Wildcatters Go Down Swinging to IceGators, 4-3
Published on January 17, 2004 under ECHL (ECHL)
Texas Wildcatters News Release
Beaumont, TX (January 17, 2004) â The Texas Wildcatters hosted the Louisiana IceGators for the second time in as many nights in a fight-filled 4-3 IceGators win. Wildcatters forward Tony Lawrence opened up the scoring in the first for the second straight night as he intercepted a pass and went coast-to-coast to record his 11th goal of the year. The goal extended Lawrence's goal scoring streak to four games. The lead would not last long as Dennis Shiryaev took a pass from Jim Vickers and Konstantin Kalmikov to tally his tenth of the season. Louisiana took the lead at the 14:02 mark of the first stanza as Bobby Brown scored a power-play goal from Ben Storey and Rod Sarich. Wildcatters netminder Davis Parley turned away 27 of the 29 shots he faced in the opening period to set the ECHL season high for saves in the first period.
The IceGators dominated on the man advantage in the second period as Samir Ben-Amor and Alex Materukhin each tacked on power-play goals to increase the Gators' lead to three after two periods.
The Wildcatters responded at the 4:55 mark of the third period as Brian Passmore tallied a power-play goal from Mike McKay and John Campbell. Texas cut the IceGators lead to one at the 12:52 mark of the third as John Campbell took a pass from goaltender Davis Parley and raced the length of the ice to record his second goal of the season. However, the Wildcatters were unable to add another goal on the scoreboard as they fell to the IceGators 4-3. After the buzzer, Louisiana's Milt Mastad speared Aaron McInnis, leading to a bench-clearing brawl. In all, six fights took place, including one between goaltenders Parley and Derek Gustafson. The two teams combined for 235 penalty minutes.
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