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Monarchs Power Past Jackals in 6-1 Rout

January 21, 2017 - ECHL (ECHL)
Manchester Monarchs News Release


MANCHESTER, N.H. - The Manchester Monarchs converted on four power-plays, and received two goals each from Ashton Rome and Joey Diamond, on their way to a 6-1 rout of the Elmira Jackals on Saturday night at SNHU Arena.

The Monarchs (25-10-2-2) won despite being outshot by the Jackals (9-23-5-0), and look to take the weekend series Sunday afternoon.

"I'm happy with the effort the guys played with tonight," Monarchs Head Coach, Rich Seeley, said. "We were able to build some momentum off the third period of last night's game, and I'm happy that the guys were able to bounce back and get a positive result."

Diamond opened the scoring for the Monarchs at 18:15 of the first period with a power-play goal, his 14th marker of the season. After receiving a pass from Teddy Doherty at the top of the left circle, Diamond toe-dragged the puck to shed a defender and roofed a wrist shot past the glove of Jackals goaltender, Jason Kasdorf, to put the Monarchs up, 1-0.

The Jackals responded at 8:30 of the second period when Guy LeBoeuf scored his 2nd goal the season. LeBoeuf wristed a shot on goal from the right point that found its way past the glove of Monarchs goaltender, Jonah Imoo, and into the back of the net to knot the score at 1-1.

The Monarchs answered right back just 1:14 later when Kevin Morris scored a power-play goal at 9:44 of the second period, his 9th goal of the year. Morris parked himself in front of the crease and tipped a shot from the point by David Kolomatis past Kasdorf to give the Monarchs a 2-1 lead.

Manchester extended their lead at 10:23 of the second period when Rome scored his 4th goal of the season. Teddy Doherty sent a cross-ice pass to Rome in the slot, and Rome swept a wrister over the blocker of Kasdorf to push the Monarchs lead to 3-1.

At 17:23 of the second period, Rome scored his second goal of the game while on the power play to extend the Monarchs lead to 4-1. Just six seconds into the man-advantage, Rome received the puck from a face-off win by from Matt Leitner, circled the net and waited out Kasdorf on his backhand before sliding the puck across the goal line.

With 17.2 seconds remining in the middle frame, Diamond scored his 15th goal of the season and second of the game, capping a four-goal second period for the Monarchs. Diamond took the puck down the left wing into the offensive-zone where he cut towards the goal with a pirouette and finished his rush with a five-hole goal to give Manchester a 5-1 lead heading into the third period.

At 4:05 of the third period, Zac Lynch scored his 9th goal of the season on a 4-on-3 power play to give the Monarchs a five-goal lead. Leitner skated from behind the Jackals net and floated a pass to the stick of Lynch in the slot, where he picked the top corner on new Jackals goaltender, Tyler Parks, to give Manchester a 6-1 lead.

The Monarchs are back in action Sunday, Jan. 22 (3 p.m.), when they finish their three-game series with the Elmira Jackals at SNHU Arena.

Notes

The Monarchs won by five goals for the first time this season

The Monarchs are 14-0-0-0 when scoring five or more goals

Manchester improved to 21-0-1-1 when leading after two periods

Jonah Imoo recorded his second assist of the season

Teddy Doherty is on a six-game assist streak, the longest of the season

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