Sound Tigers Fall to Penguins, 4-1
Published on March 14, 2008 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Bridgeport Islanders News Release
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins defeated the Sound Tigers 4-1 Friday night at Arena at Harbor Yard. Colton Fretter scored the team's lone goal midway through the third period as the Sound Tigers lost their fourth consecutive game.
Penguins' captain Nathan Smith opened the scoring with a wrap-around goal between the pads of Sound Tigers' starting goalie, Joey MacDonald as he moved across the goal mouth to his left. Smith picked up a loose puck behind the net that squirted free of a battle along the boards and put the puck into the net for the power-play goal. Tim Brent picked up an assist on the goal.
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton made it 2-0 after Ned Havern carried the puck along the right boards up to the point and fired a shot on goal. MacDonald kicked the puck out to his right where Tim Wallace tapped the rolling puck with his backhand past the sprawling Sound Tiger net-minder, 9:10 into the first.
Paul Bissonnette gave the Penguins a 3-0 lead just over three and a half minutes into the second. Jonathan Filewich passed the puck to Bissonnette cutting through the right circle where he snapped a wrist-shot beating MacDonald above his glove.
The Penguins' Jon D'Aversa made it 4-0 almost seven minutes into the third on a wrist-shot high over MacDonald's glove. Bissonnette and Filewich each added assists for their second points of the game.
The Sound Tigers would break Penguins' starter John Curry's shutout bid when Fretter scored his third goal with the Sound Tigers and fourth of the season 8:15 into the final period to bring the Sound Tigers within three. Jeremy Colliton fired a shot on Curry from the half-boards that Matt Keith deflected on net from the side. Curry made the initial save, but Fretter pounced on the rebound. Keith's assist on the goal was his ninth of the season, while Colliton collected his eighth.
MacDonald made 15 saves before he was replaced in net by Mike Morrison after he was in a fight with Curry with about seven minutes remaining in regulation. Curry stopped 26 Sound Tiger shots before giving way to David Brown. The Sound Tigers finished the night 1-for-4 with the man advantage, while killing two of the Penguins' three power-play opportunities.
The Sound Tigers are back in action tomorrow as they close out the weekend with a game against the Philadelphia Phantoms at Arena at Harbor Yard at 7 p.m.
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