News release
27 January 2006
Danbury, CT The Elmira Jackals climbed out from a 3-0 hole to beat the Danbury Trashers 5-4 Friday night at the Danbury Ice Arena.
A week after dropping a 2-0 lead at home to Danbury, Elmira earned its just revenge back in Connecticut. Danbury jumped out early on the Jackals, Danny Stewart scored on a scramble in the crease to make it 1-0 Trashers at 9:50 of the opening period. 22 seconds later Donny Grover scored from long range for a two-goal lead. Troy Smith scored at 16:58 of the first to give Danbury their largest lead of the game, 3-0, but then Elmira started their remarkable turn-around. All-Star Jarrett Konkle blasted home a power play goal from the blue line at 18:23, assisted by Chris Chaput and Konstantin Kalmikov, a goal that reversed the momentum of the game and seemed to bring Elmira to life.
Head Coach Perry Florio opted to bring Nick Boucher off the bench to start the second period in goal for the Jackals, replacing starter Ryan McIntosh. Boucher blanked Danbury during the middle frame, allowing Elmira the chance to claw themselves back into the game. First it was Josh Tataryn scoring his second goal as a Jackal, knocking home a rebound from Chris Mann and Carl Drakensjo to cut the lead to one at 7:36. Then captain Trevor Burgess beat Sylvain Daigle with a wrist-shot from the point at 12:43, which tied the game, assisted by Drakensjo and Josh Piro. Elmira out-shot Danbury 13-7 in the second period.
The Jackals kept the pressure on the home team and wasted little time in taking the lead. The Next Mayor of Elmira Eddy Lowe collected a rebound from Florian Iberers shot at 0:39 into the third period, spun around in front of the crease and slipped the puck past Daigle for a 4-3 lead. But the Jackals did not stop there. Chris Chaput took advantage of a miscommunication between Daigle and J.M. Daoust to tap in an unassisted goal at 4:57 of the third for a 5-3 lead, Elmiras 5th straight goal. With 40 seconds remaining in the game Danbury made a last ditch effort to retaliate. Eric Lind scored at 19:40 with the Danbury net empty to pull the Trashers back within a goal, but it was too late and Elmira took the two points with the 5-4 win.
Nick Boucher earned his 6th win of the season by stopping 18-of-19 shots for Elmira over the final two periods of the game. Ryan McIntosh was 7-of-10 in the first period. Sylvain Daigle took the loss, his 8th of the year, while making 32 saves on 37 shots.
The Jackals will again match up with the Trashers Saturday night at the Danbury Ice Arean, a 7:30 pm face off. Elmira will finish off the week with a Sunday afternoon game back at the First Arena against the Motor City Mechanics at 4:05 pm.