STOCKTON, Calif. – A four-goal second period and another perfect performance from the penalty kill helped the Stockton Heat (18-2-2-1) finish off a weekend sweep of the Colorado Eagles (10-10-2-2) with a 5-2 win at Teddy Bear Toss, Saturday at Stockton Arena.
With the win, the Heat improved to 6-0-0-0 at home in December and completed a three-wins-in-four-nights gauntlet against divisional foes Colorado and Bakersfield.
The teams played to a scoreless stalemate in the first period, a tie that was broken 3:12 into the second with Jakob Pelletier notching his team-leading 10th goal of the season. Walker Duehr followed suit at the 15:16 mark, the first of a three-goal onslaught over a span of 2:46 with the back two coming from Eetu Tuulola and Luke Philp, the last of the three being shorthanded.
Colorado pushed early in the third, Ryan Wagner and Dalton Smith scoring in the first half of the period, but Duehr slammed the door with an empty netter for the decisive 5-2 score.
Dustin Wolf stopped 26 of 28 shots he faced on the night and earned his first AHL assist, coming on Tuulola’s goal.
