Bombers Fall in Shootout 3-2 to Wheeling
December 28, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL)
Dayton Bombers News Release
FAIRBORN - The energy...the effort...the offense - it was all there. The win, however, was not.
Despite outshooting the visitors 54-25, the Dayton Bombers fell 3-2 in a shootout to the first-place Wheeling Nailers in front of a crowd of 6,557 at the Nutter Center Sunday, Dec. 28.
"I can't fault the effort of the guys tonight," Bombers coach Bill McDonald said. "You'd like to get two points but we'll take one."
The Nailers opened the scoring late in the first period with a goal by defenseman Elgin Reid to give the visitors a 1-0 lead at intermission.
Dayton right wing Ryan Smyth quickly knotted the game, 1-1, in the opening minutes of the second period but the Nailers answered with a goal on a deflection minutes later to take a 2-1 lead.
The aggressive Bombers offense pelted Wheeling goaltender Curtis Darling with a flurry of successive shots midway through the period but the Nailers netminder denied five consecutive shots, even after he dropped his stick.
The Bombers, however, continued to battle. Dayton forward Danny Lapointe pushed the puck into the net through a pile of bodies in the crease to tie it up 2-2 at the 9:47 mark. Dayton outshot Wheeling 23-8 in the second period but it was even, 2-2, on the scoreboard at the break.
After 20 more minutes of hockey and a combined 21 shots, it was still deadlocked forcing a four-on-four overtime. The Bombers fired eight shots at Darling in the extra period but were denied every time.
Neither team has had much shootout success as the Bombers were 1-2 and the Nailers 1-4 going into Sunday, with Wheeling's only win coming in Dayton in November. Only Nailers forward Andrew Lord found the net Sunday giving Wheeling its fourth win in five games.
"Wheeling is a little thin and we kept at it," McDonald said. "We could play this game on another night and it would be 7-1 but their goalie won them the game tonight."
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