The Rochester Americans have started out a five game road trip with their second straight win, tonight coming against the Chicago Wolves with a 4-3 victory.
Janis Sprukts didn’t fly in to Chicago until around 2:30pm and from there he still had to get to the arena for the game.* One would think flying half away around the world would cause some serious jet lag, but that wasn’t the case tonight.
Sprukts made his presence known early in the game with a great penalty kill along with David Brine working hard to clear the puck.
The first period saw the Amerks and Wolves trade goals with the period ending tied at two.
Drew Larman scored the the first goal of the game for the Amerks after he received an excellent pass from Repik from the right wing side.* Once the puck hit his stick he easily put it into the net.
Karl Stewart was called for a roughing penalty at 9:04 of the first that eventually led to the Wolves power play goal by Riley Holzapfel to gain the 2-1 lead.
As a play was about to be called for icing Stewart continued into a Wolves player and plowed him into the boards.* It was called roughing but probably could have been boarding or even charging.
The play of the game came next as Janis Sprukts scored his first goal of the game by stealing it away at the blue line and skating in untouched to score and tie the game 2-2 heading into the second period.
Tyler Plante was pulled after the first period and replaced by Mike Brodeur in net. . . FULL STORY
With that win, Rochester now has 42 points - 4 points behind Quad City (46) and six behind both Lake Erie and San Antonio (48). As for their league standing as a whole, they're now three points behind Norfolk (45) and three points ahead of Springfield (39).
Thirteen points ahead of Rochester, and with several teams in between, Chicago and Houston are tied with 55 points for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
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