Salmon Kings Fry Aces, 6-2
February 12, 2010 - ECHL (ECHL)
Alaska Aces News Release
VICTORIA, BC, Canada - Former Ace Olivier Filion scored a goal and assisted on three others as Victoria peppered Frank Doyle (pictured, courtesy Victoria Times-Colonist) with 50 shots in a 6-2 win over Alaska before 4,324 Thursday at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.
The Aces, denied a fourth straight victory for the fourth time in the last six weeks, drop to 23-22-4 overall, 8-16-1 on the road. Meanwhile, the Salmon Kings (28-17-5) remain unbeaten in their last five games and are 19-1-1 in their last 21 at home. The teams practice tomorrow and play Saturday at 6:00 p.m. AT and Sunday at Noon AT, their final regular season meetings of the season. Both tilts will be broadcast live on KFQD 750 AM, with Peanut Farm Pre-Game Show coverage beginning 15 minutes prior to face-off.
Victoria out-shot Alaska 18-4 in the first period and raced to a 3-0 lead on three second chance opportunities, the first coming when Lance Morrison (pictured, #9) scored just his second goal in 24 games at 7:20. Chad Painchaud notched his 20th goal of the year with a backhander from between the circles at 12:46 and Wes Goldie scored the first of his two goals, and the first of four on the power play for the Salmon Kings, with 3:25 left in the frame.
A late first period penalty against Victoria's Matt Siddall was converted by Nick Mazzolini into an Alaska power play goal just 48 seconds into the second, the 17th of the year for the Anchorage rookie. Siddall answered with a power play goal of his own at 2:22 of the middle frame, but Eric Boguniecki scored in a five-on-three situation five minutes later to lift Alaska within 4-2 at the break.
Boguniecki was stopped from point blank range early in the third period by Salmon Kings goalie Glenn Fisher (25 saves) and later whistled a shot off the crossbar that proved to be the last gasp for the Aces, who took four minor penalties in the last nine minutes, paving the way for power play goals by Filion at 12:07 and Goldie, whose league-leading 34th of the year (eight of which have come against Alaska) came with 1:23 remaining. Doyle recorded a season-high 45 saves in absorbing just his third loss in 15 starts for the Aces. Judd Blackwater, who scored his first pro hat trick in a 5-4 overtime win over Bakersfield Saturday, left after the opening period and did not return.
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