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Eagles Win Second Shootout in a Row

November 11, 2010 - Central Hockey League (CHL)
Colorado Eagles News Release


LOVELAND, Colo. - The Colorado Eagles won their second shootout in a row with a 4-3 topping of the defending champion Rapid City Rush. The victory extends Colorado's winning streak to eight games, perfect since opening night. Thousands of military members -- both past and present -- took in the action in the team's annual Military Appreciation Night game.

The Eagles controlled play for the first part of the opening period, getting out to a 1-0 lead before Rapid City evened the period in the second half to make it a 1-1 tie after the first 20 periods of play.

Six minutes in, Matt Glasser won a race to the puck down the left wing in the neutral zone, chipped it ahead into the offensive zone and sent a nice centering pass to Riley Nelson for the Eagles' captain's sixth goal of the season. Then, at 14:54, Rapid City evened the score with a power-play marker when Derek LeBlanc took the puck out of the left corner and fed Scott Wray for a sweeping shot from below the faceoff circle that beat Kyle Jones.

After seven penalties were called in the first period, the game continued to see plenty of special teams play in the second. Colorado out-shot Rapid City 13-10 in the stanza, but neither team was able to score. The closest either came to a tally was with 1:51 left when Braden Desmet had a goal waved off due to a quick whistle from referee Timm Walsh.

Jamie Vanderveeken put Rapid City on top 2-1, 2:24 into the third period, when his low shot from the point found its way through a three-person screen and past the Eagles' netminder. But Colorado bounced right back, scoring two goals in the following 46 seconds to take a 3-2 lead.

On the first score (just 15 seconds later), Kyle Peto let off a shot from the right point that was kicked below the goal line to the right of the net by Danny Battochio. But Dylan Stanley was right there to collect it and feed Daymen Rycroft with a back-door pass for a shot into a wide open net. Thirty-one seconds later, Nelson found Steve Haddon on an odd-man rush to put Colorado back on top.

Rapid City came hard the rest of the period, but Jones made several big saves in net. But with just 17 seconds left -- and Battochio pulled for an extra attacker -- LeBlanc was able to backhand in a loose puck from the crease to force overtime.

Neither team scored in the extra frame, leading to the shootout -- Colorado's second in a row. In the shootout, Jones stopped all four Rush shooters, while Kevin Ulanski and Scott May converted for Colorado.

The Eagles will take on the Tulsa Oilers in their next game, Friday night at the Budweiser Events Center.

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