Eagles defeat Thunder

Published on October 15, 2011 under ECHL (ECHL)
Stockton Thunder News Release


STOCKTON, Calif. - Goaltender Kyle Jones made 37 saves, Chad Costello scored two goals, and the Colorado Eagles added three more to defeat the Stockton Thunder (0-1-0), 5-2, in front of 6,827 fans at Stockton Arena on Friday.

The Thunder opened the scoring with their first goal of the regular season. The goal was scored by rookie forward Gabriel Levesque at 15:32 of the first period, when he caught a rebound in front of the crease and buried the puck home into the back of the net.

The Colorado Eagles responded with four unanswered goals in the first and third period, starting with a historic goal for the Eagles franchise. At 9:22, Eagle forward Michael Forney scored the first goal Colorado in the ECHL when he flipped the puck over Olivier Roy's glove on the right side of the goal post.

Jon Landry put the Eagles ahead, 2-1 on a wrist shot at 14:01 of the third period when he took a shot from the left point that knifed its way through traffic and past the blocker of Olivier Roy into the net.

About two minutes later into the game the Eagles scored their second goal of the third period when Costello redirected a pass from the left side of the crease and powered the puck home beating Roy on his blocker side.

With just 1:58 left in the game the Eagles where able to get one more goal when a pass was redirected into the net by Chad Costello who got his second goal of the night.

Head coach Matt Thomas pulled the Thunder goaltender Olivier Roy to add an extra attacker.

The plan worked and the Thunder where to not be denied as defensemen Nathan Deck scored a goal with 1:08 left in the game.

Roy, who made 22 saves in the defeat, was pulled once again but Jack Combs added an empty netter with just 30.2 left in the game to seal the teams historic first victory in the ECHL.

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