UTES 6, SUNS 5
Friday, february 15
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FIRST PERIOD—(1) Team Utah, Brett Fuller (Erik Milliron, Jeremy Weiss), 2:40. (2) SV, Ryan Enrico 6 (Vilnis Nikolaisons, Jon Duval), 10:23, power play goal. (3) Team Utah, Weiss (unassisted), 13:32.
SECOND PERIOD—(4) Team Utah, Mike Spaughton (Eric Slaughter), 4:06. (5) SV, Paul Baranzelli 9 (Chris Warrington), 5:21. (6) SV, Cody Lampl 10 (Adam Swain, Baranzelli), 5:50. (7) SV, Enrico 7 (unassisted), 9:27, shorthanded goal.
THIRD PERIOD—(8) Team Utah, Weiss (Fuller, Bo Adams), 0:59. (9) Team Utah, Aaron Dufford (Adams, Slaughter), 4:56, power play goal. (10) SV, Mike Hanson 1 (John Miller, Warrington), 12:53, shorthanded goal. (11) Team Utah, Weiss (Fuller, Milliron), 14:34, hat trick and game-winning goal.
SHOTS ON GOAL—Team Utah 9-10-10 for 29; Sun Valley 15-15-17 for 47.
GOALIES—Team Utah, Quincy Martin (42 saves); SV, Ryan Thomson (23 saves, 4-2-0 record).
OFFICIALS—Referee, Jim Kimball; linesmen, John Olson and Pat Ballou.
NOTES—Adam Swain made a couple of good plays as the Suns scored 3 goals in a 3:06 span early in the second period to turn a 3-1 deficit into a 4-3 lead. Swain circled with the puck to the right of Utes goalie Quincy Martin and waited for Cody Lampl to come into the crease, and passed it at the right time. Near the blue line, Swain freed up the puck and poked it over to Ryan Enrico, who skated in for a shorthanded goal......The Suns had a rough time on the power play tonight, going 1-for-9. The home team was rusty after being idle for three weeks and also showed some signs of being disorganized, getting used to playing without a coach behind the bench.......Rusty from the three-week layoff like the rest of the Suns, captain Chris Warrington just couldn't keep the puck on his stick for most of the night. With his team trailing 5-4, he went to the net very hard but lost it again, only to regain possession and make a great centering pass to newcomer Mike Hanson for the shorthanded equalizer. The Suns had just finished killing off a power play when Team Utah scored the game-winning goal on two slick passes from Brett Fuller to Eric Milliron and a nice finish by hat trick scorer Jeremy Weiss.....Weiss was an American College Hockey Association (ACHA) Division All-Region West forward for Brigham Young University's hockey team in 2005. He grew up in Toronto, Canada and moved to Utah in the ninth grade. Weiss became Utah High School Hockey's all-time leader in career goals and total points. As team MVP and top scorer, he led Timpanogos High School to a state championship. He then moved back to Toronto to play two years of Junior "A" hockey in the Ontario Provincial Junior Hockey League. He served a full-time mission in Brazil for the LDS Church and returned to Utah to lead the Provo Ice Cats in scoring. Weiss has become active in coaching and team consulting in Utah youth hockey. His Weiss Tech Hockey is based in Provo.....The Suns nearly tied the game 6-6 in the closing moments, but goalie Martin went to his knees to stop an Ivars Muzis wrist shot from the point, then Eric Demment's blast from the point deflected off a player and trickled just wide past the pipe with 56 seconds on the clock.....Suns forward lines were Ryan Enrico-Jamie Ellison-Vilnis Nikolaisons, Cody Lampl-Adam Swain-Paul Baranzelli, Mike Hanson-Jon Duval-John Miller, Trevor Thomas-Charles Friedman-Cody Proctor. The defensemen were Ivars Muzis-Chris Warrington, Jeremy Schreiber-Eric Demment, Kris Webster-Josh Jacobson. Actually, Schreiber started out centering wings Hanson and Miller, and Duval was back on defense with Demment, but Schreiber dropped back on defense and Duval moved to center for the third period. Billy Cook was back-up goalie.
