Sea Wolves Put Screws to Nailers in Shootout
Published on November 7, 2008 under ECHL (ECHL)
Mississippi Sea Wolves News Release
BILOXI, MS - Despite coughing up leads in the first two periods of the game, the Mississippi Sea Wolves were able to hang on to beat the Wheeling Nailers 5-4 in a shootout on Friday evening.
With Mississippi on the power play, the Nailers struck first when Elgin Reid took a cross-ice pass from Tommy Goebel on a shorthand two-on-one break and hammered it past the Sea Wolves' Ryan Munce for a shorthand goal at 3:18 of the first.
Playing in his first game since October 26, Jeremy Hall got the Sea Wolves on the board less than a minute later when he broke down the right wing and fired a wrist shot through the legs of Wheeling goaltender David Brown at 4:06 of the first period. Mississippi would take the lead at 10:20 when Jason Tejchma redirected Mathieu Melanson's centering pass over Brown and into the net. Nick Johnson would even the score for Wheeling as he picked off a pass and broke down the ice alone against Munce, went to the backhand, and tucked the puck behind the Sea Wolves netminder for the Nailers' second shorthand goal of the game at 12:30 of the first.
The Sea Wolves came out roaring in the second period, with Ryan Cruthers scoring his team-leading sixth goal of the season, picking up the rebound of Matt Deschamps' shot from the left point and firing it over Brown's blocker at 8:54 of the second for a power-play goal. Frederik Cabana extended Mississippi's lead to 4-2 when he blasted a pass from Bill LeClerc over Brown's blocking glove at 11:57. The lead was short-lived, however, as Nick Johnson would make a goal-line charge and pop the puck over Munce for his second of the night at 16:09, and then at 18:41 Aaron Clarke blasted a one-timer through Munce's legs to tie the game at four-apiece heading into the second intermission.
Following a scoreless third period and overtime, Ryan Cruthers scored in the second round of the shootout and Frederik Cabana converted his opportunity in the fourth round as Munce stopped four-of-five shooters to win the game in the second extra session.
Munce made 35 saves in regulation and stopped four-of-five shooters in the shootout to earn the win, and the Sea Wolves were 1-for-6 on the power-play.
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