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Mavericks Finish Pre-Season 2-0 with 4-2 Win over IceMen

October 9, 2010 - Central Hockey League (CHL)
Kansas City Mavericks News Release


INDEPENDENCE, Missouri - The Missouri Mavericks defeated the Evansville IceMen 4-2 Saturday night in their second and final game of the pre-season. Missouri won both games over the weekend against Evansville, and the Mavs outscored the IceMen 11-3 overall. Four different Mavericks scored goals and defenseman Dominic D'Amour led all scorers with a goal and two assists. Missouri outshot Evansville 44-24.

Chris Mifflen started the scoring at the 8:07 mark of the first period when he slapped home a Simon Watson pass to give the Mavericks a 1-0 lead. D'Amour scored with two minutes remaining in the period to give Missouri a 2-0 lead heading into the first intermission.

Mavericks' second-year forward Nick Sirota scored his second goal of the pre-season at the 15:33 mark of the second period to give the home team a 3-0 lead. The goal proved to be the game winner and the only goal of the second period.

Adam Knopp broke Mavericks' goaltender Zane Kalemba's bid for a shutout at the halfway point of the third period to cut the Mavericks' lead to 3-1. Missouri quickly answered on Tab Lardner's second goal of the pre-season just 2:35 after Knopp's goal. Finally, at the 17:40 mark, Jeff Nelson tallied his first of the pre-season to finalize the scoring at 4-2.

The Mavericks outscored the IceMen 11-3 in the two pre-season games combined and now Mavericks' Head Coach Scott Hillman must trim his roster to 19 players before the regular season begins next Friday night.

Missouri will begin the regular season this Friday, October 15 against the Odessa Jackalopes at 7:05 p.m. at Independence Events Center. Tickets for all 33 regular season home games are on sale now starting at just $14 per game. Mini-plans, season tickets and group tickets are also available by calling (816) 252-7825 or visit www.MissouriMavericks.com for more information.

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