Falcons Rally Falls Just Short
Published on October 23, 2010 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Springfield Falcons News Release
The Springfield Falcons once again battled back from a 2-0 deficit, but Saturday fell just short losing to the Manchester Monarchs 3-1 at the MassMutual Center. The Falcons now have a record of 4-4 through eight games as they will now be off from game action until Friday, October 29 when they travel to Hartford.
"We want to find a way to play a full 60 minutes, I know it's a cliche but that's something we have to do moving forward," said Falcons forward Chad Kolarik. "We battled back hard, but we can't keep falling behind, we have a good team here and we will keep working hard."
For the second straight night, the Falcons didn't quit after falling behind in the game and continued to try and find the equalizer. Manchester opened the scoring at 16:50 of the first period when Thomas Hickey scored his first goal of the year giving the Monarchs a 1-0 lead through 20 minutes of play.
With the Falcons on the power play early in the second period, Justin Azevedo picked up a lose puck at the Falcons blueline and skated in alone on David LeNeveu and slid a backhand past the Falcons goaltender just 36-seconds into the middle stanza giving Manchester a 2-0 lead.
Midway through the second period, the Falcons ended up on a power play when Manchester's John Zeiler was whistled for major penalty for checking from behind when he connected with Springfield defenseman Jonathan Sigalet. The Falcons did use the man advantage to cut into their deficit when Chad Kolarik converted on the man advantage at 13:24 of the middle period pulling the Falcons to within one goal heading into the third period.
In the final period, LeNeveu and Manchester goaltender Jeff Zatkoff exchanged saves as both goaltenders played very well on this evening.
"I thought both goalies played well," said Falcons head coach Rob Riley. "David (LeNeveu) gave us a chance to win and made some really nice saves to keep us at 2-0 for a while, Zatkoff was solid for them as well, we had some chances and he made the stops."
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