Aeros Drop One to Wolves, 4-1

Published on March 25, 2012 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Houston Aeros News Release


CHICAGO --- Jeff Taffe scored and Scottt Greenham stopped 28 shots in goal but the Houston Aeros fell 4-1 to the Chicago Wolves on Sunday at the Allstate Arena.

Taffe gave Houston a 1-0 lead at the 5:16 mark of the first period. Jon DiSalvatore and David McIntyre assisted on Taffe's 17th goal of the season.

The loss pushed the Aeros out of the No. 4 spot in the AHL's eight-team Western Conference playoff race, where they will finish the day no worse than the No. 6 seed with nine games remaining in the regular season. Division-winners get the top three seeds in the Calder Cup Playoffs. Houston sits 15 points behind West Division leader OKC and are gunning for the No. 4 seed in the Conference. Chicago leads the Midwest Division by four points over Charlotte and currently holds the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference.

Chicago's Darren Haydar tied the game at 15:21 of the first, and Mark Mancari notched the eventual game-winner at the 5:27 mark of the second period with a power play goal. Yann Sauve added a goal 3:47 into the third to make it a 3-1 Wolves lead, and Bill Sweatt tacked on an empty-netter with 27 seconds left in the game. Matt Climie made 20 saves in goal.

The Aeros wrap up their current four-game road trip at Milwaukee on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Bradley Center.

BOMB DROPPINGS

Forward Chad Rau was recalled by the Minnesota Wild earlier in the day and met the team in Washington, D.C. to play against the Capitals... Forward Chris Clackson played against his brother Matt, a winger for the Wolves. They were teammates at Western Michigan University... Jon DiSalvatore has assists in two-straight games... Jeff Taffe has goals in two straight.

NEXT GAME

Wednesday at Milwaukee (7 p.m. CST)

RECORDS

HOU: 31-24-3-9

CHI: 37-25-2-3

GOAL SCORERS

HOU: Taffe

RFD: Haydar, Mancari, Sauve, Sweatt

AEROS STARTERS

F - DiSalvatore, Taffe, McIntyre

D - Fredheim, Cuma

G - Greenham

AEROS SCRATCHES

Penner, Mignardi, Foucault, Fallon, Kuemper

DECIDING GOAL

Mancari (5:27, 2nd)

POWER PLAYS

HOU: 0/4

CHI: 1/4

GOALIES

HOU: Greenham (28/31)

CHI: Climie (20/21)

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