CUTTHROATS 7, SUNS 6 (ot)
friday, february 13
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Missoula Cutthroats
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Sun Valley Suns
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FIRST PERIOD—(1) Missoula, Dustin Thompson (Mike Roesch), 3:30. (2) SV, Jon Duval 2 (Jamie Ellison), 3:55. (3) SV, Billy Tryder 4 (Eric Demment, Ryan Enrico), 5:05. (4) SV, Paul Baranzelli 6 (Caleb Baukol, Taylor Rothgeb), 7:09. (5) Missoula, Mike Roesch (James Wiscombe, Thompson), 12:22. (6) SV, Eric Demment 2 (Tryder), 13:26. (7) Missoula, Townsend Hall (George Sauer), 18:29.
SECOND PERIOD—No scoring.
THIRD PERIOD—(8) SV, Enrico 6 (Tryder, Adam Swain), 5:09. (9) Missoula, Dereck Vesledahl (Brandon Baker), 8:55. (10) Missoula, Thompson (Hall), 10:18, power play goal. (11) Missoula, Mike Roesch (Wiscombe), 16:15, shorthanded goal. (12) SV, Vilnis Nikolaisons 1 (Duval), 18:35.
OVERTIME (5 minutes, 4-on-4)—(13) Missoula, Mike Roesch (Bennet Burns), 0:39, power play, hat trick and game-winning goal.
SHOTS ON GOAL—Missoula Cutthroats 20-16-15-2 for 53; Sun Valley 14-17-17-0 for 48.
GOALIES—Missoula Cutthroats, Josh Skinner (42 saves); SV, Ryan Thomson (46 saves, 4-4-0 record).
OFFICIALS—Dave Patrie and Chris Benson.
NOTES—On three separate occasions, the Suns built 2-goal leads, only to have Missoula storm back with three unanswered goals in the third period—the last two on the power play and shorthanded—to seize a 6-5 advantage late in the third period....Defenseman Paul Baranzelli became the 10th Suns player with 100 career goals, in eight seasons.....This weekend's Suns guest coach was Suns Hall of Famer John "Cub" Burke..... SV forward lines were Jon Duval-Jamie Ellison-Vilnis Nikolaisons, Ryan Enrico-Billy Tryder-Adam Swain, and Taylor Rothgeb-Charles Friedman-Caleb Baukol/Noah Loyd. Duval spent some time early in the game as center with veterans Ellison and Nikolaisons, but Ellison returned to his normal center position for the third period and overtime session.....Defensemen were Paul Baranzelli, Ivars Muzis, Matt Alloway, Jeremy Mylymok and Eric Demment. Captain Chris Warrington was out-of-town. And the back-up goaltender was Chris Edwards..... Missoula, 0-4 over the last two seasons in its visits to Sun Valley by 8-3, 4-3, 12-11 and 8-3 scores, lost to the Jackson Hole (Wyo.) Moose 8-6 and 5-3 during the season-opening Moose series at Snow King Center Nov. 7-8....Suns goalie Ryan Thomson made a scintillating glove save on Missoula's Brandon Baker on a Cutthroats power play in the second period, with the Suns still nursing a 4-3 lead.....The Suns continued to struggle on the power play. For the season Sun Valley is 6-for-57 (11%) on the power play, while opponents are 15-for-55 (27%) including Missoula's 5-for-12 in man-advantage situations this weekend.
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cutthroats 8, suns 7 (ot SHOOTOUT)
SATURday, february 14
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Missoula Cutthroats
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Sun Valley Suns
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FIRST PERIOD—(1) SV, Jamie Ellison 5 (Vilnis Nikolaisons, Jon Duval), 9:09. (2) SV, Cody Proctor 3 (Charles Friedman, Taylor Rothgeb), 12:13. (3) Missoula, James Wiscombe (Dustin Thompson, Mike Roesch), 18:07.
SECOND PERIOD—(4) Missoula, Thompson (Mike Roesch), 4:09, power play goal. (5) SV, Eric Demment 3 (Billy Tryder), 5:32. (6) SV, Duval 2 (Jeremy Mylymok), 6:39, shorthanded goal. (7) Missoula, Thompson (unassisted), 7:28, power play goal. (8) Missoula, George Sauer (Matt Tschider), 8:08, power play goal. (9) Missoula, Wiscombe (Thompson, Mike Roesch), 11:31.
THIRD PERIOD—(10) SV, Adam Swain 3 (Ryan Enrico, Paul Baranzelli), 11:48. (11) Missoula, Mike Roesch (Thompson), 14:31. (12) SV, Demment 4 (Mylymok, Nikolaisons), 18:58.
OVERTIME (5 minutes, 4-on-4)—No scoring.
OVERTIME SHOOTOUT—(13) SV, Ellison 6. (14) Missoula, Thompson, hat trick goal. (15) Missoula, Seth Romocki, game-winning goal.
SHOTS ON GOAL—Missoula Cutthroats 10-15-8-3 for 36; Sun Valley 24-26-16-6 for 72.
