Peoria Suffers Third Overtime Loss of Season
Published on March 17, 2006 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Peoria Rivermen News Release
Manchester, NH - At Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Friday night, the Peoria Rivermen tussled with a game Manchester Monarchs squad and came away with a tightly contested 2-1 overtime loss. The Rivermen and the Monarchs skated through two scoreless periods before Manchester was able to dent the twine first early on in the third frame. Although Peoria later squared the contest at one goal apiece and eventually forced overtime, the Monarchs won the game in the final minute of the extra session and handed the Rivermen the third overtime set-back of their inaugural 2005-06 American Hockey League (AHL) season.
Before their overtime loss on Friday evening at Manchester, the Rivermen had suffered defeat in the extra session on two previous occasions this season. Their first overtime loss in franchise history came back on Tuesday, December 27, 2005, in Milwaukee. On that night of the holiday season, the Milwaukee Admirals beat the Rivermen 4-3 in overtime on a goal just nine seconds into the extra period by left wing Timofei Shishkanov, who has since been acquired in a trade by the Rivermen parent club St. Louis Blues and has seen action in 12 games for Peoria this season. Peoria's second overtime set-back occurred just more than one week ago, on Wednesday, March 8, at Grand Rapids. The then-Western Conference-leading Grand Rapids Griffins stung the Rivermen that night 5-4 in overtime, but not until the final minute of the extra session. With just 28 seconds remaining in overtime, Griffins left wing Jiri Hudler notched his 33rd goal of the year to send Peoria packing with one point in the standings for their efforts.
As they did in their last overtime loss, the Rivermen held on until the final minute of overtime on Friday evening at Manchester before yielding the winning goal. Monarchs defenseman Richard Petiot started the game-winning play by charging into the Rivermen end along the left-wing boards and then cutting slightly to his right toward the goal. As he reached the goalline, Petiot swept a centering pass back and to his right into the low slot area. Blazing down the slot at just the right moment, center Greg Hogeboom skated onto the puck and one-timed it over Peoria goalie Gregg Naumenko's glove and inside the right post to win the tilt for Manchester 2-1 on his sixth goal of 2005-06 with just 51 seconds to go in overtime.
The Rivermen now claim an overall record of 38-22-3-4 and a road mark of 17-11-3-2. The Monarchs, meanwhile, improve to 37-23-2-4 on the season and to 19-9-2-2 at home.
The Monarchs finally broke through early on in the third period for the first goal of this game, leveraging a five-on-three power play to take a 1-0 lead. On a shot from the top of the left circle in the Rivermen zone by Manchester defenseman Brad Fast, Naumenko made the initial save but issued a rebound into the slot. Monarchs left wing Dany Roussin then came streaking down the left side of the slot and went down on his left knee to one-time the puck past Naumenko just 1:48 into the third for just his second strike of the season.
Midway through the third period, the Rivermen drew even with the Monarchs at 1-1. On a two-on-one breakaway with winger Colin Hemingway to his right, Peoria center Ryan Ramsay made a nice play to get Monarchs netminder Adam Hauser to go down by faking a shot. Ramsay then darted to the left and lifted the puck up over Hauser and into the top left corner of the cage at the 10:52 mark of the third. The goal gave Ramsay seven goals and three assists in the last 10 games and 11 total tallies on the year.
The next stop on Peoria's current three-game Eastern swing is a date on Saturday in Syracuse, New York, at 6:30 p.m. (CST).
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