For the week of March 13 - 19, 2002

Hockey Summary

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Suns 7, Boston 3
Friday

Boston Hockey Club 1 2 0 3
Sun Valley Suns 1 4 2 7

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FIRST PERIOD—(1) BHC, Dates Fryberger (Cam Petke, Ross Sealfon), 11:51, power play goal. (2) SV, Jon Bender 4 (Scott Winkler, Vilnis Nikolaisons), 15:21.

SECOND PERIOD—(3) SV, Winkler 10 (Scott Carmack, Kit Hughes), 3:02. (4) SV, Winkler 11 (Nikolaisons, Jamie Ellison), 3:25. (5) SV, Ellison 21 (Nikolaisons, Bender), 5:33. (6) SV, Winkler 12 (Ellison, Nikolaisons), 6:34, hat trick goal. (7) BHC, John Boudreau (unassisted), 16:29, power play goal. (8) BHC, Anthony Trase (Tim Chase, Ian Goodale), 19:35, power play goal.

THIRD PERIOD—(9) SV, Tom Forti 11 (Tim Tracy), 2:11. (10) SV, Winkler 13 (Nikolaisons), 13:35.

SHOTS ON GOAL—for Boston 6-5-10 for 21; for Sun Valley 12-9-19 for 40.

GOALIES—Boston, Brendan Macauley (33 saves); SV, Matt Gershater (18 saves, 12-0-0 record).

OFFICIALS—Referee, Bobby Noyes; linesmen, Scott Sivulich and Steve Glines.

NOTES—Jon Bender, the only Suns player not to score a point against the Dallas South Stars March 1-2, rectified that by scoring the first of 14 Suns goals this weekend….Defenseman Ivars Muzis, frustrated after being tripped without a penalty being called, was charged with "intent to injure the referee," after he shot the puck in the direction of referee Bobby Noyes late in the third period—with the game’s outcome well in hand. Noyes assessed Muzis with a rare match penalty. What that means, Noyes explained, is that Muzis is suspended for 30 days, basically for the rest of the season, or until a hearing is conducted by the local Sun Valley Suns association. Noyes gave no indication whether such a hearing would be held before April. "I wouldn’t be surprised if Ivars is done for the season," said player/coach Chris Benson….Nikolaisons picked up his first penalty of the season, a high stick in the second period….Third-year goalie Matt Gershater has a 20-1-1 career record in the Suns cage…The first line of Winkler, Ellison and Nikolaisons had 13 of 19 Suns points….Winkler had the first 4-goal game since Luke Smith notched a pair of 4-goal efforts in a three-game span starting a year ago against Boston….Boston’s Dates Fryberger, a Sun Valley product, had 19 goals and 41 points in two Suns seasons. He scored the first goal of the weekend.

 

 

 

Suns 7, Boston 5
Saturday

Boston Hockey Club 2 2 1 5
Sun Valley Suns 1 3 3 7

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FIRST PERIOD—(1) SV, Joe Lawson 7 (John Stevens, Kris Webster), 8:15. (2) BHC, Boudreau (unassisted), 10:59. (3) BHC, Chase (unassisted), 18:44, power play goal.

SECOND PERIOD—(4) SV, Forti 12 (Chris Benson, Bender), 14:02. (5) BHC, Boudreau (unassisted), 14:51. (6) SV, Nikolaisons 19 (Lawson, Stevens), 15:53. (7) BHC, James Misakian (Boudreau, Bill Henderson), 17:04. (8) SV, Paul Baranzelli 16 (Tracy, Forti), 19:33.

THIRD PERIOD—(9) BHC, Chase (unassisted), 12:44. (10) SV, Lawson 8 (Stevens, Benson), 14:50, power play goal. (11) SV, Ellison 22 (Benson, Forti), 19:35, game-winning goal. (12) SV, Chas Riopel 6 (Tracy, Stevens), 19:51, empty net goal.

SHOTS ON GOAL—for Boston 7-12-7 for 26; for Sun Valley 11-15-11 for 37.

GOALIES—Boston, Macauley (30 saves); SV, James Moskos (21 saves, 11-1-0 season).

OFFICIALS—Referee, Scott Sivulich; linesmen, Richard Winkler and Steve Glines.

NOTES—Tonight’s crowd for the annual Brett Sammis Benefit was 220 paid and nearly 300 in attendance…. Ben Stauffer didn’t play because of a thumb injury….A couple of nice transition passes by Chris Benson and Joe Lawson led to the second and third Suns goals, by Forti and Nikolaisons….Sun Valley’s forward lines were Winkler-Ellison-Nikolaisons, Riopel-Lawson-Stevens, Carmack-Forti-Benson. With the absence of Muzis, rotating were the five blueliners Baranzelli, Kit Hughes, Tracy, Webster and Bender….The George Jacket recipient, Muzis, was a no-brainer, Benson said….Leading the weekend scoring was Nikolaisons (1-5 for 6). The Suns continued their balanced scoring with 14 different point-getters.….Forti (4 points weekend) has scored at least 1 goal in five of the last six Suns games….Ellison (94-152 for 245), Nikolaisons (73-124 for 197), Riopel (96-126 for 222) and Stevens (73-111 for 184) continue to move up on the all-time scoring list. With his empty net goal, Riopel moved past Billy Tryder into 10th-place on the all-time Suns scoring list…. Benson (148-147 for 295) is 5 points away from the 300-point mark….Moskos wasn’t too busy, but he made two huge saves—with the glove on Ross Sealfon late in the second period and the Suns trailing 4-3, and on a John Boudreau breakaway in a 4-4 game early in the third….Penalty killing has been a Suns strength this season, in fact, the home team seemed to play better shorthanded than on the power play against Boston. Last season, opponents were 21-for-82 on the power play. This year it’s 18-for-104, meaning opponents are on the power play more and scoring less….Last year the Suns scored 175 goals in 25 games, this year it’s 176 goals in 24 games. The team has an outside shot of breaking the Suns single-season scoring record of 199 goals set in 1983….The Suns have struggled on the power play the last two weekends, 2-for-12, after going 10-for-19 in the four previous games. Boston was 4-for-17 this weekend on the power play, the Suns 1-for-8….Locals Cody Lampl and Justin Taylor skated for Boston…The Suns may be short of defensemen for the Jackson Hole trip, with Muzis out and Tim Tracy gone that weekend for business.

 

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