Gamblers gewinnen, Dejdar bleibt ohne Punkt

Junior hockey: Gamblers stun No. 1 RoughRiders

By Aaron Wallender
Press-Gazette correspondent

ASHWAUBENON — The Green Bay Gamblers mobbed Eric Pfligler in congratulations as the final horn sounded in Friday night’s game against Cedar Rapids.

The Gamblers’ goaltender certainly deserved his teammates’ praise as he earned his second straight shutout and led Green Bay (23-15-5) to a 3-0 win over the RoughRiders in front of a season-high crowd of 4,639 at Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena.

Pfligler stopped all 22 shots he faced and extended his scoreless streak to eight periods as the Gamblers won their third straight.

“I’ve just been real confident and playing really well,” Pfligler said. “Whenever you get back-to-back shutouts, that gives you a lot of confidence, especially for the playoffs.”

The turning point came early in the third period. With the Gamblers clinging to a 1-0 lead and Cedar Rapids on a power play, Gamblers center Chris Michael stole the puck in the RoughRiders zone.

Michael then put a shot on Cedar Rapids goaltender Bobby Goepfert, who gave up the rebound. Right wing Joe Crabb put the puck home to give the Gamblers a 2-0 lead and a little breathing room.

“We look at it as we want to create offense out of the penalty kill,” Osiecki said of the Gamblers’ unit, which has scored a United States Hockey League-high 11 shorthanded goals. “Chris Michael did a great job defensively of reading the play, and it was good to see (Crabb) bury it.”

Unlike the Gamblers 2-0 win over Waterloo on Wednesday night, the offense was fluid and effective against the first-place RoughRiders, especially in the third period.

Green Bay dominated the final period, outshooting the RoughRiders 21-6 and holding Cedar Rapids to virtually no scoring chances.

“We want to play like the old (Chicago) Blackhawks style where they’re a bunch of crazed dogs out there going nuts,” Osiecki said. “That’s how our team has to be. We have to play energy and keep that energy up.”

SCOREBOARD
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Cedar Rapids 0 0 0 — 0
Green Bay 1 0 2 — 3


First period — 1, GB, Plude 5 (Hansen, Venard), 5:50.

Second period — No scoring.

Third period — 2, Crabb 12 (Michael), 2:17 (sh); 3, GB Michael 13 (Greene, Crabb), 19:19 (en).

Shots on goal — Cedar Rapids 8-8-6—22. Green Bay 12-10-21—43.

Power-play opportunities — Cedar Rapids 0 of 4. Green Bay 0 of 4.

Goalies — CR, Goepfert 21-9-4 (42 shots-40 saves); GB, Pfligler 22-10-4 (22-22).

Attendance — 4,639.

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Niederlage fr die Gamblers:


Junior hockey: Stampede blanks the Gamblers


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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Sioux Falls Stampede jumped out to an early lead over the Green Bay Gamblers and never let up in a 4-0 United States Hockey League victory at Sioux Falls Arena on Saturday night.

The Gamblers, who had outscored their opponents 11-1 in their last three games, were playing their second game in two days and it showed.

“Our forwards were tired and they didn’t play as well as they can,” Green Bay coach Mark Osiecki said.

Gamblers goalie Eric Pfligler had his shutout streak of more than 105 minutes end just 43 seconds into the second period as Jacob Micflikier netted the first of his two goals to give the Stampede (31-12-1) a 1-0 lead.

Pfligler had 31 saves for the Gamblers (23-16-5). Stampede goalie Kellen Briggs made 25 stops for the shutout.

SCOREBOARD
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Green Bay 0 0 0 — 0
Sioux Falls 0 2 2 — 4

First period — No scoring.

Second period — 1, SF, Micflikier (Jensen), :42; 2, SF, Fylling (Jensen, Vannelli), 12:12.

Third period — 3, SF, Micflikier (un), 2:41; 4, SF, Smith (LeTourneau) (pp), 19:26.

Shots on goal — GB, 6-11-8 — 25; SF, 9-12-14 — 35

Power-play opportunities — GB, 0 of 4; SF, 1 of 9.

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Der reisst da ja irgendwie überhaupt nix.Der sollte vielleicht gleich nach der Saison da bleiben

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