Ice Storm Tri-City
February 15, 2014 - United States Hockey League (USHL)
Indiana Ice News Release
If it was a prize fight, they would have stopped it in the second period. The Indiana Ice tied a franchise record with a five-goal second period as they clobbered the Tri-City Storm 6-0 Saturday at Pan Am Pavilion.
The victory marked the third time in the last four games Ice goaltenders Jason Pawloski and Hayden Stewart pitched a shutout.
"During the second period, it was hard to stay sharp with so little action in front of my net," commented Pawloski who improved to 21-5-5 between the pipes after stopping all 15 visitor shots. "The guys did a great job in front of me."
The five lamplighters were scored in less than 10 minutes with several skaters enjoying a point-scoring frenzy in the middle 20 minutes. Brian Pinho had a pair of second period goals while Jacob Pritchard and Denis Smirnov both had a pair of assists in the 10-minute scoring explosion.
After jabbing the Storm with Patrick Newell's 10th goal of the season in the first period (Mitch Hults and Sam Kurker assisting), Indy delivered the haymaker in the middle frame starting with Dwyer Tschantz starting the assault at 2:34 with an assist from Smirnov.
Vince Pedrie made it 3-0 on a power play goal less than a minute later. Josh Jacobs and Pritchard assisted at 3:23.
Pinho scored his pair of goals at the 6:20 and 11:28 mark. Pritchard helped again and Tyler Andrew was credited with an assist on Pinho's first goal and Aidan Muir notched a point on his second tally.
"We set out to play like we did last night from the first minute. In the second, we came at them and buried them," stated Pinho after increasing his goal-scoring total to 15 markers on the season. "I got two good passes from my line mates tonight."
A Ryan Mantha power play goal at 11:57 sent Indiana into the second period intermission holding their 6-0 advantage. Tri-City still had not put a shot on goal to this point and only managed one shot the entire 20-minutes of the middle stanza. The host dominated with 18 shots on two Storm goaltenders.
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