AHL San Antonio Rampage

Team effort sinks Rivermen in six-goal Rampage

Published on March 31, 2007 under American Hockey League (AHL)
San Antonio Rampage News Release


SAN ANTONIO - A season-high 7,426 AT&T Center crowd witnessed the Rampage sink the Rivermen with a 6-3 victory against the West Division rival Saturday Night during San Antonio's special-themed Spurs Night. Twelve of San Antonio's 18 players had a hand in helping the Rampage clinch their 30th win of the season, including goaltender Josh Tordjman, as Alex Leavitt, Yanick Lehoux, and Bryan Helmer led the pack each with a multi-point night.

Less than two minutes elapsed into the opening period before Peoria's Ryan Ramsey put the Rivermen up 1-0 with help from Charles Linglet on Ramsey's 13th goal of the season. The Rivermen maintained their lead for the remainder of the period outshooting the Rampage 10-7.

It took Randall Gelech only 27 seconds into the second stanza to even the score 1-1 with his 17th goal of the season and assists by Jakub Koreis and Ryan Garlock. Eight minutes later Peoria's Trent Whitfield gave the Rivermen a 2-1 edge with the Rivermen's only power-play goal of the night.

Lehoux sparked a four-goal stampede that boosted San Antonio into a 5-2 lead when he landed his 29th goal of the season at the 11:32 mark in the second period with help from Pascal Rheaume.

Lehoux led off the third period with his 70th point of the season, and 30th goal of the year, with a top-shelf goal against Rivermen goaltender Marek Schwarz just over two minutes into the final period. Helmer and Tordjman were credited with the assists on the Rampage's first of two power-play goals.

Helmer teamed up with defenseman Logan Stephenson to help Joel Perrault, who skated two games with the Rivermen earlier this season, score on a shot deflected off Schwarz's leg pad at the 6:20 mark for the Rampage's second power-play goal. Only 85 seconds later, Leavitt extended the Rampage lead to 5-2 when he tapped the puck inside the left post before Schwarz was able to regroup from a block on the opposite side of the net. Keith Yandle and Chris Ferraro, twin brother of Rivermen right wing Peter Ferraro who did not make the trip, were awarded with assists on Leavitt's ninth Rampage goal.

Peoria's leading scorer, Whitfield, bumped the Rivermen up to within two points of the Rampage at the 10:14 mark with assists from Jon DiSalvatore and Aaron MacKenzie on his 31st goal of the season.

Rivermen head coach Dave Baseggio made the decision to pull Schwarz for the remaining two minutes and give Peoria an extra attacker but instead Leavitt forwarded the puck up the ice from the Rampage's defensive zone all the way down to the center of the net for his first empty net goal of the season and push the Rampage up to a 30-38-2-4 record.

The Rampage finish the back-to-back series tomorrow at 5 p.m. against the Rivermen at the AT&T Center.

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