Home Ice Dominance: Devils Top Chiefs, 6-3
January 22, 2010 - ECHL (ECHL)
Trenton Devils News Release
Trenton, NJ, January 22, 2010 - Dan Charleston led the Devils to a 6-3 win over the Chiefs, scoring the eventual game winner and adding three assists in just his second game with Trenton. The goal was the rookie's first professional tally after 43 as a collegian. Ryan Ginand scored Trenton's first two goals, shorthanded and on the power play, also adding an assist in the win. The largest home crowd of the season, 3,682, watched the Devils' strongest offensive performance at SunCenter this season. Gerald Coleman (8-7-3-4) made 22 saves opposite John Murray (2-9-2-0) who made 28.
After a non-stop first seven minutes to open the game, the Chiefs started their first of seven power plays, but with 30 seconds left in Jack Comb's holding the stick penalty, Tim Kunes sent an aerial pass out of the zone over the heads of the Johnstown defenders. Ginand collected in full flight and wired the puck to the back of the goal, low on Murray's glove side for a 1-0 lead at 9:48. Bryan Marshall tied the score 1-1 on a rebound from a sharp angle at 13:42, an even strength goal just seven seconds after a Jeff Prough hooking penalty had expired.
Trenton and Johnstown traded goals just over a minute and a half apart starting with Ginand's second of the game at 16:28. Murray over-pursued the puck in the trapezoid during a penalty kill and flubbed a clearing effort right to Ginand for a wraparound goal on a wide-open cage. Troy Schwab scored at 18:02, finding the puck in the slot for the wide-open snapshot goal, ending the first at 2-2.
Trenton scored four consecutive goals in the second for a 6-2 lead. Tony Zancanaro started the onslaught at 1:46 on a two-on-one with Brett Wilson. Using Wilson as a screen, Zancanaro had space on the right wing to fire the puck past Murray's glove side for a 3-2 Devils advantage, with the lone assist for Andy Thomas.
Charleston marked the score sheet on the final three Devils goals, scoring at 12:45 of the second on a poised, left-point blast, assisted by Jeff Prough. The University of Nebraska-Omaha graduate then contributed the primary assist on the Devils' last two goals of the game, first using excellent vision to find Slavomir Tomko at 14:53 and the sixth and final Trenton goal to Trevor Kell at 15:19.
Johnstown scored the lone tally in the third, a power play goal by Jim McKenzie on a pretty backhand deke at 3:07.
The Devils (14-19-4-5) extend their lead over the Chiefs (10-22-5-3) in the East and have now taken five of six against Johnstown this season. The Devils travel to Florida for three games starting on January 27 before returning home to host Johnstown one final time on February 3. The Chiefs will host the Devils on February 19 and 20, the final two meetings between the teams this regular season.
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