BOISE, ID – The Idaho Steelheads (52-10-1-2, 107pts) picked fell on home ice for the first time since January 13th and the first time overall since March 4th falling to the Kansas City Mavericks (30-27-6-2, 68pts) by a final score of 3-2 Friday night at the Idaho Central Arena in front of 5,153 fans. It was the 31st sellout in the 33rd home game including the 30th straight. Idaho and Kansas City will wrap up their season series tomorrow night at 7:10 p.m.
Late stages of the first period Idaho on their second power-play of the frame it would be Ty Pelton-Byce (18th) finding the back of the net with a wrist shot in the top right corner at 17:45 with assists from Owen Headrick and Matt Register. Idaho led 1-0 after the first 20 minutes of play despite being outshot 10-6.
Zach Walker (6th FM) and Josh Elmes (8th FM) dropped the gloves in the early stages of a second period which featured no scoring and shots favoring the Steelheads 5-4.
Cole Coskey scored twice (20th) in the third period his first 71 seconds in and then giving Kansas City the lead at 11:30. Idaho pulled Adam Scheel with 2:47 to play in regulation and generated a lot of good chances but Mathieu Foget (14th ) found the back of an empty-net with just with 1:46 to play. Zane Franklin (17th) did find the back of net on assists from Ryan Dmowski and Ty Pelton-Byce with just three seconds remaining.
Adam Scheel made 19 saves on 21 shots in the loss while Dillon Kelley turned aside 20 of the 22 he faced for the victory.
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