Sound Tigers Defeat Worcester 4-1
February 20, 2005 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Bridgeport Islanders News Release
BRIDGEPORT, CT - The American Hockey League's Bridgeport Sound Tigers, top affiliate of the National Hockey League's New York Islanders, beat the Worcester IceCats 4-1 at home Sunday to improve a pair of winning streaks to three games overall and six in a row at home.
After a scoreless first period, Worcester opened the scoring 7:42 into the middle frame when Jay McClement beat Sound Tiger goalie Dieter Kochan for a shorthanded goal and a 1-0 IceCats lead. It was McClement's fourth shorthanded goal and tenth overall of the season.
The Sound Tigers tied the game at 1-1 when Brendan Yarema redirected a Richard Seeley points shot past Worcester netminder Jason Bacashihua for his fourth goal of the season. Seeley and Jody Robinson each recorded an assist on the play at 11:08.
A little over two minutes later, the Sound Tigers took their first lead at 2-1 when Justin Mapletoft scored his sixth goal of the season, shorthanded. It was Mapletoft's first shortie of the year and came at 13:08 off assists by Justin Papineau and Seeley.
The Sound Tigers upped their lead to 3-1 10:03 into the third period when John Morlang scored his second goal of the season with the lone assist going to Steve Regier. Regier was originally credited with the goal but had it switched to Morlang.
Morlang, who had four points and was a +5 while playing for the United Hockey League's Danbury Trashers Saturday night, had a chance for another goal after the IceCats pulled Bacashihua in favor of an extra attacker but passed on an easy shot at the open net and fed Sean Bergenheim who scored his 15th of the season, tying him with Rob Collins for the team lead in that category, to ice the win at 4-1 with 1:30 left to play.
Sound Tiger Captain Seeley was the first star of the game with two assists, Mapletoft was the second star with the game-winning goal and Kochan was the third with total of 26 saves. Kochan made 102 saves while going 3-0 this week and improving to 11-11 on the season.
The Sound Tigers were 0 for 6 on the power play while Worcester was 0 for 7 and had a 27-26 shots on goal advantage.
The Sound Tigers will host the Hershey Bears at Bridgeport's Arena at Harbor Yard this Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. Information regarding Sound Tigers ticket packages and marketing opportunities is available by calling 203-334-GOAL or logging on to www.soundtigers.com. Groups, organizations, companies, etc. that are interested in having a member of the Sound Tigers appear at an event are invited to call 203-334-GOAL.
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