ECHL Toledo Walleye

Storm Stays on Top of the ECHL

November 1, 2002 - ECHL (ECHL)
Toledo Walleye News Release


Toledo, Ohio) The Toledo Storm ran the team's home record to a perfect 6-0-0 with a 5-2 win over the Johnstown Chiefs tonight. At 7-1-1=15, the Storm has the most points in the overall league standings and remains in first place in the Northwest Division.

As they have in all seven wins this season, the Storm struck first when Dale Junkin bagged his first goal of the season with a slap shot out of the left circle that beat Johnstown goaltender, Dany Dallaire, low to the glove side at 6:27 of the first period. 2:23 later, Alexandre Jacques scored the first of what would be three power play goals on the night for the Storm when he tapped home a loose puck after Dallaire had stopped a Grady Moore slap shot from the left point.

Early in the second, Moore put the Storm up 3-0 when he was allowed to walk deep into the slot and rip off a high hard snap shot while the teams were playing four aside. Johnstown got on the board at 8:56 of the second when J.F. Boutin got behind the Toledo defense and went on a breakaway. Storm goaltender, Doug Teskey, made the original stop on Boutin but could not keep the trailer, Pierre-Luc Courchesne, from driving home the rebound.

Johnstown made it a one goal game early in the third, when the Chiefs were on the power play and creating tremendous pressure. Boutin fed a perfect back-door pass to Lukas Smital who jammed it home to make it 3-2 at 1:52 of the third. The Storm answered with their second power play goal of the night, when defenseman, Nathan Lutz, found Nick Parillo on the backdoor. Parillo had to take the feed on the backhand and do a complete spin-o-rama to jam the puck behind Dallaire and re-build Toledo's two goal lead. Jeff Mitchell added an empty netter while the Storm was on the power play with 27 seconds left to close out the scoring.

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