Wolf Pack Fall to Devils 5-4
December 28, 2008 - American Hockey League (AHL)
Connecticut Whale News Release
Lowell, MA, December 28, 2008: Michael Swift had a goal and two assists, and South Windsor, CT-bred Jon DiSalvatore had a goal and an assist, to lead the Lowell Devils to a come-from-behind, 5-4 victory over the Hartford Wolf Pack Sunday at the Paul Tsongas Arena. The Wolf Pack built leads of 2-0, 3-1 and 4-3, but could not hold on.
Artem Anisimov led the Hartford attack with a goal and an assist.
The Wolf Pack jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period, with unassisted goals 2:07 apart by Tom Pyatt and Anisimov. Pyatt capitalized on a mistake by Lowell goaltender Jeff Frazee at 13:01, as Frazee tried to play the puck outside the crease and missed it. Pyatt jumped on the loose puck and deposited it into the vacated goal for his seventh goal of the year. At 15:08 Anisimov set himself up with a shorthanded breakaway when he worked the puck away from Tyler Eckford at the Hartford blueline. Anisimov finished the play with a move to the backhand to beat Frazee.
Rod Pelley got the Devils on the scoreboard at 4:27 of the second period, snapping a shot from the slot past the stick side of Hartford goaltender Matt Zaba. P.A. Parenteau answered that on a Wolf Pack power play at 7:05, on a one-timer from the left circle, set up by a perfect pass from Bobby Sanguinetti. Lowell got the next two, however, starting at 12:18, when DiSalvatore fed Swift with a pass in the slot for Swift's third goal of his rookie season. Swift returned the favor with only three seconds left in the period, dishing to DiSalvatore, who moved right to left across the slot and put a backhand shot back against the grain and behind Zaba on the glove side.
The Wolf Pack went ahead again only 1:59 into the third session on another shorthanded goal, this one by Mike Ouellette, who walked past a Devil defender inside the Lowell blueline before beating Frazee. The two shorthanded goals in the same game tied a Wolf Pack franchise record. Lowell struck back on the same man advantage only 29 seconds later, however, as Matthew Corrente found the net on a shot from the top of the circles, after he had an initial try blocked.
The Devil power-play unit generated the game-winner at 3:51, 1:23 after Corrente's goal, when Barry Tallackson, as he was falling to the ice, shoveled the puck past Zaba and into the top of the net. The play was started by a long pass by Swift.
The Wolf Pack outshot Lowell 34-24 in the game. Frazee made 30 saves to get the win.
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