Wolves allow season highs in shots, goals
Left wing Brett Sterling netted 2 goals, and Guillaume Desbiens added a short-handed goal, but it wasn't enough as the Chicago Wolves fell to the Peoria Rivermen 7-3 on Friday night at Carver Arena in Peoria.
The loss marked just the second for the Wolves in regulation in 17 games this season, and just the second to Peoria in the last seven meetings.
Peoria's 7 goals and 50 shots on goal were the most allowed by the Wolvers this season.
The Rivermen (7-7-0-2) opened a 4-1 lead when center Julian Talbot picked up a loose puck in front of the net and put it past Wolves goaltender Robert Gherson at the 1:04 mark of the second period. The goal chased Gherson, who was replaced by Fred Brathwaite.
Gherson (3-2-0) stopped 18 of 22 shots before Brathwaite made 25 saves in 38:56 of relief duty.
Peoria opened the scoring at 12:54 of the first period when right wing Mike Glumac redirected a Ryan Glenn shot past Gherson. The Rivermen then
used goals from Charles Linglet and Ryan Reaves in a 34-second span late in
the opening period to make it a 3-0 lead.
Sterling tallied Chicago¹s first goal of the night 22 seconds into the
middle frame. While on the power play, he took a cross-ice pass from
linemate Jason Krog and fired it top shelf past Peoria goaltender Chris
Beckford-Tseu. Beckford-Tseu (1-1-0) turned away 15 of 18 shots in
the win.
After Talbot put the Rivermen ahead 5-1 with his second goal of the
night, Chicago made the score 5-2 when Desbiens netted his first goal of the
year with a wrist shot off a two-on-one break past Beckford-Tseu at 13:39 of
the middle frame.
The Wolves cut the Peoria lead to 5-3 when Sterling potted his second
goal of the night at 16:19 of the second stanza.
Left wing Jean-Guy Trudel scored on the power play at 14:15 of the
third period and Talbot put home a rebound past Brathwaite for his third
goal of the night just 1:02 later to close out the scoring at 7-3.
The Wolves begin a season-high five-game home stand tomorrow night when they
take on the Rockford IceHogs at the Allstate Arena at 7 p.m.