AHL Providence Bruins

P-Bruins Fall to Monarchs 6-3

Published on February 11, 2006 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Providence Bruins News Release


Manchester, NH - The Providence Bruins fell to the Manchester Monarchs 6-3 Saturday evening at the Verizon Wireless Arena. The P-Bruins got goals from David Lundbohm, Ben Guite and Pascal Pelletier. The P-Bruins are now 28-20-1-2 on the season, 59 points and in fourth place in the Atlantic Division.

The Monarchs took a 1-0 lead at the 4:09 mark of the opening period. Jeff Tambellini was look for a pass to Greg Hogeboom. The pass was blocked by Michael Schutte, but Connor James trailed the play and scored off the blocked pass. Manchester took a 2-0 lead on a shorthanded goal. After the P-Bruins iced the puck the face off came far circle from Providence goaltender Brian Eklund. The Monarchs won the face off and Matt Ryan blasted a shot from the far point off the pads of Eklund and into the net. The Monarchs went up 3-0 when Konstantin Pushkarev fed Petr Kanko to the near side of the net. Kanko through the puck off Eklund and it bounced into the net. The P-Bruins cut the Monarchs lead to 3-1 heading into the first intermission when Schutte held the zone at the left point. He worked the puck behind the net to Tyler Redenbach who sent a perfect pass to Lundbohm waiting in the slot. Lundbohm slid the puck past Monarchs netminder Barry Brust to put the P-Bruins on the scoreboard.

The P-Bruins pulled within a goal at the 3:58 mark of the second period. Ben Guite scored off passes from Jason MacDonald and Mark Stuart to cut the Monarchs lead to 3-2. The Monrachs scored two goals of their own in the period to take a 5-2 lead into the second intermission. Ryan tallied his second goal of the evening at the 8:38 mark of the period, while Brendan Bernakevitch scored at the 9:47 mark with assists going to Brad Smyth and Noah Clarke.

In the third period the P-Bruins got back within two goals. While on the power play Doug Nolan tried clearing the zone for the Monarchs, but the puck took a funny hop off the boards and landed right on the stick of Pelletier. He got the puck past Brust to make the score 5-3. Manchester added an insurance goal at the 15:33 mark of the third period off the stick of Jeff Tambellini as the Monarchs went on to win by a 6-3 final.

Eklund stopped 8 of 12 shots and Jordan Sigalet 11 of 13 shots for the P-Bruins, while Brust stopped 32 of 35 for the Monarchs. The P-Bruins were 1 for 5 on the power play, while Manchester was 0 for 3 on the man-advantage.

The P-Bruins return home to the Dunkin' Donuts Center Friday, February 17 to face the Portland Pirates at 7:05 p.m. The first 1,000 fans in attendance will receive Providence Bruins key chains courtesy of your New England Dodge dealers. Tickets for all P-Bruins regular season home games are available online at providencebruins.com, at the Dunkin' Donuts Center box office and at all TicketMaster outlets. For more information, please contact the Bruins' ticket office at (401) 273-5000 or log on to the team website.

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