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Ice Bears Go Winless for the Weekend
date: 11/28/2010
Ice Bears Go Winless for the Weekend
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Huntsville, AL – Growing up, the life lesson that was passed down to you from a parental figure was “when life hands you lemons, make lemonade.” First year head coach Mike Craigen has stock piled the lemons this weekend and will look for a way to turn the current three game skid into something to build upon.
The Knoxville Ice Bears (5-8) finished a three game in three nights winless for the second time this season and now sit tied for the last playoff spot in the SPHL. This is uncharted waters for the Ice Bear faithful who are accustomed to sitting atop of the standings.
Knoxville started the evening strong, jumping on the scoreboard first at 7:24 in the first when rookie forward, Tyler Fletcher notched his first professional goal from a rebound shot from Chris Pontes.
The lead lasted until Shaun Arvai fired a long stretch pass to a streaking Stephen Margeson who slipped behind the Ice Bears defenders to break in alone on goaltender Bryan Hince to tie the game at 11:48 of the first period.
The give and take from the first period seemed to carry forward into the second with Knoxville pressing again. The pressure paid off on a scrum in front of the net when Mike Bulawka buried the puck at 2:27 to put the Ice Bears back on top 2-1.
With the home team trailing, Huntsville proceeded to poor it on Knoxville by recording four unanswered goals in the second period on tallies from Glenn Detulleo, Kamil Vavara, Mike Carter and Margeson to end the second period 5-2.
Craigen replaced goaltenders to relieve Hince and give veteran Andrew Gallant the nod for the third period. Knoxville played with plenty of emotion but was unable to stick to the game plan that proved successful during the first half of the game. They surrendered a power play goal to Huntsville’s Kyle Laughlin at 11:33 of the third to finish the scoring.
With the game out of hand, the chippiness of the game transitioned into undisciplined shenanigans from both teams resulting in two players being ejected from each team, filling the penalty box and leaving few players on the bench.
The Knoxville Ice Bears look to have a strong but short week of practice with the Ice Bears hosting two games this week - Thursday, December 2nd for “Two”-riffic Thursdays and Friday, December 3rd for the annual Teddy Bear Toss and a post game concert featuring 2008 Reality Show Winner, Melissa Lawson to raise awareness for diaperLove.com. Bring a box of diapers to the game on Friday and receive a free Melissa Lawson CD. All games are at 7:30 pm.
For more information and tickets please contact the Ice Bears office at 865-525-7825 or www.knoxvilleicebears.com.
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