Wolf Pack defeat Sharks
January 8, 2010 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Connecticut Whale News Release
Worcester, MA - Corey Locke, the AHL scoring leader, and Dale Weise scored two goals apiece Friday night at the DCU Center, to lead the Hartford Wolf Pack to a 5-2 win over the Worcester Sharks.
The Sharks had won six straight games, and were 14-2-0-1 in their previous 17 coming into the game. The Wolf Pack (20-14-1-4, 45 pts.) moved to within one point of the third-place Sharks in the Atlantic Division.
Ilkka Heikkinen added a goal and an assist for Hartford, and P.A. Parenteau and Dane Byers had a pair of assists each. Matt Zaba made 29 saves in the Wolf Pack net.
The Wolf Pack outshot the the Sharks 13-9 in the first period, but gave up the first goal on a power play at 6:54. With Derek Couture in the penalty box for interference, T.J. Trevelyan put the rebound of a Derek Joslin shot past the stick side of Zaba, making his first appearance in the Hartford net since December 6.
The Pack tied it only 31 seconds later, also on a rebound. A strong rush up the slot by Parenteau was stopped by Worcester netminder Alex Stalock, but Heikkinen, trailing the play, was able to flip in the rebound on his backhand. It was Heikkinen's seventh goal of the season, tops among Wolf Pack defensemen, and second in the last four games.
Hartford jumped in front with a pair of second-period goals, the first of which came on a five-on-three power play at 5:24. Parenteau fed a pass across the slot from left to right to Locke, and Locke beat Stalock from the bottom of the right circle.
Weise then made it a two-goal Wolf Pack lead at 12:19. Nigel Williams hit Weise with a perfect breakaway feed at the Worcester line and Weise, even though he stumbled to the ice, had enough time to regain his feet and put a shot on Stalock. Stalock made the save, but the puck was dislodged and went into the net when one of Stalock's teammates collided with him.
Locke got his second of the game on a power play at 3:10 of the third, on a rebound of a point shot by Bobby Sanguinetti, before former Yale Eli Joe Callahan cut the Wolf Pack's lead to 4-2 with a power-play tally at 12:46. Weise then created the final margin with his second of the evening, and fourth in the last four games, with 4:28 left. Weise chipped the puck clear at the Wolf Pack line and then outraced Callahan back to it in the Worcester zone, before putting a shot past Stalock, who allowed five goals on 36 shots.
The Wolf Pack are now 3-0-0-0 in the season series against Worcester, have won five of their last six games overall and have at least a standings point in nine of their last 11 (7-2-0-2).
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