Edwardson, Vegas Power Past Phoenix 5-2
by Andrew Nordmeier
January 8, 2007 - ECHL (ECHL)
Phoenix RoadRunners
Derek Edwardson was once, twice, three times a goal scorer as his power-play hat trick fueled the Las Vegas Wranglers to a 5-2 win over the Phoenix Roadrunners Saturday night at the US Airways Center. Las Vegas finished 4-of-8 on the power play, the most power play goals Phoenix has allowed in a single game all year.
Aaron Power opened the scoring at 4:04 of the first period when he beat Phoenix netminder Cody Rudkowsky with a slapshot from just inside the blue line. Edwardson pushed the lead to 2-0 at 15:11 with his tenth goal of the season. Lawson made it 3-0 1:57 into the second period and the Wranglers didn't look back.
Phoenix responded with Brock Hooton's seventh of the year at 3:52 of the second period to cut into the deficit at 3-1.
Edwardson struck twice more in the third period on the power play to ice the win for Las Vegas (18-6-7) and end the two-game winning streak Phoenix (18-14-2) was on.
Shots favored Phoenix 45-36. Mike McKenna made 43 saves for Vegas to pick up his 11th win of the season. Rudkowsky was saddled with his sixth loss (5-6-1). Phoenix went 1-of-9 on the power play.
Phoenix has played four games in the last five nights and gets little help from the schedule maker as they host the Idaho Steelheads Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week in a key three-game divisional series.
Three Stars of the Night
3. Lawson-LV Goal and an assist
2. Power-LV PPG and an assist
1. Edwardson-LV Three power-play goals in the win
Notes: Phoenix is now 3-10-0 all-time against Las Vegas including a 2-6-0 mark here at the US Airways Center...Las Vegas has an ECHL best 12-2-5 mark on the road...Las Vegas is 8-1-2-3 when leading after one period and 13-0-1-1 when ahead after two...Eleven of the thirteen games between these two teams have been decided by two goals or less ...Attendance was 4,318.
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