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Ice Dogs Trade Goals, Win in Shootout

April 5, 2003 - ECHL (ECHL)
Long Beach Ice Dogs News Release


LONG BEACH, Calif. – The Long Beach Ice Dogs (22-44-4) traded goals with the Fresno Falcons (34-28-9) throughout regulation, but stopped them cold in the shootout for a 5-4 victory Friday night. The two teams face each other again for the Ice Dogs' final home game of the season Saturday night before Long Beach finishes the year in San Diego Sunday.

Long Beach goaltender B.J. Boxma stopped all four Falcon shots in the shootout to keep a perfect 6-0 overtime record. Trent Clark and Chris Peyton scored in the shootout for Long Beach. Boxma (12-12-0) faced 36 shots in regulation, the most he has faced with the Ice Dogs since saving 36 of 37 shots in Fresno on Jan. 19. The win keeps Long Beach out of last place in the league since the Anchorage Aces beat the San Diego Gulls.

The defending Taylor Cup champions answered every goal that the Ice Dogs scored. The sea-saw game started with a Clark power-play goal 9:33 in the first period. Denis Ladouceur's shot careemed off Terry Friesen's pads straight to Clark's stick for an easy goal.

Fresno's Rob Bonneau scored on a rebound at 2:24 in the second period. Long Beach defenseman and captain Peyton gave the Ice Dogs the lead at 5:35 with a slapshot from outside the left faceoff circle. After a goal by Jarret Zukiwsky at 6:49, Tyler Willis scored his first goal of the game at 12:07 with the man advantage. A goal by Kris Porter in nine seconds into a Willis cross-checking penalty at 15:03 tied the game again.

Willis scored his second goal of the night 1:42 in the third period to give Long Beach the lead once more. While sliding on his stomach Willis managed to flick the puck past Friesen (16-18-8) for an amazing goal. Ryan Kiley evened the game for the Falcons at 7:29 to send the game into the shootout.

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