Gulls Weekly Update

Published on October 25, 2004 under ECHL (ECHL)
San Diego Gulls News Release


SAN DIEGO –– The 2004-05 season is officially underway and the San Diego Gulls have already experienced both a positive and negative result. They opened the season Friday with a shutout loss in Long Beach, but came home Saturday to wallop the Fresno Falcons.

It all started Friday night at the Long Beach Arena against the Ice Dogs, a team San Diego has more than had its way with over the last two seasons. The Gulls came into their opening night match-up with a 23-game unbeaten streak against the Dogs. But a brand new Long Beach team halted the streak.

The Gulls were back on their home ice Saturday night and completely turned things around. San Diego erupted for seven goals, four of which came on the power play, and ran away with its first win of the season.

WEEK IN REVIEW:

Oct. 22 @ Long Beach:

Chris Madden stopped all 31 shots and Marco Rosa notched a goal and an assist, leading the Ice Dogs to a season-opening 3-0 shutout win. Joe Cardarelli started the scoring with a power-play goal midway through the first period before Evan Cheverie notched another power-play marker early in the second. Rosa put the game away halfway through the third period.

Oct. 23 vs. Fresno:

In front of the seventh largest crowd in franchise history (11,922), the Gulls rebounded and blasted the Falcons, 7-2. Rookie Guillaume Fournier led the offensive attack with two goals and three assists, his first five points as a professional. Max Birbraer, Andrew Canzanello and Brian Gornick each chipped in with three points. Trevor Koenig turned aside 24 of 26 shots, en route to San Diego's first win of the season.

PLAYER NOTES:

Colin Embley, Darren Partch and Stephane St. Amour were all released... Sylvain Deschatelets, recovering from off-season wrist surgery, remains on the injured list... Rookie defenseman Sean Murphy was placed on the seven-day injured list with a sore groin...

TEAM NOTES:

The Gulls are 7-3-0 all-time in season openers, 5-3-2 in road openers and 9-0-1 in home openers... They had their 23-game unbeaten streak against the Long Beach Ice Dogs snapped on Friday... San Diego is now 22-1-1 in its last 24 games against Long Beach... The Gulls, who were blanked Friday 3-0, were shutout only twice last season...

The Gulls now head to Anchorage for a three-game series against the Alaska Aces, who eliminated them in last season's playoffs. San Diego and Alaska lock horns Friday and Saturday at 8:15 p.m. PDT and Halloween Sunday (Oct. 31) at 6:05 p.m. PST. The Blue and Orange will also play the Aces when they return home on Wednesday Nov. 3, which is a "Win-Win" night. If the Gulls win on Nov. 3, fans can exchange their ticket for a FREE ticket to the Thursday Nov. 4 game. WE WIN, YOU WIN.

All games can be heard live on KLSD 1360AM and www.sandiegogulls.com with Chris Ello calling the play-by-play. All home games and many road games can be viewed on the Gulls' web site, courtesy of B2 Networks. Click the B2 Networks link on the home page for a list of the upcoming telecasted games.

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