Ice win 3-2
May 10, 2014 - United States Hockey League (USHL)
Indiana Ice News Release
It was "The Silencing of the Bells Goal". Joe Sullivan scored the game-winning goal 6:49 into the second overtime as the cowbell-yielding fans of the Waterloo Black Hawks went home in silence as the Indiana Ice did exactly what they had to do in their best-of-five Clark Cup series in Waterloo - they cancelled out the Black Hawks home-ice advantage with a split with a 3-2 victory.
Sullivan's tally sends the series back to Indianapolis for games three and four and a chance to close out with the USHL championship on their own ice. The 5'-10" forward capped a 62-shot shooting spree with a wrap-around goal and 20 minutes of the first overtime failed to decide the affair.
The Ice was forced to play catchup after the hosts took a 2-1 lead with a short-handed score 39 seconds into the third period. Tyler Sheehy potted the "shortie" with Indy skating with the man advantage.
Mitch Hults answered for Indiana when he picked a waist high shot out of the air and redirected the puck past Waterloo goaltender Cal Peterson with assists from Patrick Newell and Austin Kosack.
An unlucky carom off the crossbar kept the Ice from grabbing a victory with 15 seconds remaining before the final horn. Brian Pinho hit iron and did not receive a friendly bounce. His near clincher came after the visitors were forced to kill a Black Hawks power play at 16:42.
The teams skated to the second intermission with the scored tied at one-all. Despite a dominating performance by holding the hosts without a shot on goal for the first 8:11 of the middle period, the Western Division champions were able to tie the score on a power play goal by Tyler Sheehy.
Despite a fierce fore-checking and back-checking strategy and a shots-on-goal advantage of 24-8, Indiana skated into the third period frustrated without a lead.
Indy came out of the gate playing fast and overwhelming puck possession, only Josh Jacobs was able to dent the net. His power play score came after a clean face off win by Newell in the Waterloo defensive zone. Kosack received the puck from Newell and fed Jacobs at the blue line.
The lamplighter was his second in two nights and came at 9:15 of the first period.
After outshooting the Hawks 15-7 in the opening 20 minutes and 14-8 in the second, the Ice improved their defensive performance after allowing 21-Hawks shots through 40 minutes in Friday's 4-2 loss.
Jason Pawloski stopped 32-shots to earn the win in net.
Game three will be played Friday at Pan Am Pavilion and followed by game four Saturday. The puck drops for both contests at 7:05 pm.
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