Rivermen Shut Out Toledo 2-0 for the Second Straight Night
Published on March 13, 2004 under ECHL (ECHL)
Peoria Rivermen News Release
Toledo, Ohio (March 13, 2004) â It was a repeat performance for the Peoria Rivermen on Saturday night in Toledo, literally. The Peoria Rivermen shut out the archrival Toledo Storm 2-0 in front of 4,272 at the Toledo Sports Arena on the heels of a 24-save performance by Rivermen goaltender Levente Szuper.
The Rivermen shut out Toledo on Friday night 2-0 with 26 saves from Szuper.
It was Szuper's third shutout of the season and the seventh by a Rivermen goaltender this year. He turned away six shots in the first period, 10 in the second and eight in the final session for the victory. He has won six in a row, one shy of his own team season mark set on January 10.
Peoria (39-16-8, 86 points) has won a season-best nine straight overall and three in a row on the road, all against Toledo. The Rivermen, who improved to an ECHL-best 20-5-5 on the road, are unbeaten in regulation against the archrival Storm through 11 (9-0-2) of 12 season meetings. Peoria still trails the defending Kelly Cup Champion Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies for second place by one point with two more games played. Toledo (21-31-9, 51 points) is winless in its last nine games (0-6-3) and fell to 11-17-4 on home ice.
Toledo goaltender Doug Teskey stopped 32 of 34 shots in his 19th loss of the season (14-19-6).
The Rivermen opened the scoring at 11:36 of the first period. Adam Edinger grabbed a loose puck behind the Toledo goal, worked out just off the left post and backhanded the puck up through the legs of defenseman Paul Ballantyne and over the left shoulder of Teskey. It was his 19th goal of the season.
There was one first period fight. After a vicious slash from Peoria's Dave Csumrik, Nick Parillo dropped the gloves and won a clear decision over Csumrik.
Scott Turner's ninth goal of the season gave the Rivermen a 2-0 lead at 14:31 of the second. After Trevor Baker was stopped on a chance at the top of the Toledo goal crease, Scott Turner slid the puck into the open net as he was crosschecked from behind by Toledo defenseman Kyle Kos.
Kos then started a mix-up behind the Toledo goal, getting everyone on the ice involved. In the end, he was assessed with 24 minutes in penalties on the play â two minutes for crosschecking, two minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct, a 10-minute misconduct and a game misconduct.
Tomorrow afternoon â Sunday, March 14 â the Rivermen face off against the first place Wheeling Nailers at WesBanco Arena at 1:00 p.m. CT.
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