SUNS 12, UTES 5
Saturday, february 16
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FIRST PERIOD—(1) SV, Paul Baranzelli 10 (Adam Swain, Cody Lampl), 4:31, power play goal. (2) SV, Jamie Ellison 6 (Vilnis Nikolaisons, Ryan Enrico), 7:12. (3) Team Utah, Jeremy Weiss (Eric Milliron, Brett Fuller), 11:40, power play goal. (4) SV, Kris Webster 2 (Lampl, Baranzelli), 15:28.
SECOND PERIOD—(5) Team Utah, Darin Obray (Mike Spaughton), 2:30. (6) SV, Mike Hanson 2 (Jon Duval), 2:39. (7) SV, Nikolaisons 6 (Chris Warrington), 3:42, shorthanded goal. (8) Team Utah, Weiss (Obray), 6:02, shorthanded goal. (9) SV, Nikolaisons 7 (goalie Ryan Thomson, Jeremy Schreiber), 9:41. (10) Team Utah, Spaughton (Fuller, Bo Adams), 11:37, power play goal.
THIRD PERIOD—(11) SV, Eric Demment 5 (Charles Friedman, Ellison), 0:57. (12) SV, Warrington 7 (Ivars Muzis), 3:19. (13) SV, Nikolaisons 8 (Ellison, Schreiber), 4:46, hat trick goal. (14) SV, Swain 11 (Demment, Schreiber), 5:10, power play goal. (15) SV, Nikolaisons 9 (Ellison, Schreiber), 7:49. (16) SV, Friedman 2 (Rian Timmons, Schreiber), 11:06. (17) Team Utah, Adams (Nick Thiros), 14:33, power play goal.
SHOTS ON GOAL—Team Utah 12-11-9 for 32; Sun Valley 11-14-19 for 44.
GOALIES—Team Utah, Quincy Martin (32 saves); SV, Ryan Thomson (27 saves, 5-2-0 record).
OFFICIALS—Referee, Jim Kimball; linesmen, John Olson and Pat Ballou.
NOTES—The Suns were 2-for-4 on the power play tonight and 3-for-13 for the weekend. Team Utah was 3-for-12 tonight and 4-for-18 on the power play for the weekend...The 23-1-0 Suns team of last winter had a lofty 35% power play efficiency and this year's team is stuck on 26% through 12 games..... Weekend penalty minutes were Sun Valley 58 and Team Utah 36...Of the 28 combined goals scored this weekend, only 17 were even strength, meaning 11 were shorthanded (4) or on the power play (7).....Leading the Suns weekend scoring parade with 6 points was Nikolaisons (4 goals, 2 assists). Close behind was defenseman Jeremy Schreiber, who piled up 5 assists tonight, 4 coming in the third period when the Suns scored 6 unanswered goals....... Nikolaisons has 10 hat tricks in his 10-year Suns career topped by multi hat tricks in his two most prolific goal scoring seasons. By contrast, seventh-year Suns skater Paul Baranzelli has 12 hat tricks and 92 career goals. The Latvian had two hat tricks in his first Suns season, 1998-99 when he scored 21 goals in 22 games. Villie added three hat tricks in 2000-01 when he had 23 goals in 25 games. Tonight was the first time in his Suns decade that Nikolaisons scored 4 goals in a game......Team Utah's Jeremy Weiss topped the Utes with 5 goals and 1 assist for the 2 games. Right behind was Brett Fuller, a native of Cape Cod, Mass. who also played in the ACHA Division 2 collegiate hockey league for Weber State University and the University of Utah five or six years ago. Team Utah goalie Quincy Martin was a goalie for Weber State. After playing so well Friday night, Martin was a little under the weather tonight and seemed happy that the 12-goal Suns assault was finally over and done with......Nikolaisons (148 goals and 253 assists for 401 points) is drawing closer to all-time Suns scoring leader Bobby Noyes (195 goals and 213 assists for 408 points).....Last winter's scoring leader Jamie Ellison (145 goals, 240 assists for 385 points) has an outside chance to eclipse 400 points in the final 10 Suns games......After 12 games this season, the Suns all-time record in 778 games over 33 seasons is 543-206-29.
