Rivermen Blanked at Home 2-0 by Manitoba
April 7, 2007 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Peoria Rivermen News Release
Peoria, IL. - Goals were hard to come by for the Peoria Rivermen this season against the Manitoba Moose, as they were shutout for the third straight time in four games against Manitoba, losing 2-0 in front of 3,915 Saturday night at Carver Arena.
The Rivermen (36-32-2-6, 80 pts), swept in four games by Manitoba this season, were outscored by the Moose (44-22-7-5, 100 pts) 13-1 in the series, registering just one point, an unassisted goal by Mike Glumac, on December 8 in Manitoba.
Each team had numerous scoring opportunities in the first two frames with the shot total favoring Peoria 28-23, but the game remained scoreless at the end of two.
Just 32 seconds into the last session, Manitoba notched the first goal of the game while on the power play. Left wing Jason Jaffray began the play at the top of the right circle, where he fed the puck to center point for defenseman Alex Edler, who quickly tapped it to right wing Lee Goren in the left circle. Goren wound-up and launched a rocket that flew over the left shoulder of Rivermen netminder Marek Schwarz, hitting the bottom of the crossbar and falling over the goal line. It was Goren's 25th marker of the year.
The Moose tallied their second man-advantage marker of the game at 14:26 of the third stanza. From the top of the left face-off circle, Edler fired a pass cross-ice to the right circle for Jaffray, who wristed a shot just over the glove of Schwarz and into the top-left corner for his team-leading 35th goal of the season.
Manitoba goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris stopped all 34 shots that Peoria fired at him earning his second shutout against the Rivermen; in fact, all four wins that Grumet-Morris has recorded this year have been shutouts. Prior to tonight's game, the second-year goaltender played in 15 games registering a 3-6-5 record with a 2.35 goals-against-average and had stopped 92.6-percent of shots faced.
The Rivermen, who fell to 21-14-1-2 at home and dropped to four points behind the Iowa Stars with a game in hand for fourth place in the West Division, will continue their four-game homestand on Wednesday, April 11 at 7:00 p.m. when they battle the Milwaukee Admirals.
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