Anyway you slice it the Allen Americans will have their work cut out for them tonight as they take on the best team in the Mountain Division, the Kansas City Mavericks. The stats don’t lie and they tell a pretty bleak story and it started from the beginning of the season and it has never stopped:

• In Allen’s home opening weekend Kansas City shutout the Americans 4-0 and 9-0.
• Allen is 1-5-0-0 against Kansas City this season.
• Allen scores one goal per game less than KC (2.6 vs 3.6).
• Allen allows 1.6 goals more per game than KC (4.2 vs 2.6).
• Allen takes 5.5 shots fewer per game than KC (28.5 vs 34.0).
• Allen allows 12.9 more shots per game than KC (38.9 vs 26.0).
• Allen’s home record is 6-12-4-0 with 5 of the six wins against Rapid City and Utah.
• Kansas City’s road record is 18-6-0-2, 2nd best in the ECHL.
• Allen has lost three straight games while being outscored 21-5.
• Kansas City is 6-0-1-0 in its last seven games, allowing and average of 1.71 goals per game.

– Positive news is very scant, but there is a little:

• Allen has beaten Kansas City one time all season, but it was the last time these teams

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