ECHL Wheeling Nailers

Sirianni Hat Trick Leads Nailers Over Royals

Published on December 14, 2008 under ECHL (ECHL)
Wheeling Nailers News Release


Rob Sirianni recorded his first professional hat trick and first since he played juniors in a 4-1 win over the Reading Royals Sunday evening at WesBanco Arena.

The Nailers won all 3 games this weekend and have won 6 of their last 7 in closing to within 2 points of the North Division leading Johnstown Chiefs heading into their home-and-home matchup next weekend.

Sirianni returned to Wheeling after a 6 game loan to Binghamton of the AHL and had a 6 goal weekend with 2 goals at Cincinnati on Friday, 1 goal Saturday, and the hat trick on Sunday.

Eric Johnson scored the other goal for the Nailers for his 3rd of the season all of which have come within the last 5 games.

The game was scoreless for the first 31 minutes with James Rhymer and Curtis Darling both making several fine saves on the Reading and Wheeling ends.

Eric Johnson roofed a power play tally from the left dot at 11:02 of the 2nd period on a fine cross-ice feed by Jordan Morrison to open the scoring for the Nailers.

Wheeling led 1-0 at the 2nd intermission but Sirianni quickly made it 2-0 at 0:36 into the 3rd on a nice drop by Mitch Ganzak.

Peder Skinner notched the lone Reading tally on the night at 8:00 into the 3rd on a blast from the left dot to pull the Royals to within 2-1.

Rob Sirianni got it back less than a minute later when he scored at 8:54 assisted by Aaron Clarke.

Sirianni capped the hat trick with just 5 seconds left as he just got on the ice in time to try for the empty netter which he converted on another assist by Clarke.

Curtis Darling turned away 25 of the 26 shots he faced for the win to improve to 10-3-4.

Wheeling improved to 15-3-5 with their 6th win in their last 7 games and 3rd in a row and are 2-0 against Reading and 8-2-2 on home ice.

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