Thunder Complete Comeback with Four-Goal Third Period
December 29, 2013 - Central Hockey League (CHL)
Wichita Thunder News Release
Wichita, KS (December 29th) - For the second-straight night, Wichita (11-14-4) mounted a third-period comeback Sunday afternoon to take down the St. Charles Chill (7-19-4) by the final of 5-2 at INTRUST Bank Arena. Jon Madden and Jesse Dudas sparked a four-goal final period while Jon Booras finished with a goal and an assist. Wichita wins the regular season series 3-1-1 over the Chill and moves eight points clear of St. Charles in eighth place.
With a little over a minute remaining in the first period, St. Charles grabbed a 1-0 lead when Anthony Perdicaro caused a turnover behind the Thunder net, fed a pass to the slot for Andrew Conboy who beat Taylor Nelson to the blocker side.
The Chill added to its lead in the second when Perdicaro wristed a shot from the right circle that got through traffic and beat Nelson at 15:29. Two minutes later, a collision between Madden and Conboy occurred as the two were heading for a loose puck in the Thunder end. Conboy lost an edge, took a hard fall into the end boards and had to be helped to the locker room. Immediately after, the official gave the Chill a bench minor for abuse of officials and Wichita made them pay. Ian Lowe kick-started the Thunder rally with a goal at 17:56 from the slot cutting the lead to 2-1 on the power play.
Similar to last night, Wichita took the ice for the final period trailing 2-1. It wouldn't take the Thunder long to even the score. Madden caught a pass on a two-on-one from Nick McParland and beat Linus Lundin 33 seconds in. Jesse Dudas potted the game-winner at 11:15 on the power play as he one-timed a laser past Lundin's glove to the upper corner. At 16:41, Matt Summers picked off a cross-ice pass and buried it to increase the lead to 4-2. Booras tallied an empty-netter with less than 30 seconds remaining to help the Thunder come away with a 5-2 decision.
Wichita earns six points on the weekend. The Thunder pushes its winning streak to four-straight, which is a season-high while the Chill have lost six in a row. Matt Robinson had an assist to push his point-streak to six games (4g, 9a). Booras also extended his point-streak to six games with his two-point outing (5g, 7a). Dudas (8g, 16a) moves into a first-place tie with Andrew Martens (5g, 19a) in the scoring race for blue liners. Nelson earns his eighth win of the season, stopping 19 of 21 shots. Lundin takes the loss, stopping 41 of 45 shots.
Wichita went 2-for-5 on the power play. St. Charles was 0-for-4.
Wichita closes out a busy stretch of four games in five days Tuesday night on New Year's Eve in Allen against the Americans at 6:05 p.m.
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Central Hockey League Stories from December 29, 2013
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