AHL Peoria Rivermen

Rivermen Slow Down Chicago 2-1 on the Road

Published on January 9, 2007 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Peoria Rivermen News Release


Chicago , IL. (January 9, 2007) - For the first time in five games this season, the Peoria Rivermen were able to beat the high-flying Chicago Wolves, winning 2-1 before a crowd of 3,938 Tuesday night at the Allstate Arena.

Tonight's contest marked only the sixth time in 40 games that the Chicago Wolves, the AHL's leading scoring team with 180 goals on the year, were held to two or fewer markers. Peoria also ended the AHL record 39 game point streak of right wing Darren Haydar.

The Wolves (26-11-1-2, 55 pts) opened the scoring with a power play goal at 7:49 of the first frame. Defenseman Nathan Oystrick intercepted a clearing attempt at the left point and quickly fired a shot at Peoria netminder Chris Beckford-Tseu, who stopped the shot. The rebound trickled behind the goal line to the left of the net, where center Cory Larose ricocheted the puck off the leg of Beckford-Tseu and into the net for his ninth goal of the season.

Peoria (21-13-1-2, 45 pts) tied the game with a man-advantage marker of its own at 18:41 of the opening period. Defenseman Jeff Woywitka controlled the puck at the right point and dished it to left wing Charles Linglet, the leading goal scorer for the Rivermen, at the top of the right face-off circle. Linglet skated to his left and once he reached the high slot, wristed a shot that was just over the glove of Chicago goaltender Fred Brathwaite for his 20th tally of the year.

The Rivermen took the lead on their second power play goal of the game and left wing Peter Sejna's 12 th goal of the season. Left wing Jon DiSalvatore fired a pass from the bottom of the right face-off circle to Trent Whitfield just in front of the goal mouth. Whitfield tipped the puck on net, but was stopped by Brathwaite; the rebound fell to his left, where Sejna skated in from the slot and jammed the puck underneath the pads of Brathwaite. The goal came at 13:55 of the second stanza and turned out to be the game-winner.

The Wolves had an excellent opportunity to tie the game with six minutes left in the final session as they were on a two-man advantage for a full minute, but Peoria's penalty killing unit, which stopped 7 of 8 chances, prevailed to keep its 2-1 lead.

The winning goalie, Chris Beckford-Tseu, has now won four-in-a-row and improves to 6-3-0-1 with the Rivermen. During his four-game win streak, Beckford-Tseu has stopped 92 of 97 shots for a .948 save-percentage and 1.25 goals against average.

The Rivermen will travel to Grand Rapids to face-off against the Griffins at Van Andel Arena at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday night to end their four-game road trip.

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