GOALIES—Missoula Cutthroats, Josh Skinner (65 saves); SV, Ryan Thomson (28 saves, 4-5-0 record).
OFFICIALS—Chris Benson and Eric Wingard.
NOTES—With his two goals tonight, 13th-year center Jamie Ellison (151-250 for 401) went over the 400-point mark for his Suns career. Leading the way is all-time leader Vilnis Nikolaisons (152-263 for 415) and all-time goal scoring champ Bobby Noyes is next (195-213 for 408)......SV forward lines were Jon Duval-Jamie Ellison-Vilnis Nikolaisons, Ryan Enrico-Billy Tryder-Adam Swain, and Cody Proctor-Charles Friedman-Taylor Rothgeb/Noah Loyd.....The Cutthroats did a good job all weekend getting their sticks down on the ice, backchecking to stop Suns breakout passes.....After the Suns squandered a 4-2 lead by letting Missoula score three unanswered goals at the end of the middle period, the Suns needed a lift. Great forechecking by center Billy Tryder and his linemates set up the game-tying fifth goal midway through the third period. Paul Baranzelli and Enrico relayed the puck between each other behind the Missoula net, and Enrico centered to Swain, who jammed the puck home with authority.....Then, Missoula punched home the go-ahead goal at 6-5 with five-and-a-half minutes left in the game. At that point Suns coach John Burke made a couple of changes in his forward lines to get a little more offensive firepower. He brought Baranzelli up from defense and stationed him at center with wings Ryan Enrico and Adam Swain, and he shifted center Billy Tryder to the third line with wings Charles Friedman and Cody Proctor......Tonight's Suns defensemen were Paul Baranzelli, Ivars Muzis, Matt Alloway, Jeremy Mylymok and Eric Demment. The back-up goaltender was Bobby Farrelly....Missoula's 5-8, 190-pound Mike Roesch had the hat trick and the overtime game-winning goal Friday night, and he added a goal and three assists tonight. Hailing from Northbrook, Ill. near St. Louis, the 25-year-old Roesch was a star forward from 2002-06 for the University of Illinois hockey club in the American Collegiate Hockey Association. In fact Roesch was the ACHA's "Player of the Year" as a junior in 2005 when he led Illinois to the ACHA national championship. In 132 games over four seasons the left-shooter scored 88 goals and 104 assists for 192 points including an amazing 38 goals and 37 assists in 36 games during the 2005 national title season. In his senior year Roesch had 20 goals and 41 assists for 61 points as Illinois lost in the ACHA national tournament semi-final to Penn State 1-0, and the University of Rhode Island went on to beat Penn State 3-1 for the 2006 national championship.....Roesch (4 goals, 4 assists this weekend) and weekend point leader Dustin Thompson (5 goals, 4 assists) were thorns in the Suns side all weekend. Missoula youth hockey coach Thompson had the hat trick Saturday, two coming on the power play and the third in the shootout.....Sixth-year Suns goalie Ryan Thomson (42-17-0, 8-6-0 OT) has played in goal in 14 of the last 16 Suns overtime games.....The Suns are now 32-27-20 in 79 overtime games over 34 seasons, and Sun Valley is 6-10 in 16 shootouts since 1998.....Jamie Ellison, the leading Suns game-winning OT scorer with three winners, was the first shooter tonight and he made his shot. The Suns as the home team had the option to go first or second in the OT shootout, and sent Ellison out first against Josh Skinner.....Leading Suns scorers for the weekend with 4 points apiece were Jon Duval (2-2), Billy Tryder (1-3) and Eric Demment (3-1)....The Suns outpointed Missoula 32-30 and outshot the Cutthroats 120-89.......Missoula goaltender Josh Skinner (65 saves) was superb in the overtime period and had Jeremy Mylymok, Ryan Enrico and Paul Baranzelli talking to themselves. A minute into the sudden-death period, Skinner stopped Idaho Steelheads Hall of Famer Mylymok in the crease, after a fine centering pass from Enrico. Later Skinner stopped Enrico's best bid with his pad, and he made a huge save with his glove on Baranzelli's testing wrist shot with 1:46 on the clock. In addition, Eric Demment's blistering slapshot from the point, after a Vilnis Nikolaisons drop pass, grazed off the near post with 2:48 remaining in the five-minute extra stanza. Then, in the shootout, Skinner went to his knees to stop Sun Valley's third and final shooter, Baranzelli, and was mobbed by his teammates at the Cutthroat net......This weekend was the first time in 34 seasons that the Suns have been swept in back-to-back overtime games on the same weekend. Nine years ago, during the 1999-00 campaign, Sun Valley fell 7-6 in overtime to Seattle Indians and 7-6 in overtime to Powell River (B.C.), but the games were separated by two weeks. And the Suns had 4-4 overtime ties with the Minnesota Express on Dec. 14-15, 1990......The Suns have endured losing seasons in 1999-00 (9-14-1) and 1984-85 (6-11-1).......The last time the Suns dropped three games in a row was the end of last season, all at home, 4-1 to Jackson Hole Moose and 10-9 (OT) and 9-7 to East Coast Gutter Snipes.....
