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Eagles Win 9th Straight at Home with 4-1 Victory over Thunder

January 11, 2013 - ECHL (ECHL)
Colorado Eagles News Release


LOVELAND, Colo. - The Colorado Eagles earned their 9th straight win at the Budweiser Events Center with a 4-1 victory over the Stockton Thunder in the third of four straight meetings between the teams; they'll face-off again Saturday night. Colorado's league-leading power play provided a pair of goals to aid Adam Brown's 22-save performance.

For the second game in a row -- in his second game back with his hometown team -- A.J Hau opened the scoring. Four and a half minutes in, Hau took a lead pass in the neutral zone from Teegan Moore, used a burst of speed to get behind the defense and put a shot on net. Cody Reichard stopped Hau's shot, but the pursuing defender crashed into the netminder, carrying the puck over the goal line before dislodging the net from its moorings.

The Thunder, however, controlled much of the play in the first period, using an aggressive forecheck that forced Colorado into several turnovers in their own zone. One of those turnovers came 17 minutes in when a pair of Eagles were caught flat-footed just outside their own blue line and Yannick Riendeau picked up the disc, skated into the offensive zone and zipped a shot past Brown to tie the game at 1.

The Thunder spent a lot of time in the Eagles' zone again in the second period, but the Eagles were able to keep Stockton's scoring chances down and the teams ended the period with seven shots apiece.

It looked like the second stanza would go without a goal until Riendeau was called for a double-minor high sticking penalty with 28 seconds left in the period. However, it took Colorado just four to take the lead following a faceoff win in the right circle of the offensive zone when Jason Beatty threw the puck on goal from the point and it got past the Thunder goalie.

Colorado pushed its lead to 3-1 at 6:28 of the final frame, following a long cycle inside the Thunder zone, when Trent Daavettila sent a pass from below the goal line to Kevin Ulanski between the hash marks for a shot into the Stockton cage.

Two and a half minutes later the Eagles were awarded nearly two minutes of a two-man advantage, and although they didn't convert on the power play, they were able to put the puck home just seconds after it ended. The goal resulted when Steve Haddon whacked away at the puck on Reichard's right leg pad, but it didn't go in until a Thunder defenseman accidentally knocked it under his netminder to make it 4-1.

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