ESTERO, FL – Wednesday night was the last of eight meeting between the Florida Everblades and the Toledo Walleye. Last night’s game at Lucas County Arena was stop number five on Florida’s northern road trip.
WEDNESDAY – @ Toledo – December 2, 2009 – TOLEDO-3 / FLORIDA-2 The Walleye jumped out in the lead and never let it go. They opened the scoring with a short-handed goal at just 3:00 of the first period by Adam Hobson. Maxime Tanguay added his own tally at 11:43. They continued to dominate and the Blades found themselves in a two goal deficit situation at the end of the first.
Toledo kept up their momentum with Chris Robertson making the score 3-0 early in the second period at 4:54. Florida Coach Malcolm Cameron had seen enough and pulled goaltender Mike Morrison after he let in 3 goals on just 18 shots. He was replaced by Barry Brust. Brust played well and kept Toledo from scoring the rest of the game. However, Florida was now down by a score of 3-0 at the second break.
It looked like Toledo might actually shut Florida out for the night. Finally, at 12:23 of the third, the Blades got on the board with a goal by Colin Nicholson. Jordan Morrison scored a quick one right after at 13:08. It then appeared as thought the momentum had changed for the Blades, but two goals just wasn’t enough tonight. The Walleye pleased their hometown crowd with a 3-2 victory over the Everblades.
GOALTENDERS: Win – TOLEDO – Alec Richards (stopped 31 of 33 SOG’s) Loss – FLORIDA – Mike Morrison (stopped 15 of 18 SOG’s) FLORIDA – Barry Brust (stopped 14 of 14 SOG’s)
POWER PLAY OPPORTUNITIES: Florida 0/3 Toledo 0/4
NEXT FLORIDA GAME: Friday, December 4th, @ Cincinnati, 7:30pm
NOTES: Florida’s right wing HARRISON REED is the Sher-Wood Hockey ECHL Player of the Week for November 23-29. He posted 7 goals and 12 points in four games. (The only other Blade honored this season has been Jacob Micfliker).
NOTES: Former Florida defenseman, ANTHONY AIELLO, has been traded to the Stockton Thunder for future considerations. Aiello, who is currently on the 7-day IR, has only played in three games with the Blades this season.
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