Ice Dogs Slip Past Roadrunners 4-3
by Andrew Nordmeier
February 26, 2006 - ECHL (ECHL)
Phoenix RoadRunners
The Long Beach Ice Dogs scored twice in the final 4:53 to steal a 4-3 win over the Phoenix Roadrunners Saturday night at the Long Beach Arena.
Leading 3-2, Sean McAslan tipped a Steve Villenueve shot past Roadrunners netminder Michael Mole on the power play at 15:07 to knot the score at 3-3. Phoenix was shorthanded as Joe Dusbabek was in the penalty box for a cross-checking minor that proved to be costly as it led to McAslan's 19th of the season.
The Ice Dogs (30-18-6) won the game when Cory Urquhart took a pass from Michael Lambert who was behind the Phoenix net and beat Mole with 48.3 seconds left for the eventual game-winning goal, his 14th of the season. Phoenix (18-30-3) pulled Mole for the extra attacker with 28 seconds left but failed to get the puck past Long Beach netminder Mark Scally.
Those two goals offset a strong Phoenix effort in the second period to rally back from being down 2-0 after 20 minutes.
First, Mike Ouellet bagged his ninth goal of the season when he slid a Justin Quenneville rebound behind Scally at 1:43 to make it a 2-1 game. J.F. Soucy picked up his 10th goal of the year at 4:42 when he stuffed the rebound of a Paul Ballantyne shot and tied the score at 2-2. Phoenix took the lead when Ben Knopp poked home another rebound goal past Scally at 6:36 and had the Roadrunners in the lead at 3-2 and forced Long Beach to call a timeout.
Lambert and Christian Larrivee scored less than two minutes apart to open the scoring in the middle of the first period.
Long Beach outshot Phoenix 37-23 and finished 2-of-4 on the power play. Phoenix put up a goose egg in four power play chances against the league's second-best penalty kill.
Phoenix hosts the Utah Grizzlies Sunday afternoon at US Airways Center to close out a three-game in three-night weekend.
Three Stars
3. Lambert-LB Goal and an assist
2. McAslan-LB Goal and an assist
1. Urquhart-LB Game-winning goal
Notes: Phoenix defenseman Shawn Fisher left the bench and missed most of the first period after getting cross-checked by Mac Faulkner. He tried to come back but couldn't return and will be re-evaluated when the team returns to Phoenix...Scally started the last two games in net for Long Beach after starting netminder The Roadrunners are 8-12-2 outside of their division this year...Long Beach outscored Phoenix 12-0 in the first periods of the season series and 31-19 in total...Phoenix finished the eight-game season series 5-of-46 on the power play against the Ice Dogs and with a 1-5-2 mark against Long Beach...Attendance was 4,822
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