Ice Dogs Blank Gulls In Season Opener, 3-0
Published on October 23, 2004 under ECHL (ECHL)
San Diego Gulls News Release
LONG BEACH, Calif. â The San Diego Gulls have owned the Long Beach Ice Dogs the last two seasons. But it was the Ice Dogs' night Friday, as they beat their Southern California rivals 3-0 in the season opener.
San Diego (0-1-0) entered the night with a 23-game unbeaten streak against the Ice Dogs, who last beat the Gulls in regulation on Oct. 26, 2002. But a strong power play and solid defensive corps ended the two-year drought, not to mention spoiled the head coaching debut of Martin St. Amour.
Marco Rosa led the way for Long Beach (1-0-0) with a goal and an assist. Netminder Chris Madden wasn't tested much, but was perfect when called upon, stopping all 31 shots.
Long Beach drew first blood 8:33 into the first period as Joe Cardarelli put home a power-play goal. The play was set-up by Rosa, who skated the puck behind the San Diego net. But instead of wrapping all the way around the net, Rosa dropped a pass to the near post, where Cardarelli banged it past Mathieu Chouinard.
Evan Cheverie notched another power-play marker 2:34 into the second, giving the Ice Dogs a two-goal cushion. Cheverie grabbed the puck along the right wing boards, cut around the San Diego defense and snapped a wrister over Chouinard's left shoulder.
The Ice Dogs had another chance with the man advantage late in the second, but only the stingy goaltending of Chouinard kept it a 2-0 game. On the other side the Gulls had a handful of offensive opportunites, but couldn't get anything past Madden.
Rosa put the game out of reach midway through the third period, taking advantage of a Gulls turnover. San Diego tried to skate the puck out of its zone, but Rosa stole it and buried a wrist shot.
Notes: The Gulls are now 22-1-1 in their last 24 games against Long Beach... They are 36-11-2 all-time against the Ice Dogs... San Diego is 7-3-0 all-time in season openers and 5-3-2 in road openers... The Blue and Orange were shutout only twice last season... Sylvain Deschatelets, recovering from off-season wrist surgery, was placed on the 30-day injured list... Rookie Sean Murphy was placed on the seven-day injured list with a sore groin...
San Diego opens the home schedule Saturday against the Fresno Falcons with game-time scheduled for 7:05 pm. Rally towels, brought to you by ROCK 101 KGB (101.5 FM), will be presented to first 10,000 fans in attendance.
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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