Moose Top Bulldogs, 3-2

March 23, 2010 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Manitoba Moose News Release


The Manitoba Moose earned a 3-2 victory over the North Division's first place Hamilton Bulldogs in front of 6,909 fans at MTS Centre on Tuesday night. Marco Rosa, Guillaume Desbiens and Evan Oberg all notched goals for Manitoba while Cory Schneider stopped 24 of 26 shots in his 52nd appearance this season.

With Cory Schneider in net for Manitoba and former Moose Curtis Sanford backing the Bulldogs, the two clubs faced-off in their fifth clash of the season at MTS Centre.

Tommy Maxwell's hooking penalty at 10:27 put the Bulldogs on the first powerplay of the night. Despite bringing their shot count to seven on the man-advantage, Hamilton couldn't beat Manitoba's penalty kill unit.

The powerplay tables turned in favor of the Moose at 16:56 when J.T. Wyman was handed a holding penalty of his own. Manitoba stole the shot lead during the two-minutes but like the visitors, couldn't notch an opening goal.

5:39 into the second period, the Bulldogs broke onto the scoreboard. Alex Henry's initial shot bounced off the crossbar allowing Mike Glumac to smack the disc into the open cage for a 1-0 lead.

With Alex Henry serving time for roughing, the Moose benefited from their third powerplay of the night. Marco Rosa snipped the puck from the face-off circle, beating Sanford on his blocker side, to knot the game at one.

The Bulldogs stole back their lead 36 seconds later. A two-on-one Hamilton advantage saw Mike Glumac score his second of the night when he deked Schneider for a 2-1 tally.

With 2:32 remaining in the middle frame, Marco Rosa fought his way through the visiting defence and passed the puck over to Guillaume Desbiens. The right-winger's shot was blocked by Sanford but the puck fell out of the goaltender's grasp and past the goal-line to the tie the game at two.

At 10:27 of the third period the Moose positioned themselves in the Bulldogs zone. Rookie defenceman Evan Oberg smacked the puck from inside the blue line to beat Sanford under his extended goal pad to confirm a 3-2 victory for the Moose.

LOOKING AHEAD The Moose will play close-out their home series against the Bulldogs tomorrow night.

NEXT GAME Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 7:30PM @ MTS Centre (7:30pm on CJOB Radio with Brian Munz & Jim Toth)



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