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Hartford
captain Steven Fogarty scored the game-winning goal
in the fifth round of the shootout in a 4-3 win over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms Saturday night.(Photo courtesy Lehigh Valley Phantoms) |
Wolf
Pack captain Steven Fogarty ended the game with a goal in the fifth round of
the shootout, making a move to his backhand and putting a shot high into the
net behind Lehigh Valley goaltender Alex Lyon (23 saves). Danny O’Regan
also scored in the shootout for the Wolf Pack, who had been 0-5 in previous
shootouts. Tom McCollum made 29 saves for his second consecutive win in
the Hartford net, and went 4-for-5 in the shootout.
Lehigh
Valley outshot the Wolf Pack 14-4 in the first period, and the Phantoms opened
the scoring at 5:11, on a goal from the right circle by Andy Welinski.
A
shot by Morgan Frost from the left side went wide, and the puck caromed off the
end boards to Welinski, who slapped it past a sliding McCollum.
The
Wolf Pack tied the score only 12 seconds into the second period, with Shawn
McBride scoring his second goal in 23 games on the year. Ty Ronning took
a lead pass from Darren Raddysh and moved into the Lehigh Valley end on left
wing, before firing a shot that went off of Lyon and up into the air. It
came down into the goal crease, and McBride shoved it into the net.
Ronning picked up an assist for his first point in 13 AHL games on the season.
The
Phantoms regained the lead only 4:12 later, though, at 4:24, on a power-play
goal by Cal O’Reilly. With Raddysh in the penalty box for interference,
Welinski broke up a Wolf Pack pass in the Lehigh Valley zone, and a long Greg
Carey feed sent Andy Andreoff into the Hartford zone. He dropped the puck
off to O’Reilly, who moved to his right and put a low backhander past McCollum.
The
Wolf Pack equalized again with 3:27 left in the second, when Nick Jones batted
the puck out of the air in the goalmouth, knocking it behind Lyon. That
was off of a rebound of a Joey Keane shot from high in the slot, after Fogarty
passed the puck out of the left-wing corner.
Lehigh
Valley had another quick answer, though, right off a faceoff at 18:45.
Andreoff won a draw from O’Regan in the circle to McCollum’s left, and Frost
drove a shot from the top of the circle past McCollum on the glove side.
The
Wolf Pack got a good bounce once again to draw back even at 8:12 of the third
period. Matt Beleskey scored his 15th of the year to make it 3-3, after a
slap shot by Mason Geertsen from the left point went wide of Lyon’s stick
side. Beleskey picked up the carom off of the end boards and rapped the
puck into the net from the left side of the goalmouth.
Lyon
stopped O’Regan on a breakaway late in overtime, but Andreoff was the only one
of five Lehigh Valley shooters to solve McCollum in the shootout, McCollum’s
first in a Wolf Pack uniform.
The
Wolf Pack are now off until this Friday night when they head to Springfield to
meet the Thunderbirds in a 7:05 p.m. contest. The Wolf Pack’s next home
game is on Saturday when they will host the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins at 7
p.m. It will be “Hartford Hockey Heritage Night,” as the Wolf Pack
celebrate over 40 years of Hartford hockey history. The first 2,00 fans
into the game that night will receive a free 2020 Wolf Pack Sonar bobblehead,
presented by Xfinity.
—Staff Reports
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