SOUND TIGERS 6, PHANTOMS 5 (OT)
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Box Score

Jeff Tambellini scored the overtime game-winning goal for the Sound Tigers to defeat the Philadelphia Phantoms by the score of 6-5. The Sound Tigers earned two points in an almost must win to keep pace in the East Division with both the Hershey Bears and Binghamton Senators. Both teams picked up points in the Senators 3-2 shootout victory over the Bears. Hershey holds the final spot in the East Division by three points over the Sound Tigers.

The first period started fast with each team looking to gain ground and secure playoff spots in the Calder Cup Playoffs. Both teams traded power-play goals within the first six minutes. Colton Fretter broke the scoreless tie 3:21 into the opening period when he banged home a pass from Scott Ford in the slot. Steve Regier also had an assist on Fretter's tenth tally of the season. Phantoms leading scorer, Jared Ross would even the score at one with his 22nd goal of the season, also coming on the power-play. Jason DeSantis and Stefan Ruzicka had the helpers on the goal coming 3:13 after Fretter's marker.

Tambellini would regain the lead for the Sound Tigers nearly two minutes later when he tapped a loose puck behind Phantoms' starting goalie Martin Houle for his team leading 32nd goal of the season. Ben Walter the team's leader in assists and Jeff Dwyer had the helpers on the tally to give the Sound Tigers the 2-1 lead. Boyd Kane would answer for Philadelphia with four minutes remaining in the first period. The goal was Kane's 18th of the season coming on the man-advantage with Ruzicka and Ross collecting assists, tying the score at 2-2. With less than a minute to go in the period, Ben Walter would give the Sound Tigers the 3-2 lead when he out-worked a Phantom defenseman in front of Houle and dove to poke the puck into the net. The goal was Walter's 20th of the season. Sean Bentivoglio and Tambellini assisted on the tally coming with 19 seconds remaining in the frame to make the score 3-2 entering the second period.

Philadelphia would waste little time in the second, tying the score at three when Ruzicka walked in from the left face-off dot and rifled a snap-shot over the shoulder of Sound Tigers' starting goaltender Joey MacDonald for the team's third power-play goal of the game. Ross and DeSantis assisted on Ruzicka's 18th tally of the season. Kyle Greentree would give the Phantoms their first lead of the game just over the half-way mark of the period when he scored his 21st goal of the season. Jonathan Matsumoto and Lars Jonsson assisted on the power-play goal coming at the mid-way point of regulation time. The Sound Tigers would go on their own man-advantage two minutes later. Jamie Fraser scored his third goal in the last four games, tying the score at four. On a set play that has Tambellini settle the play up in the corner, Fraser waited for his opening and snuck down behind the Philadelphia defense. Tambellini fired a pass to the back-post where Fraser one-timed the puck through Houle, for his ninth goal of the season. Walter got his second assist of the game on the game-tying goal.

With the energy from tying the game, the Sound Tigers went out and grabbed the lead in the third period. Tyler Haskins was able to clear the puck out of the Sound Tigers' zone and out-race a Philadelphia defensemen into the Phantoms' zone. Haskins slid a perfect pass to Tambellini in the left circle where the team's leading scorer did not pass up the opportunity, snapping a shot past Houle's blocker for the 5-4 Sound Tiger lead and his 34th marker of the season. Joey MacDonald and the Sound Tigers seemed to have the game won with less than two minutes to play but Ryan Potulny, whose haunted the Sound Tigers this season with eight points coming into the two teams' seventh meeting of the season tonight, tapped a rebound past the out-stretched left pad of MacDonald to tie the score at 5-5 sending the game into overtime.

After several grinding shifts contributed by various offensive pairings that Sound Tigers' head coach Jack Capuano put on the ice, Tambellini would snap a shot over the glove of Houle to complete his hat-trick. Tambellini streaked into Philadelphia's zone on a feed from Dustin Kohn, came off the right half-wall and buried his 34th tally of the season to win the game for the Sound Tigers, 6-5.

MacDonald earned the victory making 26 saves on 31 shots while his counterpart Houle stopped 26 of the 32 shots he faced. The Sound Tigers were 2-for-7 on the power-play while the Phantoms were 4-for-7 on the man-advantage.

3 Stars:

1. Jeff Tambellini - A five point night for the team's leading scorer (3 goals and 2 assists)
2. Ben Walter - Centering the team's top unit and contributing a goal and 2 assists
3. Jared Ross - 1 goal and 2 assists
Honorable Mention: Tyler Haskins: An incredible individual effort to assist to set up the teams' fifth goal

Game Operations: In the second intermission, the characters from the Wiggles took part in a game of musical chairs with students from the Hillcrest Middle School. The Wiggles were the first participants eliminated from the game.

