
Pair of Quick Strikes Help Aces Past Eagles, 2-1
March 24, 2013 - ECHL (ECHL)
Colorado Eagles News Release
LOVELAND, Colo. - The Alaska Aces used a pair of goals just 21 seconds apart to edge the Colorado Eagles, 2-1, in the third game between the clubs this week. The win secured the Aces' third straight regular season ECHL championship, with the Kelly Cup playoffs just over a week away. The game was Colorado's last at home for the regular season, as they'll play in Utah three times next week before participating in their 10th straight playoff run.
The teams skated to a scoreless first frame in which the Aces out-shot the Eagles, 11-5. The star of the period was Adam Brown, who highlighted his 11 saves when he stopped Bobby Hughes on a penalty shot just 2:21 in after the forward was impeded on a shorthanded breakaway.
Colorado got on the board first, 4:19 into the second stanza, when Michael Forney held up at the left point while a pair of Eagles crashed the crease. Forney then sent the puck on net where Greg Gardner deflected it home for his first professional goal.
But two and a half minutes later the Aces got the first of their two quick tallies to take the lead. Tim Hall got the first goal on a back-door feed from Hughes. And on the next shift, a pair of Alaska players dug the puck out of the right corner of the offensive zone and found Chris Clackson in the slot for a shot past Brown.
Colorado out-shot Alaska, 13-5, in the final frame in their strongest period of play on the night. But despite their league-leading power play having a chance late in the period, the Eagles couldn't get another puck past Gerald Coleman.
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