SUNS 7, MOUNTAINEERS 6 (OT SHOOTOUT)
Friday, January 2
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FIRST PERIOD—(1) SV, Jamie Ellison 1 (Jeremy Mylymok, Ryan Enrico), 15:14, power play goal. (2) McCall, Brian Herbert (Roy Mitchell, Cal Ingraham), 17:36.
SECOND PERIOD—(3) McCall, Herbert (Ingraham), 0:58. (4) McCall, Aaron Roberge (Adam LaBarbera), 8:55. (5) McCall, LaBarbera (Roberge), 9:25. (6) SV, Paul Baranzelli 1 (unassisted), 15:52. (7) SV, Billy Tryder 1 (John Stevens), 17:34. (8) SV, Stevens 1 (John Miller, Eric Demment), 19:59, shorthanded goal.
THIRD PERIOD—No scoring.
OVERTIME (5 minutes, 4-on-4)—No scoring.
OVERTIME SHOOTOUT—(9) SV, Enrico 1. (10) McCall, Ingraham. (11) SV, Baranzelli 2. (12) McCall, Shawn Rynes. (13) SV, Mylymok 1, game-winning goal.
SHOTS ON GOAL—McCall 7-10-10-3-3 for 33; Sun Valley 21-16-11-5-3 for 56.
GOALIES—McCall, Tony Davenport (49 saves); SV, Ryan Thomson (27 saves, 1-0-0 record).
OFFICIALS—Dave Patrie and John Olson.
NOTES—A star tonight on offense and defense, Paul Baranzelli scored twice and now has 96 Suns career goals. He appears a lock to become only the 10th Suns skater to score 100 goals or more....With 3:04 left in the third period, it looked like McCall had broken the 4-4 tie when Cal Ingraham deflected home a shot from the point. But the goal was disallowed because Ingraham was in the crease.....The Suns put some great pressure on McCall goalie Tony Davenport in the five-minute OT. Chris Warrington cranked up a low tester that Davenport turned aside at 1:54, then Jamie Ellison juiced up an absolute cannon from dead-on in the slot at 0:10, but it flew high off the glass.....With the Suns making all three of their attempts in the shootout, thanks to Ryan Enrico, Paul Baranzelli and Jeremy Mylymok, the difference turned out to be the first shooter, McCall's Adam LaBarbera from Burnaby, B.C., who elected to go to his backhand against Ryan Thomson and scooped it wide of the net, no good.....Sixth-year Suns goalie Thomson (39-13-0, 8-4-0 OT) has played in the goal in 12 of the last 14 Suns overtime games. He lost his first OT game 7-6 to McCall in March 2004 and then won seven straight before dropping two in a row last winter, to Innisfail and East Coast Gutter Snipes. Tonight's 7-6 OT outcome and that 7-6 OT game four years ago are the only OT game in the six-year, 28-game series between Sun Valley and McCall........The Suns are now 32-25-20 in 77 OT games over 34 seasons, and Sun Valley is 6-9 in 15 shootouts since 1998. Here is a list of game-winning OT scorers in Suns history: Jamie Ellison 3, Paul Baranzelli 2, John Finnegan 2, Kurt Wenzell 2, Phil Hoene 2, Paul Cartmill 2, Ryan Enrico 2, Adam Swain 1, Jeremy Mylymok 1, Vilnis Nikolaisons 1, Eric Demment 1, Luke Smith 1, Brian Watts 1, Tom Forti 1, Dale Johnson 1, Mark Broz 1, Pat Kearney 1, Rip Kirby 1, Terry Heneghan 1, Chas Riopel 1, Brian Saksa 1, Beets Johnson 1, Phil Hebert 1 and Sean O'Connell 1....SV forward lines were Ryan Enrico-Jamie Ellison-Vilnis Nikolaisons, Spencer Brendel-Jon Duval-Blake Jenson, John Stevens-Billy Tryder-John Miller. The three defensive pairs were Chris Warrington-Matt Alloway, Eric Demment-Jeremy Mylymok, Ivars Muzis-Paul Baranzelli.....McCall's top lines featured Brian Herbert-Brett Gallagher-Cal Ingraham and LaBarbera-John Hill-Aaron Roberge. Dependable former Sun Valley Suns defenseman John Howell and Troy Edwards were the main blueliners.....While the teams were warming up for tonight's Suns home season debut, former Idaho Steelheads and Sun Valley skater Mike Hanson, 30, appeared as a winning contestant on "Wheel of Fortune" tonight on CBS television. Boise-based insurance man Hanson won a trip and cash on the show, according to the Idaho Statesman newspaper. His appearance was filmed Oct. 17 in Culver City, Ca. He told the Statesman that his mother-in-law dragged him to the contestant search and he advanced through the final auditions. Hanson, who scored 4 goals in four games for the Suns last winter, was probably best known for his game-winning goal in a 5-4 home victory over the Jackson Hole (Wyo.) Moose last Feb. 29.