Giddy-Up: After one of the most thrilling games of the season, the Sound Tigers' biggest game of the weekend lingers tomorrow night when they take the ice in Hershey to battle the Bears for the fourth and final playoff spot in the East Division. Meeting the team in Hershey is Jeremy Colliton, Blake Comeau, Kyle Okposo, Mike Morrison, Kip Brennan, Drew Fata, Matt Keith and Frans Nielsen to add to the offensive fire-power. The seven players were at Madison Square Garden taking on the Rangers and helping the Islanders defeat their cross-town rivals 4-3 in a shootout. Comeau and Okposo had tallies in the shootout while Wade Dubielewicz made several key saves.

Defense Wins Games...Not Tonight: The Sound Tigers and Phantoms put on a scoring spree tonight. With about eight minutes left in the second period the two teams had combined for eight goals. When the dust settled, the Sound Tigers had played in their highest scoring game of the season.

The Mad Hatter: Jeff Tambellini recorded his second hat-trick of the season tonight. The team's leading scorer now has 34 goals and 34 assists in 51 games played for the Sound Tigers this season. He also extended his point a game streak to seven games and tied Blake Comeau for the most points scored in a game by a Sound Tigers with five points.

Lineups

SOUND TIGERS

Forwards
7 Jeff Tambellini - 9 Ben Walter - 10 Sean Bentivoglio
39 Steve Regier - 23 Trevor Smith - 16 Tim Jackman
24 Peter MacArthur - 22 Colton Fretter - 25 Tyler Mosienko
55 Pascal Morency - 11 Tyler Haskins

Defensemen
50 Dustin Kohn - 6 Matthew Spiller
4 Mark Wotton - 40 Jamie Fraser
2 Jeff Dwyer - 19 Scott Ford

Goalies
35 Joey MacDonald (starter)
31 Michael Mole

PHANTOMS

Forwards
28 Boyd Kane - 18 Jared Ross - 14 Stefan Ruzicka
12 Triston Grant - 16 Ryan Potulny - 29 Darren Reid
4 Kyle Grenntree - 9 Pete Zingoni - 37 Jonathan Matsumoto
20 Josh Beaulieu - 25 Darroll Powe

Defensemen
23 Denis Gauthier - 7 Nate Guenin
36 Lars Jonsson - 8 Rory Fitzpatrick
27 Martin Grenier - 6 Jason DeSantis

Goalies
30 Martin Houle (starter)
32 Michael Teslak

Sound Tigers are 5 out with a few to go...It's not looking good right now...Hey Islanders Country..Lets make it up to the Bridge playoffs or not!

I'm in

:dancing:

Queenie they got two more home dates Friday the 11th versus Lowell and Sunday the 13th versus Hartford..I think i'm going to go to both games..But it would be cool if we can work out a meet and greet and Tigers cheering section in the Bridge..

Im there...


april 13th last game of the season vs hartford at 4pm...lets do it!

were in :dancing:

Im gonna have to get a Soundtigers jersey now lol :banana:

Soundtigers win in OT against Baby Pen's.

Blake Comeau scored the winning goal in OT to keep playoff hopes alive. :banana:


http://www.soundtigers.com/news/show?id=237

nice

:thumbsup:

Stick around after the game, the Zambonis are playing!

Tigers Playoff Update-

Tigers beat Lowell last night 6-1 Trevor Smithwith a Hat Trick, Jackman with 2 and Tamby with 1.

However HErshey Bears won last night as well, so they only need 1pt in the last 2 games to make the playoffs and kill the Tigers chances.

Tigers finish with a Home at Home with the Wolfpack! Go Tigers!!

Thanks!!

sounds like the islanders math for last season

Pretty much IQ, I just hope there is something to play for when you all go tomorrow! Win or lose it'd be pretty fun! :banana:

oh you KNOW it-- front row :drool:

ITS hockey-- and it will Kinda be like the isles...since so many of them were on our ice...

Tonight's Tigers-Pack game is gonna be a war..LETS GO TIGERS!
And even if tomorrow's game is meaningless...We still gonna rock out to the Zambonis!

Tigers run is over...Bridgeport loses 5-2 to Hartford tonite..

Tigers Playoff Run Update -

Well Folks the Tigers playoff hopes have been dashed. Hershey won 5-2 but worse then that the Tigers loss to the Wolfpack by the same score 5-2(One Empty Net).

Tim Jackman had 2 goals again giving him a total of 15G on the year so far.

HAve fun at the game and with the Zambonis! :banana:

:cry: I really wanted those guys to play a little while longer. For some reason I got attached to them this season. ;)
To everyone going to the game today, have a great time and say hi for me! :hello: