ECHL Atlanta Gladiators

Glads Trumped by Wheeling 7-2

December 10, 2010 - ECHL (ECHL)
Atlanta Gladiators News Release


JOHNSTOWN, PA - The Gwinnett Gladiators dropped their fourth game in a row, falling 7-2 to the Wheeling Nailers at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena.

The Nailers (12-10-0) have now won three in a row, and took it to Gwinnett (12-8-4) early and often Friday night.

Ben Street got the Nailers offense going in the first. The forward scored the first two goals of the game at 1:01 and 8:18, his seventh and eighth of the season to open a quick 2-0 Nailers lead. The second tally came on the powerplay for Wheeling.

Doug Rogers tacked on one more goal at 11:36 to push Wheeling's lead to 3-0 at the end of 20 minutes.

The second period wasn't much better for Gwinnett. Wheeling extended the lead to four on Casey Pierro-Zabotel's third of the year at 11:51.

The Gladiators broke up the shutout at 16:07 on the powerplay as Michael Davies scored his second goal of the year in his first game back in Gwinnett with an assist to Paul Flache. Davies missed 13 games after being called up to Chicago in the AHL. He rejoined the Glads on Thursday.

Trailing 4-1 the Nailers capitalized on another defensive breakdown by Gwinnett. Joey Haddad rifled a shot past Billy Sauer from the slot just :43 seconds after Davies' goal to put the score at 5-1 through two periods.

Just 3:50 into the third Danick Paquette blasted a slapshot past Killeen for his fifth of the season off a feed from Pat Galivan. That was as close as the Glads would get though, as Rogers scored his second of the game at 9:15 and Jason DeSantis made it 7-2 at 12:35 of the third to cap the scoring at 7-2.

Pat Killeen stopped 28 of 30 shots for the win, while Billy Sauer took the loss. Sauer was pulled in favor of Chris Carrozzi to start the third period.

Fitting that in the same arena where the classic hockey movie "Slapshot" was filmed there were three fights in the game. Paul Flache beat down Wheeling Captain Andrew Lord early in the second period, while Cody Brookwell spilt a bout with Lord nearly 15 minutes later and Matt Krug spilt a decision with Ryan Schnell in the third.

Gwinnett is back in action in Johnstown tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. against the Nailers.

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