The Checkers’ skid continued in their return to home ice, as an early hole proved to be too much in a 4-2 loss to Rochester.
After the Checkers came out strong with a slew of their own chances to start the game, it was the Americans who broke the ice with a tally just under three minutes into regulation. The visitors pounced on that momentum from there and knocked in another pair of tallies less than a minute apart to amass a towering three-goal lead before the seven-minute mark of the opening frame.
The Checkers settled down following that flurry and kept the chances flowing toward the Rochester net. They finally cracked the Rochester defense early in the third to cut into their lead when Riley Nash knocked in a slick feed from Logan Hutsko, but they couldn’t quite get the comeback off the ground. An Amerks’ empty-netter was answered with a Patrick Giles strike in the waning seconds of regulation, but despite pumping 47 shots on goal across the night the Checkers came up on the short end of a 4-2 final score.
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