ECHL Cincinnati Cyclones

Cyclones Rally In Third, Celebrate In Overtime

Published on May 10, 2008 under ECHL (ECHL)
Cincinnati Cyclones News Release


CINCINNATI - The Cincinnati Cyclones exploded for four third period goals, to erase a three goal lead and force overtime against South Carolina Saturday night. Thomas Beauregard's goal 4:52 into the extra session gave the Cyclones a 5-4 win. The triumph was the first three-goal come-from-behind win in the two seasons that Chuck Weber has been Cincinnati's coach.

Beauregard re-directed a Barret Ehgoetz feed from behind the net for his eighth goal and league-leading fourth game winning goal to end the game.

The win gives the Cyclones a two games to none lead over South Carolina in the best of seven American Conference championship. The winner of this series will advance to the Kelly Cup Finals which will begin Memorial Day weekend. It is the eleventh time in the Kelly Cup playoffs that a team jumped to a 2-0 edge won the series in nine of the previous

A crowd of 4853 watched the contest at U.S. Bank Arena -the second-largest playoff crowd in Cyclones history, behind last night's throng. The weekend had 10,063 fans checking out Cincinnati postseason hockey.

The third game will be Wednesday night at South Carolina. Face off is at 7:05pm and the game can be heard on 96 Rock.

South Carolina scored the only goal of the opening period, as Paul McIlveen tipped in a pass off the right half wall from Steve Pinizzotto.

The second period saw another pair of goals from the Stingrays, as McIlveen netted his second of the night and third of the postseason at 3:20. The lead extended to 3-0, when Chris Chaput scored his fourth playoff goal on a breakaway at 15:22. Cyclones netminder Cedrick Desjardins had his night ended then, turning aside 19 of the 22 shots he faced.

The third period saw Cincinnati score the first three goals to knot the game at 3-3. Olivier Latendresse scored 3:01 into the frame on the power play from Bryan Schmidt and Jason Deitsch. Latendresse scored another power play goal more than six minutes later, at 9:41, from Matt Macdonald and Deitsch. Scott Reynold's fourth goal a minute later, at 10:50, from Thomas Beauregard tied the game.

With the Cyclones shorthanded by two players at 15:23, Andrew Gordon re-established a South Carolina lead with his second goal from Sean Collins and Travis Morin. The Cyclones completed the comeback with David Desharnais' seventh goal from Schmidt and Latendresse.

Beauregard's heroics ended the game and gave the win to goaltender Maxime Daigneault, who entered the game in relief and stopped 14 of the 15 shots he faced.

The series is the first time that a professional sporting conference final has been played in Cincinnati since the Cyclones played in the 2002-03 ECHL's Kelly Cup playoffs. In that series, Cincinnati dropped the first three games of that session-before bouncing back to win three in a row. Atlantic City then won the seventh game and kept the Cyclones one win away from a championship series berth.

This was the second game of the best of seven American Conference Championship series. The winner of this series will meet the winner of the Las Vegas and Utah series for the Kelly Cup championship. The Cyclones (55-12-5) were the North Division, American Conference and Brabham Cup (best overall ECHL regular season record) champions in the regular season. Cincinnati swept Johnstown in four games and knocked off Reading in seven games to get here. South Carolina (47-22-3) has won all three of its best of five series in five games. First, the Stingrays knocked off Augusta, then Gwinnett and then Columbia.

Tickets for all Cyclones games can be purchased at the U.S. Bank Arena box office, all Ticketmaster outlets including select Kroger stores, charge by phone at 513-562-4949 or online at ticketmaster.com. The most up-to-date information and broadcast of the games can be found on our website www.cycloneshockey.com.

Check out the Cincinnati Cyclones Statistics

Share: Facebook | Twitter/X | LinkedIn | Reddit | Email



ECHL Stories from May 10, 2008


The opinions expressed in this release are those of the organization issuing it, and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts or opinions of OurSports Central or its staff.

OurSports Central