Rivermen Shut Down Omaha 4-0 on the Road
December 30, 2006 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Peoria Rivermen News Release
Omaha , NE - The Peoria Rivermen remain undefeated at the Omaha Civic Auditorium, as they are 7-0-0-0 in Omaha and have won 11 in a row against the Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights, dating back to last year, as Peoria won 4-0 on Saturday night in front of 5,033.
The Knights (19-12-2-0, 40 pts) were unable to put the puck past Peoria goalie Chris Beckford-Tseu as he stopped all 19 shots that he faced. Tonight's shut out is the first of the 2006-07 campaign for any Rivermen netminder, and fourth of the season for Beckford-Tseu, with his first three coming with Peoria's ECHL affiliate Alaska Aces. The victory improved Beckford-Tseu's record to 3-3-0-1 with the Rivermen, while posting a 2.42 goals against average and stopping 89.5-percent of shots faced.
The Rivermen (17-12-1-2, 37 pts) opened the scoring at 14:08 of the opening session as left wing Jon DiSalvatore netted only his third goal in his last 22 contests and seventh overall. Center Trent Whitfield skated up to the high slot and floated a shot that hit an Omaha defenseman and landed in the slot, where DiSalvatore, who had his back to the net and a defender all over him, somehow spun around while swinging his stick at the puck and managed to knock it past the Knights netminder Brent Krahn and bank it off of the right post and in.
Late in the middle period, Peoria and DiSalvatore registered their second marker of the night on a delayed penalty call at 19:18. Whitfield was checked hard from behind in the left-wing corner, which was the cause for the penalty call, as the puck squirted to left wing Peter Sejna, who dished it off to the left face-off circle for DiSalvatore; he sent a wrist shot through a screen between the right arm and torso of Krahn for his eighth tally of the season. In four games against the Knights this year, DiSalvatore has tallied 7 points (3g, 4a).
At 3:15 of the final frame, the Rivermen notched a power play goal to increase their lead to 3-0. Circling along the right-wing boards, Sejna was able to clear a passing lane to center point as he feathered a pass to defenseman Roman Polak, who one-timed a laser below the glove of Krahn for his third goal of the year. After going his first 15 games without scoring a point, Polak has now recorded seven points (3g, 4a) in his last seven games.
Peoria added another goal at the 11:14 mark of the third period on left wing Charles Linglet's team-leading 17 th tally of the season. Right wing Mike Glumac began a 2-on-1 breakaway after stealing the puck from an Omaha defenseman at the Knight blue line. Glumac skated up to the right face-off circle where he faked a shot to make Krahn commit then dished to Linglet skating alongside in the slot, where he was able to tap it into the vacated net.
The Rivermen improved to 7-5-1-2 on the road and will return home New Years Eve to face-off against the Hamilton Bulldogs at 5:00 p.m. to end their string of five games in six days.
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