AHL Peoria Rivermen

Three Goal Second Puts Bulldogs Past Rivermen

Published on March 27, 2011 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Peoria Rivermen News Release


The Hamilton Bulldogs scored three times in a 5:54 stretch of the second period to pave their way to a 3-1 win over the Peoria Rivermen on Sunday afternoon at Carver Arena. Graham Mink notched his team-leading 24th goal of the season but the Bulldogs responded with three unanswered goals to close out the game.

Peoria (38-29-2-5) remains in a fourth-place tie with the Chicago Wolves (37-28-3-6) and the Oklahoma City Barons (36-27-2-9) who both lost on Sunday as well.

Peoria opened up the scoring at 13:09 of the first period on Mink's fourth goal in the past five games. Dean Arsene slid a puck along the blue line to Tyson Strachan who took a wrist shot from the right point that was tipped in front by Mink around Hamilton goaltender Drew MacIntyre.

Peoria took its 1-0 lead into the first intermission, but the second period of play was a different story. At the 7:42 mark, Hamilton's Dustin Boyd evened the game on his 17th of the year. A bouncing puck in the high slot was golfed out of the air by former Rivermen Aaron Palushaj and tipped by Boyd just outside of the crease.

Less than 3 minutes later, Ryan Russell gave the Bulldogs their first lead of the game at 10:12. Russell walked out of the corner and across the low slot and quickly backhanded a shot between the pads of Allen, who had lost his stick in some commotion just a few seconds before the goal. Hamilton's J.T. Wyman added an insurance goal at the 13:36 mark to extend the Bulldogs' lead to 3-1.

Allen recorded 25 saves in the loss while MacIntyre stopped 26 of 27 shots in the contest. Peoria finished the game 0-for-4 on the power play while the penalty kill went 4-for-5.

Peoria will head to San Antonio on Friday to open up its final road trip of the season. The Rivermen and Rampage will play at 7 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday before Peoria heads to Milwaukee on Sunday. The games can be heard locally on 96.5 ESP Radio or online through www.rivermen.net.

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