Bruins double up Pack
Published on November 23, 2008 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Connecticut Whale News Release
Providence RI, November 23, 2008: Vladimir Sobotka scored two goals, including the game-winner, and Martin St. Pierre added a goal and two assists to lead the Providence Bruins to a 6-3 victory over the Hartford Wolf Pack Sunday at the Dunkin' Donuts Center Providence, in the first of eight meetings on the year between the two clubs.
Jeff Penner and Peter Schaefer also chipped in a goal and an assist apiece for Providence, Brad Marchand had three assists, and Johnny Boychuk registered a pair of helpouts.
The loss dropped the Wolf Pack back to the .500 mark on the season, 8-8-0-2 for 18 points.
Sobotka, who played 48 NHL games with Boston last season, opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 6:53 of the first period. Sobotka pushed the rebound of Boychuk's shot toward the net, and Wolf Pack goaltender Matt Zaba inadvertently knocked the puck across the goal line with his skate. The second Providence goal came five seconds after a penalty to Corey Potter expired, as Zach Hamill beat Zaba from a sharp angle, shooting from the left-wing circle.
It took the Wolf Pack only 13 seconds to answer Hamill's goal. Devin DiDiomete took a pass from David Urquhart and snapped a shot off right wing past Providence netminder Kevin Regan. It was DiDiomete's second goal in two games, after he went without a point in the first nine games of his pro career. Wolf Pack scoring leader P.A. Parenteau tied the score at two with his 10th goal of the season at 4:01 of the second period, on a five-on-three power play. A shot by Bobby Sanguinetti went wide of the net, but Parenteau was able to control the puck after it caromed off the end boards and lift it behind Regan.
The Bruins regained the lead at 11:50 of the second, on Penner's second goal of the year. After Marchand and St. Pierre forechecked to keep the puck in the Hartford zone, Penner's shot from the left-wing boards hit a Wolf Pack defender in front of the goal and deflected through Zaba's legs.
Providence broke the game open with two goals in a 30-second span in the third period, starting at 6:28. Martins Karsums chipped the puck out of his own zone to Sobotka, behind the Wolf Pack defensive pairing of Brian Fahey and Vladimir Denisov. Neither Hartford blueliner was able to catch Sobotka, who beat Zaba on a breakaway for a 4-2 Providence lead. Then, in a delayed-penalty situation at 6:58, Schaefer deflected in a centering pass to make it 5-3.
The Wolf Pack got a goal back at 12:39, as rookie Dale Weise tapped the puck in after a strong rush by fellow first-year man Justin Soryal, but St. Pierre, who was +4 on the day, restored the three-goal margin at 16:21. St. Pierre's tally came from the right-wing circle, off of a pass from Jordan Knackstedt.
Hartford outshot its hosts 30-25 in the contest, the Wolf Pack's fourth in five days, but Regan made 27 saves as the Providence penalty-kill went 8/9. The defeat snapped a two-game road winning streak for the Pack, which had downed division-leading Portland Saturday night, 6-2.
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