Thunder eye 6th straight win at Worcester

GLENS FALLS, N.Y. >> The Adirondack Thunder look to extend their win streak to six games when battling the Worcester Railers in the first of eight November road games on Friday.

The Thunder (7-2) sit atop the ECHL’s North Division standings, four points ahead of second-place Newfoundland, while Worcester (3-3) is currently in sixth.

Adirondack defeated the Railers twice last week by scores of 4-1 and 2-1. League scoring leader James Henry (2 goals, 15 assists ) won the latter contest with a blistering long-range slap shot, with only 74 seconds remaining in regulation.

Henry has recorded at least one point in each of the Thunder’s first nine games to date.

Friday’s contest is the only one on tap for Adirondack this weekend.

Its defensive corps got a boost

Thursday with the return of Kevin Lough, who began the season with the AHL’s Chicago Wolves.

Lough, 26, a Colgate product, played for the Thunder each of the past three years. He first signed with the Wolves on a try-out basis last December before parlaying that into a contract for the rest of the season.

In 45 games for the Wolves, Lough registered 10 points (3g-7a) and a plus-3 rating.

The Thunder have just three home games during the entire month of November, beginning next Friday, (Nov. 9) against Reading.

It will be one of three contests in four days as Adirondack travels to Brampton on Wednesday, and Reading next Saturday, Nov. 10.

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Last Saturday’s Military Appreciation Night auction of special red, white and blue jerseys raised $ 16,220 for three local charities – the Ben Osborn Memorial Fund, Operation at Ease, and the VFW Post 2475 Emergency Relief Fund.

It was the largest jersey auction in the Thunder’s four- year history. More than 4,000 people attended that night’s game.