AHL Peoria Rivermen

Rivermen Come Back but Fall in Houston 4-3 in Shootout

Published on March 10, 2007 under American Hockey League (AHL)
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Houston - The Peoria Rivermen replayed the same scenario and result from just over two weeks ago on Saturday night at the Toyota Center against the Houston Aeros in front of 11,678, coming back to tie the game on a hat-trick goal before falling in a shootout 4-3.

On February 23, the Rivermen trailed the Grand Rapids Griffins at home in the third period, before center Ryan Ramsay completed the hat trick and his team eventually fell in a shootout. On Saturday night, right wing Mike Glumac continued his torrid point-scoring pace with the team's second hat trick of the season to push the game beyond regulation. Glumac, unfortunately, was the only Rivermen to score in the overtime shootout session, and Houston left wing Peter Olvecky, who had two goals in the game, nabbed the shootout decider in the fifth and final round; Matt Foy had the Aeros' other shootout marker.

With the hat trick, Glumac has 15 points (10g, 5a) in his last 12 games with five assists.

The Aeros (22-32-3-6, 53 pts) grabbed the game's first lead just over seven minutes into the contest. Right wing Aaron Voros fired a pass from just inside the left part of the right face-off circle to left wing Peter Olvecky, who spun and ripped his seventh tally of the season over the left shoulder of Rivermen goaltender Chris Beckford-Tseu.

The Rivermen (31-22-2-5, 69 pts), who dropped to 1-5 in shootouts this season, tied it up 1-1 on the power play on Glumac's 20th tally of the season. Left wing Jon DiSalvatore, who was stationed above the right face-off circle, found Glumac at the bottom of the left circle for a one-time slap shot in behind Aeros netminder Dieter Kochan at 16:25 of the first.

Houston made it 2-1 exactly four minutes into the second period on a 5-on-3 man advantage. Veteran defenseman Curtis Murphy took a pass from defensive partner Erik Reitz at the left side of the upper slot; found a clear lane to the goal; and when he got even with the top of the left face-off circle, wristed the puck into the upper right corner for his seventh marker of the season. It was Murphy's first power-play goal in 72 games.

The Aeros gave themselves a two-goal lead in a four-on-four situation at 13:33 of the middle stanza. Reitz sent a low shot on net from the deep high slot that Olvecky, parked at the top of the Peoria goal crease, tipped past a screened Beckford-Tseu.

Glumac struck for the second time in the game to pull the Rivermen to within one of Houston on a delayed penalty call at 16:12 of the second. The puck popped to the right-wing boards for veteran right wing Peter Ferraro, who was skating back up the half wall toward the point. Ferraro quickly dished the puck off to a streaking center Gavin Morgan at the top of the face-off circle. Morgan sidestepped two Houston defenders before finding Glumac at the top of the goal crease. As Glumac accepted the pass, he turned and slapped it past Kochan for his 21st of the year.

Glumac tied the game on the power play with his hat trick goal with fewer five minutes to go in regulation. Center Trent Whitfield, at the right side of the Houston goal, found Glumac in the low slot for one-time snap goal, his 22nd of the 2006-07 campaign, at 15:04. It was the second hat trick by a Rivermen player this season and second in the last seven games (just over two weeks).

The Rivermen fell to 12-11-1-3 on the road this season. Tomorrow afternoon, Peoria travels to Chicago for the fourth game of a season-long seven in a row on the road and the first of two in a row between the clubs. Game time is 3:00 p.m. at Allstate Arena.

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