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MOUNTAINEERS 3, SUNS 2
Saturday, January 3
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FIRST PERIOD—(1) McCall, Cal Ingraham (Scott Dowd), 19:12.
SECOND PERIOD—(2) SV, Blake Jenson 1 (Billy Tryder, Spencer Brendel), 9:10. (3) McCall, Brett Gallagher (Cal Ingraham, Brian Herbert), 17:18.
THIRD PERIOD—(4) SV, Jamie Ellison 2 (Ryan Enrico, Jeremy Mylymok), 3:23. (5) McCall, Gallagher (Ingraham, Herbert), 10:17, game-winning goal.
SHOTS ON GOAL—McCall 8-15-6 for 29; Sun Valley 23-14-14 for 51.
GOALIES—McCall, Tony Davenport (49 saves); SV, Ryan Thomson (26 saves, 1-1-0 record).
OFFICIALS—Bobby Noyes and Chris Benson.
NOTES—"Beat the Sun" winner on his first try, through the center hole, was young Cade Street.....Sun Valley Suns skater Cody Proctor suited up for McCall tonight and spent some time with forwards Adam LaBarbera and Aaron Roberge. Roberge, a 6-4,220-pounder from Post Falls in northern Idaho, skated with the WHL Portland Winter Hawks from 2001-04 and spent two seasons with the Trail (B.C.) Smoke Eaters from 2004-06, scoring 37 goals with 102 points in 92 games.....McCall brought plenty of well-traveled talent to Sun Valley, starting with 38-year-old Cal Ingraham, the 5-5, 160-pounder from Georgetown, Mass. who was the leading scorer with 46 goals in 45 games for the University of Maine's first NCAA Division 1 championship team, in 1993. That team compiled an amazing 42-1-2 record. Ingraham, who started his college career at Air Force Academy where his brother Bob Ingraham was a fine defenseman, went on to play minor league hockey for three years with the ECHL Tallahassee (Fla.) Tiger Sharks. Then he became a Hall of Fame player for four years for the WCHL Idaho Steelheads, scoring 175 goals in 274 games with 381 total points from 1998-2002.....Ingraham was the right wing this weekend. His center at Sun Valley was Brett Gallagher (2 goals tonight including the game winner), a three-year Air Force Academy letterman who co-captained the 1991-92 hockey team in Colorado......The left wing on Gallagher's line was Brian Herbert, 30, a 6-1, 205-pounder from Langley, B.C. who scored 56 goals in four years for Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. South Surrey/Powell River's Herbert scored a pair of goals Friday and Ingraham (2 goals, 4 assists) ended up as the top point man for the series.....The two-official system tonight featured
Bobby Noyes and former Suns coach Chris Benson. Between them, they have 35 years of Suns playing experience and 355 Suns goals......It looks like the Suns are using the two-official system this season to save a little money, about $100 per game, over the standard three-official (referee and 2 linesmen) system.....Sun Valley had won six of the last seven games against McCall before tonight. McCall still leads the 28-game, six-year series 15-12-1.
