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Eagles Slipped Up By Oilers in SO; Colorado Gets Point as Winning Streak's Stopped

November 13, 2010 - Central Hockey League (CHL)
Colorado Eagles News Release


LOVELAND, Colo. - For the third game in a row, the Colorado Eagles had to go to a shootout to decide a game, but this time they lost, 4-3, to the Tulsa Oilers. The defeat ended Colorado's eight-game winning streak, and snapped Tulsa's eight-game losing streak. Tulsa's win was set up by an opportunistic second period in which they scored three goals on just eight shots.

The opening frame saw plenty of special teams play with the teams combining for 69 penalty minutes (33 for Tulsa, 36 for Colorado). The Eagles got on the board first with their first shorthanded goal of the season at 2:27. On the play, Scott May won the draw cleanly from the left faceoff circle in Colorado's defensive zone, knocking it all the way into the neutral zone where Daymen Rycroft won a foot race before snapping a shallow-angle shot past Tyler Sims.

May helped make it 2-0 for Colorado at 9:41 after receiving a Kevin Ulanski pass in the left circle of the offensive zone and delaying enough to find Adam Hogg crashing down the slot for a wide open one-timer on the power play.

Then, at 15:56, a mini-brawl erupted when Chris Hau confronted Tyler Fleck and the two ended up in the corner to the left of Sims. Sims came to the defense of his team's captain -- jumping on Hau's back -- and was soon tangled up with Andrew Penner who had skated the length of the ice to pull Sims off of Hau. All four players ended up receiving penalties, with both goaltenders being ejected from the game (Sims was replaced by Ian Keserich, Penner by Kyle Jones).

Colorado out-shot Tulsa 23-8 in the second period -- tying the 5th-most shots in a period in franchise history -- but couldn't beat Keserich, despite a pair of power plays in the first half of the frame. And after Dylan Stanley had a goal waved off midway through, momentum shifted and the Oilers scored three goals in a span of two minutes and fifty-two seconds to take a 3-2 lead.

Jack Combs got Tulsa on the board at 11:03 after taking the puck down the left wing, cutting across the ice toward the net and backhanding a shot that slipped past Jones. Then, at 13:21, Chad Costello snapped a shot past the Eagles' goalie for a power-play goal -- just Tulsa's fourth on the road all season. And 34 seconds after that, an unchecked Michel Beausoleil put home a Derek Eastman rebound from the doorstep to give Tulsa the lead.

The Oilers continued to carry momentum into the third -- out-shooting Colorado 12-9 -- but the resilient Eagles were clutch yet again, tying the game with 3:21 left. On the goal, Ulanski won a faceoff in the right circle back to Rycroft who had his point shot deflected by May to knot the score at 3.

In the overtime period, Colorado couldn't convert on a power play chance, getting just one shot through and having several blocked. In the shootout, Ulanski was the only Eagles shooter to score, while Combs and Costello converted for Tulsa to earn the win.

The Eagles will take on the Mississippi RiverKings Saturday night at the Budweiser Events Center.

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