Ice Dogs Downed by Falcons in a Shootout, 3-2

Published on December 21, 2002 under ECHL (ECHL)
Long Beach Ice Dogs News Release


LONG BEACH, Calif. – The Ice Dogs winless streak reached seven games Saturday night as Fresno beat Long Beach, 3-2, in a West Coast Hockey League (WCHL) shootout at Long Beach Arena. The last three contests for the Falcons have been decided by a shootout. Long Beach travels to Bakersfield Sunday, Dec. 22.

Long Beach (11-13-2) took an early lead when Pat Brush scored his first goal as an Ice Dog 2:11 in the first period. Newly acquired Michal Pinc registered his first Ice Dogs' point in his second game for setting up Brush's goal. Tyler Willis beat Fresno netminder Mark Gowan (2-2-1) 16:31 in the first to stretch the lead to 2-0.

Long Beach goaltender Mike Buzak (4-7-2) was caught out of the net chasing a puck in the corner when Colin Embley scored for Fresno to make it a 2-1 contest.

Cory Murphy found the back of the net for Fresno at 2:18 in the third to tie the game and send the two teams to their second shootout in as many nights. Long Beach was out shot in the final period 15-4.

J.P. O'Connor scored as the first shooter for Long Beach, and Buzak stopped the first four Falcons he faced, however, Kris Porter sent the shootout into sudden death with his goal. Glen Gulutzan gave Fresno (10-10-3) their second shootout victory against the Ice Dogs. The Ice Dogs were 0-5 with a man advantage and failed to score a power-play goal since Tomas Hradecky scored on Dec. 12, the last Long Beach victory.

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