
Toivonen Stellar Again, Blanks Milwaukee 2-0
Published on March 11, 2011 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Rockford IceHogs News Release
Milwaukee, WI - Hannu Toivonen has his groove back. The Rockford IceHogs goalie made 28 saves and helped the IceHogs shutout the Milwaukee Admirals 2-0 on Friday night at the Bradley Center. During Rockford's season-long seven-game road swing, Toivonen had six decisions and went 4-0-1-1.
The shutout was his third of the season and the puckstopped even added his first assist of the season on the game-winning goal.
After two scoreless periods, Rockford struck midway through the third period. On their only power play, Rockford solved Mark Dekanich with a power play goal from Brian Connelly. After Milwaukee cleared a puck out, Toivonen set down the puck for Connelly who skated end-to-end and blasted his sixth goal over the shoulder of Dekanich at 12:49.
Igor Makarov would put the game out of reach when he dumped his eight goal of the season into the empty net at 19:39 to help Rockford finish off their road trip 4-1-1-1.
The IceHogs and Admirals skated to a scoreless first period on Friday. Rockford had six shots on Dekanich while Milwaukee fired eight in on Toivonen.
The second period was a similar story as both Toivonen and Dekanich turned away the opposition. Both teams chipped in 13 shots on goal in the frame and Milwaukee had the game's first two power-play chances.
Those were the only power play chances Milwaukee would get and the Hogs skated away with their third victory of the season in the Bradley Center.
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