ECHL Florida Everblades

Everblades Edge Charlotte 3-2 In A Shootout

Published on February 4, 2010 under ECHL (ECHL)
Florida Everblades News Release


(Charlotte, NC - February 4) Perseverance was the name of the game for the Florida Everblades Thursday night in their 4-3 shootout win over the Charlotte Checkers at Time Warner Cable Arena. Ross Carlson scored a pair of goals in regulation, and Chris Beckford-Tsue stopped seven of eight Charlotte shots in the shootout to help the Everblades take the first game of a two-game set. Milan Gajioc tallied the other Florida goal in regulation, while Colin Nicholson and Mathieu Roy scored for the Everblades in the shootout.

Florida (24-17-2-4) never led in the game but fought back three times, which included overcoming a two-goal deficit. Beckford-Tsue made 36 saves in regulation and overtime, and after yielding a shootout goal by Aaron Slattengren in Charlotte's first attempt, stopped seven straight. David Marshall scored twice in regulation for the Checkers. Charlotte goalie Ryan Munce made 28 saves in regulation and overtime to take the loss.

Neither team scored in the first period in an evenly played 20 minutes. Charlotte outshot the Everblades 9-7 while each team had a power-play opportunity.

After the Everblades stopped an initial Checkers' power-play in the second period, Charlotte (24-15-3-3) scored a pair of goals in a 2:30 span to build a two-goal lead. After killing off an initial penalty five minutes into the second period, Florida went right back to the penalty box thirty seconds later. Ethan Graham's power-play goal, a slapshot from the point at 7:48, gave the Checkers a 1-0 lead.

Charlotte built its' lead to 2-0 at 10:17 when Marshall beat Beckford-Tseu from deep in the left wing circle. The Everblades, after failing to capitalize on a two-on-one and a breakaway in the period, finally got on the board at 13:51. Carlson backhanded a rebound by Munce from in close, off helpers from Roy and Scott Hotham, to cut the Checkers lead to 2-1.

Beckford-Tseu was busy in the second period, facing 20 shots and making 18 saves. Munce faced ten shots making eight saves, as Charlotte outshot Florida 20-10 in the stanza.

Early in the third period after the Checkers failed on a breakaway from Mike Taylor, the Everblades tied the game three minutes into the period. Brad Zanon's hard shot from the right point was stopped by Munce. Gajic, left unattended in front of the Charlotte goal, backhanded the rebound in to knot the game at 2-2.

The Checkers took a brief 3-2 lead with two minutes left in the game on Marshall's second goal of the contest. But thirty eight seconds later Carlson launched a 45-foot shot that eluded Munce, tying the game at 3-3 with 1:29 to play in regulation. The third period ended with no further scoring, and the teams went to the five-minute, sudden-death overtime session.

Each team had a brief power play in overtime, but neither could score as the contest went to the shootout where the Everblades prevailed two goals to one. The two teams will conclude their two-game set Friday at Time Warner Cable Arena at 7:00 p.m.

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