco Arena
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Dec.21,2008
By Shawn Rine
Ohio Sports Editor
The Intelligencer & Wheeling News Register
WHEELING, W.Va. - The word history is defined as a past notable for its important, unusual, or interesting events. Acts, ideas, or events that will, or can, shape the course of the future.
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Dec.20,2008
Wheeling scored two goals in the last 4 minutes of the game for an exciting 5-4 win on the road
JOHNSTOWN , PA -- The Nailers scored two goals in the last 4 minutes of the game for an exciting 5-4 win on the road at the Johnstown Chiefs Saturday night.
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Dec.12,2008
WHEELING -- Blair Yaworski scored four times as the Johnstown Chiefs beat the Nailers Friday night 7-3
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Dec.19,2008
Wheeling stuck in second after 7-3 loss to Johnstown
The Johnstown Chiefs entered WesBanco Arena on Friday night as the first-place team in the ECHL North Division and left the same way. On a night that featured a contest for the ugliest Christmas sweater, the defense wasn't much prettier to watch.
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Dec.17,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
Don't look now, but here come the Wheeling Nailers toward the top of the North Division. Less than a week ago they were eight points behind division-leading Johnstown, but a sweep of a three-game weekend has Wheeling back on the doorstep of the top spot.
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Dec.17,2008
The transition from college to professional hockey can have its ups and downs. Throw in an early injury and a lack of playing time, and it's easy for a rookie to get down on himself.
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Dec.17,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
Captaincy on a hockey team is not something that's thrown about recklessly. A coach chooses to award such an honor based on a number of criteria, none more important than a player's leadership qualities.
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Dec.15,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
When you are sitting in second place and have games in hand on the division leader, you had better take care of your business when you have the opportunity to do so
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Dec.14,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
If the other team can't get the puck out of its own zone, it can't score. Basically, the Wheeling Nailers' approach Saturday night was that simple.
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Dec.11,2008
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton rips Norfolk, 7-3
NORFOLK, Va. - It was a good night to be a fomer Wheeling Nailer.
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Dec.11,2008
Puhalski says the battle for jobs is toughest in sports
In hockey circles, goaltenders are known to be a bit quirky.
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Dec.10,2008
Goebel, Darling recalled to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
Here's where we find out what the Wheeling Nailers are made of.
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Dec.6,2008
Wheeling reaches 700 franchise victories
DAYTON, Ohio - The Wheeling Nailers picked up an impressive 5-2 victory on the road
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Dec.4,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
It was beginning to get to the point where even the Wheeling Nailers themselves had to be wondering what it was going to take to emerge from a shootout victorious.
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Dec.3,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
When things are going well, coaches often times will find something - anything - to label an area where improvement is needed. That may be the case right now with Wheeling Nailers coach Greg Puhalski.
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Nov.30,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Nov.30,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
From the time he arrived as coach of the Wheeling Nailers last January, Greg Puhalski has asked very little of his players.
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Nov.29,2008
Schwartz and Otten to Be Honored
There is still a segment of the population that either doesn't understand the game of hockey, or plain doesn't want to. But nobody can dispute what the Wheeling Nailers have meant to the Ohio Valley.
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Nov.20,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
Most goalies would be thrilled with one loss in seven starts, especially playing for a team that has been in first place nearly all of the first month
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Nov.15,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
ELMIRA, N.Y. - The Wheeling Nailers rebounded from their first regulation defeat of the season by scoring three unanswered goals on the road to defeat Elmira 4-1 on Saturday at First Arena.
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Nov.15,2008
WTRF 7
Elmira , NY -- The Wheeling Nailers bounced back from their first regulation-loss of the year with a complete
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Nov.14,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
The Wheeling Nailers have made a habit of starting quickly in games then seemingly falling asleep. Friday night at WesBanco Arena
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Nov.11,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
Wheeling Nailers coach Greg Puhalski is not the type of guy who really cares about streaks or individual awards
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Nov.10,2008
ECHL.com
Going 1-0-2 at Mississippi, Wheeling improved to 6-0-4 and remains atop the ECHL with 16 points and a winning percentage of .800.
