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Cyclones Rally Three Times, Come Up Short In 4-3 Shootout

March 21, 2008 - ECHL (ECHL)
Cincinnati Cyclones News Release


JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania - The Cincinnati Cyclones rallied three times from deficits on Friday night, but a shootout goal from Randy Rowe gave Johnstown a 4-3 win on Friday night. Cyclones forward David Desharnais had a goal and an assist in the shootout loss.

Johnstown opened the scoring 1:47 into the opening period, as Kenny Roche notched his fifth goal of the season from Cody Burki and Mark Tobin. The Cyclones knotted the scores at 1-1, as rookie David Desharnais collected his 23rd goal of the campaign at 11:46, from Ryan Russell. Russell, taking the puck off a turnover, tried to twice play the puck to the left wing side-where it was defended both times. The second block wound up on the stick of Desharnais, who fired the puck over the left shoulder of Ryan Nie.

The Chiefs took the lead a second time at 4:04 of the second period as Tobin picked up his sixth goal of the year from former Cyclone Greg Gallagher and Roche. Cincinnati evened the scores at 2-2, when Jason Deitsch picked up his eleventh goal from Desharnias and T.J. McElroy on the power play at 12:24. Johnstown took its third lead of the contest at 15:53, when Andrew Martens collected his eighth goal from Gallagher and Roche on the power play.

The Cyclones netted the lone goal of the third period, as Barret Ehgoetz collected his 18th of the season at 4:28 from Mathieu Aubin and McElroy. Following a scoreless overtime, Randy Rowe netted the lone score of the shootout and gave Johnstown its first win in nine tries against the Cyclones this season.

The Cyclones are 6-0-3 in Johnstown under Head Coach Chuck Weber during his two seasons as Cincinnati's mentor. Johnstown is the only team not to defeat Cincinnati in regulation time on home ice versus Weber's clubs.

The Cincinnati Cyclones are 39 games above .500, with a 49-10-5 record and sole possession of first place in the North Division-22 points ahead of second place Elmira. The win gives Cincinnati a 33-4-3 record since December 15. Johnstown is 31-29-5 and in fourth place in the division. The 49 wins are the most ever by the club. Cincinnati is 8-0-1 versus the Chiefs this season.

The Cyclones are next in action Saturday game at Wheeling at 7:30pm, the game which was scheduled to be on 96 Rock-will not be carried, as the Miami University hockey game in the CCHA finals will be carried in its place.

By winning the North Division, the Cyclones have a bye in the play-in round of the ECHL postseason and will host the winner of the fourth seed-fifth seed, best-of-three series at the end of the regular season. The first game of the best-of-seven series that the Cyclones will play, opens at U.S. Bank Arena on Friday, April 11 at 7:30pm. Game two of that series will occur at U.S. Bank Arena on Saturday, April 12 at 7:30pm.

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.

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