The Belleville Senators kicked off their three-game New York road trip in dominating fashion, with 10 different Sens registering at least a point, in a 4-1 win over the Rochester Americans at Blue Cross Arena on Wednesday night.
Rourke Chartier opened the scoring for the Senators with just under four minutes left in the first period, scoring a shorthanded marker, for his fourth goal of the season. Chartier found the puck out of a crowd in the Belleville end and went coast-to-coast, with Jiri Smejkal playing decoy on the left side, before firing a wrist shot past Devon Levi. Belleville took the 1-0 lead to the intermission, with the shots tied at nine each.
The Amerks would score the only goal of the second at 10:25 when Mason Jobst pounced on a puck in front of Mads Sogaard on the power play. The Senators had some periods of smothering control in the offensive zone in the frame, and outshot Rochester 13-9.
Belleville busted the game open in the third with three unanswered goals. Angus Crookshank would bang in the eventual game-winner just past the 10-minute mark of the frame, Josh Currie gave the Sens a two-goal lead just over two minutes later and Garrett Pilon rounded out the scoring by breaking in off the wall and tucking the puck past Levi to make it 4-1.
Belleville outshot Rochester 36-28 in the game.
Fast Facts:
- #9 Angus Crookshank scored his 19th goal of the season, extending his point streak to six games (four goals, five assists) and was named the game’s first star.
- #10 Zack Ostapchuk had an assist and is on a three-game point streak (two goals, one assist).
- #14 Rourke Chartier scored his fourth goal of the season (shorthanded) and has points in back-to-back games (one goal, one assist).
- #18 Josh Currie scored his ninth goal of the season and was named the game’s third star.
- #21 Max Guenette had an assist to extend his point streak to four games (four assists).
- #22 Garrett Pilon scored his 12th goal of the season of the season.
- #23 Cole Reinhardt had an assist.
- #33 Lassi Thomson chipped in with an assist.
- #39 Jiri Smejkal notched an assist.
- #40 Mads Sogaard stopped 27 of 28 shots against and was named the game’s second star. His 45th victory ties Filip Gustavsson for most wins by a goaltender in Belleville Sens franchise history.
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