Jones, Daavettila Lead Eagles to Point in Season's First Road Game
Published on October 26, 2012 under ECHL (ECHL)
Colorado Eagles News Release
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah. - The Colorado Eagles & Utah Grizzlies played 13 times last season and eight of the meetings were decided by just a single goal, five times requiring a shootout. The teams picked up right where they left off last year in the Eagles' first road game of the season, as the home team edged the Eagles, 4-3, in another shootout. Kyle Jones stopped 49 shots in the game, the second-most in club history, while Trent Daavettila -- the league's leading scorer over the past three seasons combined -- picked up his first three points as an Eagle.
Utah got off to a quick start in a dominating first frame that saw them out-shoot the Eagles 20-6. The Grizzlies got the game's first goal just over five minutes in following a turnover in the neutral zone that led to a transition rush in which Paul McIlveen put home a back-door feed from Kory Falite. Three minutes later, Trevor Glass made it 2-0 with another goal off a rush, this one coming when he blasted a shot past Jones from the left point.
Colorado turned things around in the second stanza, tying the game at 2 with a pair of power-play goals. Daavettila picked up his first point as an Eagle at 4:17 when he combined with Jack Combs for some tic-tac-toe passing that led to Ray Kaunisto's first goal with Colorado.
Daavettila would get his first goal as an Eagle with six minutes left in the second period when he combined with Combs again as they converted an odd-man rush following a turnover at center ice. At the other end of the rink, Jones was stellar in the second, stopping all 16 of Utah's shots to help send the game into the third period knotted up at 2.
Seven minutes into the third period, Daavettila won a faceoff outside the Eagles' offensive zone and Teegan Moore picked the puck up in the left circle before snapping a shot past Andrew Engelage. But the Grizzlies were able to tie the contest back up at 12:19 when Brad Mills put home a goal from the doorstep, forcing the meeting into a familiar overtime format for the frequent foes.
Utah's penalty-killers came up large in the extra session, successfully squelching two separate Colorado power plays during the first half of the overtime period. The effort helped push the game into a shootout where Engelage stopped four of six Eagles shooters, while Jones stopped three of six Grizzlies.
After coming from behind to net a shootout point in their first road game of the season, Colorado will travel overnight to Las Vegas, Nev. for a meeting Saturday evening against last year's Western Conference champions.
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