Lawrence Nets Overtime Winner In Abbotsford

January 13, 2010 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Manitoba Moose News Release


The Manitoba Moose made their first visit to Abbotsford a memorable one with a 4-3 overtime decision over the Heat in front of a sold-out crowd of 7,046 fans at the Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre on Tuesday night. Eric Walsky netted his second goal of the season, Marco Rosa collected two markers while Lawrence Nycholat notched his first of the campaign to confirm the game in overtime.

Eric Walsky's hooking penalty at 2:14 put the hometown Heat on the first man-advantage of the night. Abbotsford had trouble setting up their powerplay as Manitoba continually cleared the puck out of their zone. The Moose extended their perfect penalty killing streak - currently at four games - by denying a duo of chances during the two-minutes.

The Heat connected at 12:56 to take the first lead. David der Gulik brought the bullet up the right wing and drove it down the middle. His blast made it past starting goaltender Cory Schneider and into the web to open the scoring.

In a two-on-one advantage J.D. Watt and Garth Murray stormed the visiting net. Watt paused, in an attempt to fake a pass, and instead fired to beat Schneider on his low blocker side for a two-goal lead.

Manitoba received their first powerplay at 19:39 when defenceman John Negrin was put away for holding. Despite bringing their shot count to 10 on the advantage, the Moose couldn't break Matt Keetley before play resumed to even strength.

With Mikael Backlund in the sin bin for roughing at 4:08 of the second, the Moose were able to get on the scoreboard. On the receiving end of Sergei Shirokov's pass, Eric Walsky was denied on his first attempt but caught his own rebound and connected on his second whack to tighten the gap, 2-1.

Guillaume Desbiens and J.D. Watt showed some discontent with each other when they exchanged punches at 5:11. After both players were separated, after several back-and-forth punches, the bad-mouthing continued until the players took their seats in their respective penalty boxes to serve their five-minute fighting majors.

Nolan Baumgartner took a slap shot from the blueline but the shot went wide and hit the boards. Marco Rosa caught the bounce off the back plank and smacked it over Keetley's extended right goal pad to knot the game at two. After the goal, the Heat exchanged goaltenders putting Leland Irving between the pipes.

At 16:29 Jason Jaffray walked to the front of the net and beat Schneider through the five-hole to regain the lead 3-2 going into the third period.

Rosa netted his second of the night at 9:40 of the final. Situated in the slot, the centre man fired the puck top shelf to tie the game at three goals apiece.

Overtime A mere 39 seconds into the extra frame, defenceman Lawrence Nycholat blasted the puck from outside the red circle and into the mesh to net his first goal of the season and the overtime winner, 4-3.

LOOKING AHEAD The Moose close-out their doubleheader against the Heat tomorrow night in Abbotsford.

NEXT GAME Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 9:30 PM @ Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre (9:30pm on CJOB Radio with Brian Munz)



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