Late Goal Sends Kenai River Past Wild
October 27, 2013 - North American Hockey League (NAHL)
Wenatchee Wild News Release
Wenatchee, WA. - The Wenatchee Wild hosted the Kenai River Brown Bears in the third of a three-game set at the Town Toyota Center Sunday night and it was the Brown Bears who would prevail, thanks to a goal late in regulation, 4-3, in front of 2,158 fans.
Ryan Gotelaere (Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin) opened the scoring, coming off the bench to take the puck and score on a shot up high. Troy Loggins (Huntington Beach, California) and Parker Tuomie (Biemerhaven, Germany) assisted at 8:05, giving the Wild a 1-0 lead. Trey Bradley (Tampa, Florida), hanging around the goal crease, banged one home just over 3 minutes later on a goal mouth scramble. River Rymsha (Huntington Woods, Michigan) and Loggins assisted at 11:16, putting Wenatchee up 2-0.
18 seconds into period two, Alec Butcher scored for Kenai River, assisted by Zack Zulkanycz, cutting the Wild lead down to 2-1.
Zulkanycz scored a shorthanded goal in the third period for the Brown Bears to tie the game off a 2-on-1 break. The goal, assisted by Steven Butts at 3:40, tied the game 2-2. Nathan Colwell would give his team the lead at 13:51, on a spin around shot from below the right circle. Albin Karlsson and Christian Luiten assisted, for a 3-2 lead Kenai River lead. However, Wenatchee would bounce back on the power play to tie the game. Chris Jones (Normandy Park, Washington) tapped it home, assisted by Chris Koukis (Brentwood, California) and Gotelaere at 16:11, tying the game 3-3. Just as it appeared the game would be headed to overtime, Karlsson scored for the Brown Bears to make it 4-3, assisted by Zulkanycz and Butcher at 18:22. Kenai River would hold on from there, to take the 4-3 win. "There are lots of positives over the three games" said Wenatchee Wild Head Coach Bliss Littler. "All three games we had our chances. We've got to do a better job so their save percent isn't 94%. We've got to do a better job of playing defense so that our save percent isn't 86%."
The Wild outshot the Brown Bears 39-24. Chase Perry (Andover, Minnesota) made 20 saves for Wenatchee; Kris Oldham had 36 stops for Kenai River. The Wild was 1-for-5 with a shorthanded goal against. They were 5-of-5 on the penalty kill.
The Wild is now 5-8-2, Kenai River is 12-3-0.
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