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Nov.8,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
BILOXI, Miss - Wheeling Nailers forward Rob Sirianni ended Saturday's game against the Mississippi Sea Wolves the same way he began it, with a goal.
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Nov.7,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
BILOXI, Miss. - Frederik Cabana crossed from left to right and then lifted a shot over and obviously irritated David Brown's right shoulder in the fourth round of the shootout Friday night
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Nov.7,2008
The awards keep rolling in for Wheeling Nailers forward Tommy Goebel. One day after being named the PaySource USA ECHL Plus Performer of the month, the rookie from Ohio State has been selected as the CCM TACKS ECHL Player of the Month.
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Nov.5,2008
ECHL.com
PRINCETON, N.J. - Wheeling Nailers rookie right wing Tommy Goebel is the PaySourceUSA ECHL Plus Performers of the Month for October after leading the league in October with a plus-minus rating of +10.
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Nov.3,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
Like many others in the United States, Wheeling Nailers coach Greg Puhalski couldn't decide who to choose on Election Day.
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Nov.2,2008
By SHAWN RINE, Ohio Sports Editor
There was the thought both here and inside the Wheeling Nailers organization that the call-up of a winger, presumably either Nick Johnson or Tommy Goebel,
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Nov.1,2008
WTOV 9
The Wheeling Nailers improved their league best record to 5-0-1 with a dominating 6-1 win over the previously undefeated Dayton Bombers (3-1-0) Friday night at WesBanco Arena.
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Nov.1,2008
Johnson has 4-point night in 6-1 victory
It wasn't a good night to be a trend at WesBanco Arena. Unless of course you're a puck, in which case you still found yourself on a Wheeling stick, and soon after in the back of the net.
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Nov.1,2008
WTRF 7
WHEELING -- The Wheeling Nailers still have not lost a game in regulation this season, after a 3-2 shootout loss against the Johnstown Chiefs at Wesbanco Arena.
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Oct.31,2008
By SHAWN RINE Ohio Sports Editor
When times were tough and I needed an honest quote, and goodness knows those instances outweighed the pleasant ones the last couple seasons,
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Oct.29,2008
WTOV 9
WHEELING, WV – The Wheeling Nailers, the ECHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins announced today that rookie right winger Tommy Goebel is the In Glas Co Player of the Week for Oct. 20-26.
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Oct.26th,2008
WTRF 7
WHEELING -- Rookie Tommy Goeble scored his first professional hat trick as the Wheeling Nailers defeated the Trenton Devils 5-3 at WesBanco Arena in a Sunday matinee.
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Oct.26th,2008
WTRF 7
WHEELING -- The Wheeling Nailers (3-0-1) suffered their first loss of the season, falling 5-4 in a shootout, against the Trenton Devils at WesBanco Arena.
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Oct.25,2008
Intelligencer
You know things are going well when you allow seven goals in a hockey game and still emerge victorious. Friday night at WesBanco Arena
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Oct.24,2008
WTOV 9
The Wheeling Nailers improved to 3-0 on Friday night with a 9-7 victory over the Cincinnati Cyclones at WesBanco Arena.
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Oct.24,2008
WRTF 7
WHEELING - The Wheeling Nailers improved to 3-0 on Friday night with a 9-7 victory over the Cincinnati Cyclones at WesBanco Arena.
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Oct.24,2008
ECHL
As far as minor-league promotions go, most are gimmicks designed specifically at putting fans in seats.
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Oct.23,2008
NHL.com
It's never easy for a coach to take over a team in the middle of a season
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Oct.21,2008
After winning their first two games for the first time in five years, the Wheeling Nailers are 2-0-0 and tied with Elmira for the North Division lead after opening weekend.
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