T-Devils Shut Out Chiefs, 5-0
THREE STARS
1. Brad Mills - 3 goals, +4, 6 shots
2. Colin Pepperall - 4 assists, +4
3. Dave Caruso - 19 saves, shutout
*The hat trick was Mills' first career goals as a professional.
**Pepperall is the first T-Devil to record four points in a game.
Score update: Cincinnati 8, Wheeling 2
With the Wheeling loss, Trenton now has sole possession of fifth place in the division.
Standings up to date:
Cincinnati 44 points
Elmira 43
Reading 36
Dayton 31
T-DEVILS 23
Johnstown 21
Wheeling 21
Great win for the T-Devils tonight over the division-rival Chiefs. Trenton came into the night tied for fifth in the division with Johnstown and Wheeling. They sent Johnstown home with no points and Cincinnati helped out with a win over Wheeling.
On to the game...
The Red and Black pretty much controlled the game from the drop of the puck. The first period went back and forth for a while until Brad Mills took a holding penalty with just under three minutes left. The T-Devils got two breakaway chances from this point until the end of the period. One from Joe Rooney and one from Mills fresh out of the penalty box. Rooney shot it right into the midsection of Johnstown goalie Mike Brown; but Mills fired a wrister over his glove with 2.7 seconds left to put Trenton up 1-0.
I thought the goal was huge because the T-Devils totally outplayed the Chiefs and had they not have scored, the period would have been considered a "win" for Johnstown going into the 2nd tied 0-0.
Stephen Wood scored to make it 2-0 6:45 into the second to put Trenton up 2-0. It was a simple wrist shot that hit a piece of Brown before it went in, it was definitely one Brown would have liked to have back. Jim Henkel netted his sixth of the year after taking a pass from Colin Pepperall from behind the net and beating Brown. Mills scored his second of the game on a one-timer from Eric Castonguay with under three minutes left in the second.
Brown was pulled after two periods in favor of Ryan Nie.
Nie was beaten once by Mills to record the hat trick midway through the third period. He took a pass from Pepperall and beat Nie from in close in the crease.
Dave Caruso got his first shut out in over a year making 19 saves. His last blanking performance came as a Gwinnett Gladiator playing against Augusta Lynx on December 9, of '06. It was a relatively non busy night for him as the T-Devils defense clamped down and did not allow many good scoring chances. Caruso slid across and batted the puck out of mid air with the shaft of his paddle in the second period to rob Alexandre Imbeault.
1. Brad Mills - 3 goals, +4, 6 shots
2. Colin Pepperall - 4 assists, +4
3. Dave Caruso - 19 saves, shutout
*The hat trick was Mills' first career goals as a professional.
**Pepperall is the first T-Devil to record four points in a game.
Score update: Cincinnati 8, Wheeling 2
With the Wheeling loss, Trenton now has sole possession of fifth place in the division.
Standings up to date:
Cincinnati 44 points
Elmira 43
Reading 36
Dayton 31
T-DEVILS 23
Johnstown 21
Wheeling 21
Great win for the T-Devils tonight over the division-rival Chiefs. Trenton came into the night tied for fifth in the division with Johnstown and Wheeling. They sent Johnstown home with no points and Cincinnati helped out with a win over Wheeling.
On to the game...
The Red and Black pretty much controlled the game from the drop of the puck. The first period went back and forth for a while until Brad Mills took a holding penalty with just under three minutes left. The T-Devils got two breakaway chances from this point until the end of the period. One from Joe Rooney and one from Mills fresh out of the penalty box. Rooney shot it right into the midsection of Johnstown goalie Mike Brown; but Mills fired a wrister over his glove with 2.7 seconds left to put Trenton up 1-0.
I thought the goal was huge because the T-Devils totally outplayed the Chiefs and had they not have scored, the period would have been considered a "win" for Johnstown going into the 2nd tied 0-0.
Stephen Wood scored to make it 2-0 6:45 into the second to put Trenton up 2-0. It was a simple wrist shot that hit a piece of Brown before it went in, it was definitely one Brown would have liked to have back. Jim Henkel netted his sixth of the year after taking a pass from Colin Pepperall from behind the net and beating Brown. Mills scored his second of the game on a one-timer from Eric Castonguay with under three minutes left in the second.
Brown was pulled after two periods in favor of Ryan Nie.
Nie was beaten once by Mills to record the hat trick midway through the third period. He took a pass from Pepperall and beat Nie from in close in the crease.
Dave Caruso got his first shut out in over a year making 19 saves. His last blanking performance came as a Gwinnett Gladiator playing against Augusta Lynx on December 9, of '06. It was a relatively non busy night for him as the T-Devils defense clamped down and did not allow many good scoring chances. Caruso slid across and batted the puck out of mid air with the shaft of his paddle in the second period to rob Alexandre Imbeault.
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