Lone Star Brahmas Sweep Rio Grande with 4-0 Shutout
December 12, 2014 - North American Hockey League (NAHL)
Lone Star Brahmas News Release
Lucky 13 was on the mind of the Brahmas faithful as Lone Star wrapped up their weekend series against the visiting Rio Grande Killer Bees. The Brahmas had extended their NYTEX Sports Centre win streak to 12 games on Friday night with a come from behind 4 - 2 win over the Bees.
It took Lone Star less than two minutes to see stuffed animals littering the ice on Teddy Bear Toss Night with Bud Madej continuing his torrid weekend. With the Brahmas on the power play Alexey Solvyev sent the puck from the blue line toSebastian Vidmar at the far dot and he sent it across to Madej at the near hash for a wrister over Ben Johansson's right shoulder. It quickly became a two goal lead whenPat Egan took a pass from Roman Uchyn in the neutral zone, skated it to the left wing and sent a low wrister on net. Johansson flashed out the right skate for a toe save andAJ Vanderbeck jumped on the rebound at 5:39.
With time winding down in the second, Solovyev dug the puck out of the near corner and sent it behind the net to Madej in the far corner. Madej flipped it to Vanderbeck at the blueline and the race was on. AJ skated it into the the right wing circle and with a defender on his back ripped it just under the crossbar. Time of the goal was 19:05.
Lone Star opened the third with another power play marker on a bang bang play deep in the zone. Ludvig Larsson got it started giving the puck to Vidmar deep on the near side. Vidmar out front toOskar Andren who had defenders draped on him but still muscled it past the Bees netminder with only 55 seconds gone in the period.
Lone Star was 2 - 7 on the power play while holding the Killer Bees scoreless on five opportunities. The Brahmas also won the shots on goal battle 23 - 11 with Jake Kupsky turning aside all 11 shots he faced for his first NAHL shutout.
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