AHL San Antonio Rampage

Rampage Down Admirals 2-1 in OT

January 9, 2009 - American Hockey League (AHL)
San Antonio Rampage News Release


SAN ANTONIO (January 9, 2009) - San Antonio forward Joel Perrault scored sixteen seconds into overtime and the Rampage scored a come from behind 2-1 sudden death victory over the West Division leading Milwaukee Admirals at the AT&T Center on Friday night in front of 6,561 delighted fans.

A season high crowd witnessed San Antonio's first comeback win of the year when trailing after two periods and they did it against the AHL's hottest team. While the Rampage had won eight of nine at the AT&T Center, Milwaukee came in with points in nine straight, 7-0-1-1.

Forward Patric Hornqvist put the Admirals up 1-0 with a power-play goal at 12:20 in the first. Hornqvist beat Rampage goalie Josh Tordjman high-stick side with just one second remaining in the Milwaukee power play.

Milwaukee would carry that lead well into the third period after a scoreless second, but the Rampage evened it up at one apiece when forward Derek Nesbitt sailed a wrister high-glove side past Mark Dekanich with 6:50 remaining in regulation.

In overtime Perrault snapped a shot from the slot that was stopped, but he followed up with a rebound tally for his fourth of the year and second overtime winner of the season.

Dekanich entered second in the AHL in GAA at 1.97 and fifth in save percentage at 0.924, but the Rampage found a way to squeeze in two goals on 30 shots. Tordjman, who's now won 12 of his last 15, more than met the challenge stopping 22-23 shots and evened his record at 13-13-1.

The win was San Antonio's third straight at home and third straight overall. They have won 13 of their last 17 games. Defenseman Sean Sullivan recorded two assists including one on the game winner.

San Antonio had not won a game all season when giving up the first goal, 0-17-0-0. The Rampage also hadn't won a game when trailing after two periods, 0-18-0-0.

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