AHL Bridgeport Islanders

Sound Tigers Fall in Shootout

Published on November 15, 2006 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Bridgeport Islanders News Release


Bridgeport Sound Tigers goaltender Wade Dubielewicz stopped 29 shots, including 16 in the third period, to help the Sound Tigers salvage a point in a 3-2 shootout loss to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins at the Arena at Harbor Yard on Wednesday. The Sound Tigers, in front of a matinee crowd of 5,102, including thousands of students from area schools for the People's Bank Cool Fun 101 school-day game, went to a shootout for the second straight game; they beat Worcester 5-4 in their previous game on Sunday.

Erik Christensen scored in regulation and in the shootout to lift the Penguins to 11-3-1-0 this season and Bridgeport dropped to 6-5-0-3.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's Rob Schremp and Bridgeport's Sergei Ogorodnikov also scored in the shootout as the Penguins outscored the Sound Tigers 2-1 in the five rounds. Ogorodnikov, who won Sunday's game in the sixth shootout round, has three goals in four such opportunities this year.

The Sound Tigers built leads of 1-0 and 2-1 on goals by Jeff Tambellini, his team-leading eighth, and Johan Halvardsson, his first. Tambellini re-directed Allan Rourke's shot past Wilkes-Barre/Scranton goaltender Jeff Deslauriers on the power play for a 1-0 lead in the second period. The teams traded goals in the third with Christensen tying the game 1-1 with his team-leading 11th before Halvardsson scored after a perfect feed through the slot by Petteri Nokelainen for a 2-1 Bridgeport lead. Marc-Antoine Pouliot evened the score 2-2 with a power play tally for the Penguins.

The Sound Tigers, who came into the game with the league's second-best penalty killing unit, held the Pens' second-ranked power play to 1-for-6 on the man advantage. The Sound Tigers went 1-for-7 on the power play.

Wednesday's game marked the second time the Sound Tigers went to shootouts in back-to-back games this season - and the third time Bridgeport has gone to a shootout in just five home contests. The Sound Tigers have decided all of their five overtime games in shootouts. The Pens improved to 2-0 in shootouts this season.

Bridgeport visits Worcester on Friday and returns to the Arena to host Binghamton a week from Friday, on Nov. 24 at 7:30 p.m. For schedule and ticket information, including group discount opportunities, visit soundtigers.com or call 334-4625.

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