MacLean Scores 200th AHL Goal in Rampage 6-4 Win Over Houston
December 30, 2006 - American Hockey League (AHL)
San Antonio Rampage News Release
HOUSTON - Yanick Lehoux tallied three points and Don MacLean scored his 200th American Hockey League goal for the game's initial goal as the San Antonio Rampage swept the Houston Aeros in the conclusion of a home-and-home series with a 6-4 victory Saturday night at the Toyota Center.
But it wouldn't come easy as Houston would score a trio of goals in the final period to come from a 5-1 deficit.
San Antonio started off like they did Friday night at the AT&T Center, scoring a pair of goals in the opening frame. Chris Ferraro extended his scoring streak to three games when he fed an open MacLean from the left wall to make it 1-0 at 16:46.
Jeff Taffe, who forced overtime with 1.8 seconds left in regulation in Tuesday's game at the Toyota Center, punched in Lehoux's initial shot with 10.9 seconds remaining in the first period to give the Rampage a 2-0 lead.
MacLean, the AHL's MVP last season, registered his second point of the night assisting on Bill Thomas' goal just 48 seconds into the second period and collecting his second point of the evening.
Rampage netminder Josh Tordjman would lose his first shutout bid of the season at 5:39 as Houston's Matt Foy scored his 14th goal of the season from the top of right circle.
San Antonio would quiet the Aeros' rush with a pair of goals before the period's end.
Taffe won a face-off and found Rampage leading scorer Lehoux slipping one past Houston goaltender Tony Quesada midway in the second. Lehoux would collect his second assist and third point at 14:43 when he and rookie Logan Stephenson helped on Tyler Redenbach's third goal of the season.
Houston came out firing in the third period when Curtis Murphy scored a wrap-a-round shot just 1:13 in for a shorthanded goal. The Aeros cut the deficit to 5-3 when Roman Voloshenko scored a power-play goal at 9:18.
Foy, Houston's leading scorer, scored his second goal of the night with 2:03 remaining in regulation to give the Aeros one-goal deficit before Pascal Rheaume scored an empty-net goal to mute the comeback.
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