Late Goal Downs Pack
February 21, 2010 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Connecticut Whale News Release
Bridgeport, CT, February 21, 2010 - Defenseman Brendan Witt's goal with 8:07 left in the third period gave the Bridgeport Sound Tigers a 2-1 win over the Hartford Wolf Pack Sunday afternoon at Bridgeport's Arena at Harbor Yard.
The loss dropped the Wolf Pack back to the.500 mark, at 26-26-3-4 for 59 points, and to four points behind the Sound Tigers in the Atlantic Division standings.
The winning goal came in a four-on-four situation. After Dale Weise was unable to get the puck deep in the Bridgeport zone, the Sound Tigers' Mark Flood worked the puck to center ice to Greg Mauldin, who carried it into the Wolf Pack zone on right wing. Mauldin threw a pass across to Witt, who beat Wolf Pack goaltender Matt Zaba from the left circle.
The goal was Witt's first with the Sound Tigers in nine games, since being assigned to Bridgeport by the New York Islanders.
The first period was scoreless, despite a 9-3 Bridgeport shots advantage. The heaviest pressure on Zaba came on a Bridgeport power-play sequence in the final 1:45. Nigel Williams took a hooking penalty at 18:15 and Dane Byers was sent off for roughing at 19:46, but Zaba and the Wolf Pack were able to get out of the period unscathed.
Their penalty troubles continued early in the second, though, with Jordan Owens being whistled for high-sticking at the 44-second mark, while Byers was still in the box, and this time Bridgeport converted.
Mauldin made Hartford pay for the penalties with his 20th goal of the season, on a drive from the top of the left circle that got by Zaba's glove while the Wolf Pack were still two men short.
The Wolf Pack power play got that one back at 18:19 of the second, as Pack leading scorer Corey Locke tallied his 24th of the season. Locke grabbed the rebound of a Nigel Williams shot along the goal line to the right-wing side of the net and backhanded it in off of Bridgeport goaltender Nathan Lawson.
That was the only one of the Wolf Pack's 22 shots to beat Lawson, though, as Hartford could never answer Witt's third-period goal.
Zaba made 28 saves in his second straight start in the Wolf Pack net.
The Wolf Pack have now lost three consecutive games in the season series with Bridgeport, after they went the first five games of the series without a regulation loss (3-0-0-2).
The Wolf Pack are now off until this Friday night, when they will host Springfield at the XL Center in a 7:00 game.
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