The Allen Americans are finally playing in front of a home crowd, but their first home dates of the season are in Frisco, not Allen.
The ECHL club's schedule lists both games this week against the Idaho Steelheads at Comerica Center in Frisco. The first was a 10:30 a.m. school-day game on Thursday, Oct. 29, presented by Collin College. The second is Military Night, presented by OrthoTexas, with the puck dropping at 7:10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30.
Single-game tickets for Friday are listed at $29 to $68, with group rates of $25 to $35 a seat for parties of 10 or more. The team's website also offers a separate ticket option for military members.
The Americans do not play in their own building until later in November. The schedule shows "Allen Opening Night," presented by Credit Union of Texas, at 7:10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, against the Kansas City Mavericks at the Credit Union of Texas Event Center, followed by a second game against Kansas City the next night.
Two and two on the road
Allen is 2-2 after four regular-season road games. The club lost its season opener 5-4 at Tulsa on Oct. 17, then won both games of a trip to Boise, beating Idaho 4-3 in overtime on Oct. 23 and 5-2 the next night.
The Americans returned to Tulsa for a Tuesday morning game this week and lost 3-1, even though they outshot the Oilers 42-27, according to the team's recap. Riley Kidney scored Allen's only goal, a short-handed tally set up by Zackary Shantz. It was Kidney's fourth goal of the season, the most on the team, and the club's second short-handed goal of the year.
