(PR) The Trenton Devils earned their first win of the season by beating the previously undefeated Wheeling Nailers in a shootout Saturday night at WesBanco Arena by the score of 5-4.
Chris Poli and Tyler Burton scored the shootout goals for Trenton while Jeff Frazee turned aside all four shots in the shootout to earn his first professional victory.
The Devils got on the board first with Ryan Gunderson’s shot from the blue line on the power play at the 13:09 mark of the first period.
The power play continued their good fortune when Matt Cohen’s shot trickled through Nailers goaltender Curtis Darling for a 2-0 Devils lead 2:35 into the second. The Nailers got on the board less than a minute later when Aaron Clarke scored on a breakaway.
The two-goal lead returned for the Devils when Poli’s wrist shot from the corner manage to find its way into the net at 7:11 of the second period. After the second intermission, Trevor Kell’s deflection from a Gunderson slap shot at 3:35 at the third gave the Devils a 4-1 lead.
However, the Nailers would not give up. With three unanswered goals, two of them on the power play; the Nailers fought back to tie the game at four and force overtime.
After the scoreless extra frame, the Devils would prevail in the shootout, as Burton and Poli both went top shelf to beat Darling, and Frazee looked strong in his shootout debut in stopping all the Nailers’ attempts.
The power play was the story for both teams, as Trenton went 4-for-5 and Wheeling went 3-for-4 with the man advantage. Frazee made 39 saves to earn his first professional victory.
October 26, 2008 at 11:16 am
I’m missing your wonderful photos and video clips! Of course you can’t make the road trips. Does somebody blog the Nailers?
It looks like this is a clip of last night’s bout between #25 Akeson and #5 Berner — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A74uMfXJKDA — but I’m not sure that’s Akeson, the number looks more like #24 as if it was Harrison. So it must have been a different game, right?? Sorry that I couldn’t find clips from the shootout or any of the goals.
October 27, 2008 at 12:22 am
That is Harrison, Paul Roper said the scoresheet had it wrong and for some reason Akeson was listed. Harry’s started to improve his fighting skills!
October 27, 2008 at 4:31 am
I’ll be back on Thursday to cover the game against the Chiefs at SBA…I don’t know if there are any other ECHL blogs out there. If you guys can find any, feel free to post them or send them along so I can link to them.