Houston Aeros Fall to San Antonio Rampage 4-3 in Shootout
March 3, 2010 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Houston Aeros News Release
HOUSTON - The Houston Aeros (28-27-6-2) lost a two-goal third period lead and fell 4-3 in a shootout to the San Antonio Rampage (28-25-3-6) in front of 6,459 at the AT&T Center Wednesday night. LW Colton Gillies, D Jamie Fraser and D Maxim Noreau each scored for Houston while G Anton Khudobin (10-14-2) made 29 saves in his second shootout loss of the season. RW Mikkel Boedker scored the game-winner for San Antonio and Rampage G Josh Tordjman (12-14-2) stopped 22 shots to earn the victory. The Aeros hadn't scored the first goal in seven straight and nine of their last 10 games entering Wednesday's game. Gillies broke that streak at the 6:15 mark of the first period. RW Danny Irmen found Gillies alone behind the Rampage net where he threw on the breaks catching Tordjman out of position and stuffed home a wrap-around bid for his sixth of the year. C Chad Rau was credited with the secondary assist.
San Antonio tallied the game-tying goal 2:59 into the middle stanza. C Kyle Turris fired the initial shot that deflected off the end glass and found the stick of RW David Spina behind the Aeros' cage. Spina sent a shot toward the back of Khudobin which was deflected to the ice and over the goal line by LW Brett MacLean.
Houston retook the lead at 7:00 of the third period off a power play goal from Fraser. RW Jon DiSalvatore found the Aeros defenseman in the slot where he whistled a shot on net that deflected off Rampage D Shaun Heshka and past Tordjman for the goal. The goal is Fraser's third in as many games extending his point streak to a season-high five games (3-2=5). Noreau made it 3-1 when his wrister found the twine at 10:09 off helpers from D J.P. Testwuide and DiSalvatore. It's Noreau's third goal in as many games against San Antonio.
The Rampage cut the lead to a goal with 4:49 left in regulation off the stick of Turris, and with 12.3 seconds left in regulation LW Stefan Meyer sent the game to overtime tipping home a point bid from Boedker.
Neither team was able to score in the overtime period and in the end it was Boedker who scored the eventual game-winner in the first round of the shootout. San Antonio outshot the Aeros 33-25. Both clubs scored a power play goal with the Aeros going 1-for-3 on the man advantage and San Antonio converted 1-of-5 chances.
The Aeros host the Rampage Friday night at Toyota Center for their fourth of five straight State Farm Lone Star Faceoff contests. Game time is scheduled for 7:35 pm. and will be televised live on Fox Sports Houston as well as ahllive.com. Communications Manager Robert Desimone will have the call on 1070 AM-KNTH. The Aeros will wear their alternate red sweaters for the third time this season and encourage fans to wear red in support of the team.
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