Nailers fall to Chiefs in Season Series Finale
March 10, 2007 - ECHL (ECHL)
Wheeling Nailers News Release
JOHNSTOWN, PA - The twelfth and final meeting of the season between the Wheeling Nailers and the Johnstown Chiefs ended in a 5-2 Chief win Friday night at the Cambria County War Memorial.
The Nailers took a 1-0 lead 7:32 into the first on the power play. With the Chiefs down a man for too many men on the ice, Jon Smyth tipped a Curtiss Patrick shot down and through the legs of Morgan Cey with just seconds remaining on the man advantage. It
was Smyth's fifth of the season and second power-play marker.
Wheeling's only lead lasted just 34 seconds and Geoff Waugh tied it at one. Grant Jacobsen was able to slide a puck through the top of the crease to Waugh who beat Andrew Penner for his first goal of the season and his professional career.
Still in the first period, Jacobsen gave his team the lead while the Nailers were on the power play. He was able to bust through the Nailers defense and beat Penner on a breakaway with a backhand move. It was just the sixth shorthanded goal of the season for the Chiefs and the eighth that the Nailers have allowed.
It would stay 2-1 until the 19:55 mark of the second period. Just as the Nailers finished killing off a penalty and seconds before the horn sounded, Jacobsen scored his second of the game. Jean Desrochers' shot was blocked by the Nailers defense but it was redirected onto the stick of Jacobsen at the doorstep.
In the third the Nailers would make it interesting. While on the powerplay, Doug Andress tried to clear the rebound of a Ned Havern shot. Sean Collins knocked Andress' stick back and the puck rolled off and into the net. With 11:20 to go in the third, the score was 3-2.
Johnstown responded quickly again. This time it was 27 seconds before the Chiefs regained their insurance. After a two-on-one in which Penner made the initial save, Dmitri Tarabrin was able to get his own rebound and put it in the net.
Tarabrin scored his second of the game and 15th of the year just over two minutes later to seal the deal for Johnstown.
Both Nailers goals came on the power play as they went 2 for 8. Johnstown was 0/5. Penner stopped 23 of 28 while Morgan Cey grabbed 20 of 22.
The Wheeling Nailers continue their three-game road trip on Saturday in Dayton.
They return home on Sunday at 6pm as they host the Dayton Bombers.
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