IceMen Clobber Greenville in Fight Filled Victory
November 23, 2014 - ECHL (ECHL)
Evansville IceMen News Release
EVANSVILLE, Ind.- The Evansville IceMen, presented by Coors Light, demolished the Greenville Road Warriors in a 6-2 win. Over 4,000 fans flocked to the Ford Center and watched as the IceMen matched their season high in goals and set a new season high with six fights.
Zack Currie, Kevin Harvey, Andre Bouvet-Morrissette, Peter Sakaris, and Brandon Wong all had multi-point games as the IceMen beat the Road Warriors (10-7-0-0, 20 points) for the second time in five nights.With their win the IceMen (6-7-0-1, 13 points) improved to 6-2-0-0 on home ice.
Greenville found the net first. Sam Noreau scored on a slap shot to put the Road Warriors up 1-0.
Evansville answered under two minutes later. Wong capitalized on a Road Warrior turnover and beat Jason Missiaen on breakaway for his fifth goal of the season. Wong's second in as many nights tied it at one.
Just eight seconds later, the IceMen struck again. On the ensuing faceoff, Matt Lowry made a cross ice feed that found Peter Sakaris. Sakaris smacked it home to put the IceMen up 2-1 heading into the second period. Harvey picked up his first assist of the season on Sakaris' third goal.
In the second period, the IceMen built their lead. Andre Bouvet-Morrissette bounced the puck off of a few Road Warriors and into the back of the net for his first goal of the season. Troy Rutkowski, and Wong picked up points on the play that put the IceMen 3-1.
Greenville cut the IceMen lead to 3-2 later in the period. Vinny Saponari fired a shot that hit Chris Driedger in the shoulder and then rolled over his back and into the net.
Less than 30 seconds later Evansville retaliated. Jarret Lukin found Kale Kerbashian on a cross-ice feed and the Thunder Bay, ON native deposited it into the back of the net. Zack Currie added an assist on Kerbashian's fifth of the season. Kerbashian leads the IceMen with 13 points.
Later in the second frame, Harvey sent a feed towards the front of the net that pinballed off of Sakaris' stick to Currie on the other side of the net. Currie knocked in his first of the season to make it a 5-2 IceMen lead heading into the third period.
The clash between the Road Warriors and IceMen escalated in the third period. A total of six fights broke out between the two squads. Two of which involved Kevin Harvey, who emerged victorious in both scraps.
A line brawl also occurred as Guy Lepine, Wong and Kerbashian threw down with Noreau, Shawn O' Donnell, and Ryan Hegarty respectively.
Once all the fighting subsided and everyone was out of the sin bin, Lepine found Wong on a clearing pass. Wong dished to Morrissette who blasted a slap shot past Missiaen to secure a 6-2 win for Evansville.
Chris Driedger picked up his second win of the season against the Road Warriors, by stopping 25 of the shots he faced. He improved to 3-5-0-1 on the season.
Harvey took third star honors with his two-assist and two-fight night. Morrissette took home the second star with his two goals. Wong earned number one star honors with a three-point game against his former squad.
The IceMen will hit the road again Wednesday Nov.26 to battle the Cincinnati and the meet the Elmira Jackals in a black Friday contest in New York. They will wrap up their road trip on Saturday night against Elmira.
Kalamazoo will come calling to Evansville in the IceMen's next home game on Friday Dec. 5. It will be Mascot Night at the Ford Center so drop by and watch area mascots take the ice in a game of broom ball.
Single game tickets are on sale now for all games, including mascot night, at the Ford Center Box Office Monday through Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Get your season tickets now to watch every exciting minute of IceMen hockey during the 2014-15 season at a discounted price. To learn more about becoming a season ticket holder, please call an IceMen Account Executive at (812) 421-GOAL (4625) or go to www.evansvilleicemen.com.
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