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Rampage Earn Point in 3-2 Shootout Loss to Charlotte

March 4, 2015 - American Hockey League (AHL)
San Antonio Rampage News Release


CHARLOTTE (March 4, 2015) - The San Antonio Rampage (31-19-5-1) dropped their first shootout game of the season, losing 3-2 to the Charlotte Checkers (22-29-5-1) in front of 3,056 at Time Warner Cable Arena Wednesday night. The Rampage are now 4-1-0-1 against the Checkers this season, and are 4-4-1-1 after 10 games of this year's Rodeo Road Trip.

Rocco Grimaldi and Shane O'Brien became the seventh and eighth Rampage players to enter double digits in goals this season.

Zach Boychuk gave the Checkers the first goal of the game, which came on the power play. He picked up the puck to the right of Michael Houser and flipped it over his pads and in for the lone tally of the first period.

Grimaldi picked up his own rebound at 5:25 of the second period and put the puck past Drew MacIntyre to tie the game 1-1. The teams remained tied into the second intermission despite the Rampage outshooting the Checkers 16-10 in the second stanza.

Trevor Carrick gave Charlotte the go-ahead goal at 3:26 of the final frame, and O'Brien tied the game at two at 12:22 on the power play. Butler had an opportunity to regain a Rampage lead with a penalty shot at 16:07, but the shot sailed just wide of the net and both teams remained locked at two at the end of regulation.

Additional time wasn't enough to determine a winner, and in the sixth round of the shootout, Danny Biega gave the Checkers the 3-2 victory.

In his fifth start of the Rodeo Road Trip and 20th of the season, Houser stopped 32-of-34 shots. MacIntyre turned away 40-of-42 shots. All but one San Antonio skater had a shot on net, and Grimaldi had a team-high six shots.

KEY STAT

Howden picked up his first point since Dec. 28 with the assist on Grimaldi's goal in his third game back after missing the previous 21 due to an upper-body injury.

The Rampage are now 0-3 in penalty shot attempts this year. San Antonio is 5-1 in shootouts this season, falling for the first time on the road to the Checkers in the shootout.

LINEUP NOTES

Garrett Wilson skated as part of the Rampage first line, and Howden moved up to the third line along with newly-acquired Dany Heatley. New defensive pairings included Jonathan Racine and newly-assigned Matt Corrente. Mackenzie Weegar, John McFadden, Andrew Yogan and Tony Turgeon were all healthy scratches.

Logan Shaw skated in his 100th AHL game.

UP NEXT

The Rampage play their final game of the Rodeo Road Trip Thursday night against the Checkers for one final time at Time Warner Cable Arena before Charlotte moves to Bojangles' Coliseum next season. The Silver and Black return home on March 7 when they take on the Iowa Wild at 7:00 p.m. in Military Appreciation Night, presented by Champion AC. Individual and season tickets can be purchased by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554 or online at sarampage.com .

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