
Thunder Back on Track, Win 6-2 over Lincoln
March 18, 2016 - United States Hockey League (USHL)
Bloomington Thunder News Release
BLOOMINGTON, Illinois - The first period was a prediction of how theBloomington Thunder's win over the Lincoln Stars would go. The team turned onan offensive surge against the Stars right from the get go, turning in a 6-2win to take wins in eight of their last nine games. Bloomington (32-18-3-1)picked up two more points toward the Clark Cup Playoffs. Lincoln (31-20-1-0)fell to second place in the Western Conference, snapping a three game winstreak in the loss.
Logan Lambdin (Michigan State University)was the number one star of the game on the score sheet and helped the Thunderto the win. He began the scoring on a power play goal under three minutes intothe first. Off of a first period season high of 18 shots, Lambdin put theThunder up in an unconventional way. JeremyDavies (Northeastern University) sent the puck below the goal line to theMichigan State commit who made his way to the net. Shooting the puck from belowthe goal line, Lambdin banked it off goaltender Patrick Virtanen to open the scoring. Virtanen suffers the loss tothe Thunder making 27 saves in the game.
Lambdin would come back inthe second to tally his 26th of the season. Less than two minutesafter Lambdin fed Jake Slaker (St.Lawrence University) in the slot, he would take one himself. Down the rightwing into the zone, he cut to the front of the net to tuck it in with less thantwo minutes left in the second period.
Seven minutes into the firstperiod, the Thunder took the 2-0 advantage into the break. Steven Merl (University of Michigan) fired a shot off the shoulderof Virtanen and coming in for the rebound was the Thunder's top scoring rookie.Vlad Dzhioshvili (Cornell University)fired the puck into the net with his sixth goal of the season.
In the second the Stars wereable to cut the lead in half when BiagioLerario (Northeastern University) found a loose puck in the slot and put itoff the post on the right side of the net. Both Tanner Laczynski (Ohio State University) and Ryan Poehling (St. Cloud State University) earned assists on the 14thof the season for the future Husky.
Slaker's goal in the secondgave him four goals in his last five games. The feed from below the goal line wasfed to the front for Slaker to tap it in. The scoring charge carried over intothe third period. Wyatt Kalynuk (WesternMichigan University) fired the puck from the left point and it carried intothe net. Kalynuk's third of the season came against his former team to take a5-1 lead with over 17 minutes to play in the game.
Logan Halladay (Merrimack College) picked up the win for the Thunder off of 28saves in the game. He also came away with one of the biggest saves of theseason in the second on Ludvig Hoff(University of North Dakota).
The Stars added one more on afive-minute major power play, but it was too little too late. The goal by Mike Gillespie was his fourth of theseason to make it 5-2 with six minutes to play.
All over the ice was Blake Gober (Penn State University) whowas rewarded for his efforts. In the first period he was stopped on abreakaway, the second hit the post, and the third added an empty net goal. His11th of the year was shorthanded to seal the win.
BOX SCORE: http://bit.ly/1SZXztY The Thunder and Stars battlewith more playoff implications on the line. Bloomington took home the first ofthe weekend series but will drop the puck at 7 p.m. for game two. The Thunderare in fourth place in the Eastern Conference trying to clinch with six gamesleft in the regular season.
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