ECHL: Big Third Period Lifts Icemen Past Gladiators, 4-2
(FLORIDA SPORTS WIRE)
JACKSONVILLE - The Jacksonville Icemen pulled away from the Atlanta Gladiators in the third period for a 4-2 victory Friday night at Veterans Memorial Arena.
Brody Crane tallied the game winner. Zach Jordan and Peter Tischke recorded the helpers.
The Icemen went ahead 3-1 on Olivier Nadeau’s power-play lamplighter before the Gladiators Joey Cipollone scored his sixth goal of the season and second of the game to make it close.
Nadeau just returned to the Icemen after a stint with Rochester of the AHL. Nadeau’s empty netter rounded out the scoring.
The Icemen were coming off a 5-3 loss on Thursday to the Orlando Solar Bears.
Brian Wilson made 37 saves for the Icemen. Drew DeRidder stopped 32 shots for the visitors.
The game went into the final 20 minutes tied, 1-1.
Justin McRae knotted the contest with his second goal of the season, assisted by Noah Laaouan and Ty Cheveldayoff.
Atlanta’s Joey Cipollone opened the scoring at 4:36 of the first period. Cody Sylvester and Patriks Marcinkevics picked up the assists.
Jacksonville’s Carter Allen mixed it up with Ryan Cranford. Both went off for five minutes at the end of the second period.
The Icemen are home again Saturday night for a 7 p.m. faceoff with Savannah.