Wolf Pack Beat Moose, 6-3

January 6, 2009 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Connecticut Whale News Release


Winnipeg, Manitoba, January 6, 2009: Artem Ansimov scored a pair of power-play goals, and P.A. Parenteau struck for the Hartford Wolf Pack's first three-assist game of the season, as the Wolf Pack defeated the Manitoba Moose 6-3 Tuesday at the MTS Centre.

Corey Potter also notched a goal and an assist, and Bobby Sanguinetti chipped in two assists, as the Hartford power play went 3/6 against a Manitoba penalty-kill that came into the game ranked second in the AHL at 87.6%. Guillaume Desbiens scored two of the Moose's three goals.

The Wolf Pack power play struck for a pair of goals in the first period, both by Anisimov. At 10:29 a rebound of a Parenteau shot went off of Manitoba starting goaltender Karl Goehring right to Anisimov, and he put the puck home from the right-wing side of the goalmouth. Then at 16:05, an attempted centering pass by Anisimov from near the right wing corner was inadvertently knocked into the net by Goehring, who was being pressured by Brodie Dupont.

Greg Moore made it 3-0 for the Wolf Pack at 5:33 of the second period, as his shot off left wing hit a Moose defender's stick and deflected inside the post to Goehring's left. The Wolf Pack chased Goehring from the game only 1:34 later with their third power play goal of the game. Corey Potter took a pass in the left circle from Parenteau and scored his third goal of the season.

Patrick Rissmiller put Hartford up 5-0 1:13 into the third period with an unassisted goal, beating relief netminder Cory Schneider with a wrist shot to the stick side. The Moose, though, ruined Miika Wiikman's shutout bid with two goals in 60 seconds starting at 6:34. First Nolan Baumgartner put in a sharp-angle shot from the left-wing side and then Desbiens took a pass from Jason Krog and went backhand to forehand before hitting the top corner on the glove side.

Mike Ouellette got one of those goals back for the Wolf Pack on a rebound of a Jordan Owens shot at 10:15, before Desbiens created the final margin with his second of the game with 49 seconds left.

Hartford scored its six goals on only 21 shots. Wiikman made 25 saves in the Wolf Pack net.



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