CHL Colorado Eagles

Eagles Start Road Trip With OT Win

January 29, 2010 - Central Hockey League (CHL)
Colorado Eagles News Release


TULSA, Okla. - The Colorado Eagles began their seven-game road trip with a 4-3, overtime victory against the Tulsa Oilers. Kevin Ulanski -- the league's leading point producer -- padded his total with a three point night (2-1-3) and Aaron Schneekloth scored the game-winner with a power-play goal just 35 seconds into overtime to keep the Eagles atop the Northern Conference.

Both teams scored a goal in the first period to enter the intermission with a tied score. Ulanski got the opening goal at 3:32 with a power-play blast from the right point. But the Oilers answered at 9:13 when Aaron Davis sent a pass from below the goal line to an open Jeff Gumaer in front of Mike Mole for an uncontested shot.

The Eagles got an early goal in the second period, but the Oilers added two midway through to take a 3-2 lead into the third period. Just 31 seconds into the second stanza, Ed McGrane took a feed in the slot from Brett Lutes and made it 2-1 for the visitors by beating Trevor Cann.

Then at 13:42, Davis tied it back up with Tulsa on a two-man advantage. The veteran forward's cross-crease pass attempt deflected off of Schneekloth and into the net. And just over three minutes later, TJ Caig made it 3-2 coming out of the penalty box. The Oilers' leading scorer was sent on a breakaway coming out of the sin bin and, after Mole stopped his initial shot, Caig reached back and was able to tap his rebound over the goal line.

The game continued to be tightly contested in the third and Ulanski got his second score of the game to tie it up again at 3. At 7:59, Riley Nelson and Ulanski teamed up on the penalty kill when the latter bobbled the puck heading behind the net, picked it back up and tucked it inside the post before the Oilers' goalie could get back. True to form, the game would go into overtime with each team registering the same amount of shots at 31.

But it would take the Eagles only one more shot -- and just 35 more seconds -- in the extra session to end it when Schneekloth scored on a 5-on-3 power play that had carried over from regulation, with a shot from inside the left faceoff circle.

Colorado continues its long road trip with a game Saturday against the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs.

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