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Oilers Close Opening Weekend with First Win of the Season

October 18, 2015 - ECHL (ECHL)
Tulsa Oilers News Release


TULSA, OK - The wait for win number one may have been a few days longer than Jason Christie would have liked but on Sunday afternoon at the BOK Center, the new Tulsa Oilers head coach watched his team defeat the Allen Americans 3-1 for the first two points of the 2015-16 season. Tulsa goalie Jussi Olkinuora stopped 31 shots as the Oilers bounced back from a Saturday night setback in Allen.

The Oilers took their first lead of the season at 8:35 of the first period on a blast from the point by defenseman Matt Konan. A pass from rookie forward Dan DeSalvo was deflected back toward the blue line by Phil Brewer and Konan fired through traffic to beat Allen goalie Joel Rumpel. Six minutes after Konan's strike, Americans' winger Chad Costello, the ECHL leader in points during the 2014-15 season, chipped a rebound over the outstretched pad of Olkinuora to level the contest at 1-1.

Tulsa jumped back in front just 95 seconds into the middle stanza as Brandon Wong slipped a shot past Rumpel for his first goal of the season and first as an Oiler.

A collision with Allen forward Casey Pierro-Zabotel left Konan with a five-minute boarding major in the closing seconds of the second period but the Oilers successfully staved off the lengthy Allen power play to maintain a one-goal advantage. With Rumpel on the bench in favor of an extra attacker in the final minute of regulation, Tulsa winger Brady Ramsay intercepted a pass in the middle of his own zone and zipped the puck into the empty net to put the contest out of reach. Ramsay, the only Oilers' player to record a point in each of the first three games, netted his second goal of the season at 19:09.

Tulsa is still searching for its' first power play goal of the season after going 0-for-2 on the man-advantage on Sunday, but the Oilers' penalty kill was reliable once again with a 3-for-3 performance on Sunday to improve to 13-for-14 on the season. Connor Kucera, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound defenseman, made his Oilers debut on Sunday. The 24-year old from Twin Lakes, Indiana was signed by Tulsa earlier in the weekend.

The Oilers hit the road next weekend for a pair of games in Moline, Illinois against the Quad City Mallards.

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