Game Results

Andreas Holmqvist had a power play assist today but it was not enough to arrest Linkopings' continued free fall. The club lost to Lulea 5-2. Linkopings now slips to 7th on the Elitserien table.

Break up the Otters.

Kevin Beech stopped 39 shots in regulation and overtime, then both of Guelph's shootout attempts to give the Erie Otters a 4-3 shootout win over the Storm. This is second straight victory (and third in the last four games) for the Otters, who improve to 12-32-1-2 on the season. Despite only being acquired 3 weeks ago, Beech now has one-quarter of the Otters wins on the year (3-1-1). This is the second straight shootout win for Erie over Guelph, who is 23-15-2-7 for the year.

Beech earned first star honors for the game, but it could be said he truly earned it in the third period, when the Otters were outshot 15-8, and overtime, when he turned aside 5 more shots. In all, the Otters were outshot 42-29 for the game.

In the WHL, Dane Crowley returned to the Everett lineup after missing two games with the flu and extended his goal-scoring streak to three games as Everett topped Portland 5-3 in Everett. Crowley scored the eventual game winner at the 14:32 mark of the third period. He was also plus-1 for the game. Crowley is 3-1-4 and plus-5 in 4 games with the WHL's top team, Everett. He was 4-15-19 and minus-2 in 33 games with Swift Current.

Dusty Collins was scoreless and even in Northern Michigan's 4-2 loss to Minnesota-Duluth. In 28 games this season the senior has 2 goals and 2 assists, 14 PIM and a -7 rating.

The Wildcats are 11-15-2 overall and 8-11-1 in the CCHA sitting tied for 8th place with Lake Superior.

Unfortunately, this Falcons team just doesn't have a second line to speak of, and it's very difficult for them to come from 2 goals down as a result.

SPR-2
MAN-4

Karri Ramo stopped 28 of 31 shots faced in the loss. Springfield got 1 goal and 1 assist from Daniel Corso and a pair of helpers from Eric Healey. The other Falcons goal came from a suddenly red hot Doug O'Brien who has had goals in three of the last four games. Norm Milley also chipped in an individual helper.

First Period
SPR O'Brien, (5) (Corso, Healey), 4:14 (PP)

Second Period
MCH O'Sullivan, (17) (Murray, Jackman), 7:00
MCH Tukonen, (9) (Kemp, LaBarbera), 10:49
MCH Schmidt, (4) (Murray, O'Sullivan), 13:40 (SH)

Third Period
SPR Corso, (10) (Milley, Healey), 12:01
MCH Gauthier, (9) , 19:11 (EN)

Game sheet from TheAHL.com.

Dimitri Kazionov scored his 9th goal of the season in Kazan's 3-1 win over SKA. Anton But was scoreless for St. Petersburg.

Vasily Koshechkin found goal support in short supply as he allowed just 1 goal but still saw his Togliatti club fall to Omsk 2-0. Koshechkin slips to 14-11-4 this year with the loss.

Evgeny Artyukhin was scoreless in Yaroslavl's 3-0 win over Magnitogorsk.

Alexei Glukhov had an assist in Cherepovets' 4-3 win against Khimik

Denis Kazionov did not play in Tver's 2-1 loss to Novosibirsk.

Albert Vishnyakov did not play in Dynamo's 7-1 dismantling of Salavat Yulayev.