Peoria, IL – The Peoria Rivermen gave up six goals in the first two periods before eventually falling 7-5 to the Louisiana IceGators Friday night. The loss drops Peoria to 27-7-3 for the season with two games remaining with Louisiana in the current home series.
Louisiana started the scoring at the 3:56 mark of the first on a goal from John Daniels, assisted by Jake Hauswirth and Alex Hudson to make it 1-0. Mike Kavanagh doubled the Louisiana lead at 7:20 of the first with the IceGators on a five-on-three power play after penalties against Ben Oskroba and Dave Pszenyczny. The IceGators made it 3-0 at 9:30 of the first on another power-play goal from Dylan Hood, chasing Rivermen goaltender Kyle Rank from the contest less than halfway into the first period, when he was replaced for the rest of the night by David Jacobson.
Louisiana pushed their lead to 4-0 at the 1:20 mark of the second period on Hood’s second power-play tally. Peoria got on the board at 5:11 of the second when Ben Power put Alec Hagaman’s rebound past Louisiana goaltender Adam Courchaine to make it 4-1. The Rivermen got the score to 4-2 at 13:01 of the second when a power-play rush resulted in a rebound to former IceGator Chris Wilson, who buried it for the Rivermen. Louisiana rebuilt their lead with an even strength marker at 16:35 of the second and a power-play goal from Zac Frischmon at 18:38 to make it 6-2 after two periods.
Peoria got a goal back at 9:51 of the third period when Mike Gurtler flipped a puck from the side of the Louisiana net over Courchaine’s shoulder and under the crossbar to make it 6-3. Louisiana pushed their lead to 7-3 nine seconds later when Daniels walked across the goalmouth and beat Jacobson. Peoria got back on the board with a deflection goal by captain Dan Bremner at 12:32 to make it 7-4. The Rivermen cashed in on a four-on-three power play courtesy of an Adam Stuart goal with 13 seconds left in the game to make it 7-5.
Rank made five saves on eight shots faced in goal before being lifted at 9:30 of the first period. Jacobson stopped 16 of 20 shots he saw between the pipes to take his first loss as a member of the Rivermen, dropping him to 8-5-0 in his SPHL career.
Notes: Rivermen coach Jean-Guy Trudel was ejected and issued a game misconduct for Verbal Abuse of Officials at 19:33 of the first period…Peoria defenseman Jack Callahan recorded two assists for his first career multi-point game…Bremner’s goal is his first since January 15 in Huntsville…Rivermen defenseman Brandon Greenside notched an assist to give him a point or more in each of his last five games…The Rivermen return to action Saturday night with a 7:05 rematch against the IceGators…
Text provided by Peoria Rivermen Media Release
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