{"id":836,"date":"2008-11-10T03:04:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T03:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=836"},"modified":"2025-05-03T01:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T05:35:37","slug":"tigers-tame-bears-to-claim-first-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2008\/11\/10\/tigers-tame-bears-to-claim-first-place\/","title":{"rendered":"TIGERS TAME BEARS TO CLAIM FIRST PLACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">In what was billed as a battle for first place on Sunday, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers sent a message to Hershey Bears and the rest of the AHL that they are the early \u201ckings of the jungle\u201d, roaring to a decisive 4-1 win at the Arena at Harbor Yard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Hershey <span style=\"red;\">net minder, rookie <\/span>Simeon Varlamov, who shutout the Albany River Rats on Friday in Albany in his last start, saw <span style=\"red;\">his<\/span> hopes for a second consecutive shutout dashed quickly, when\u00a0Finnish rookie<span style=\"red;\">, Jesse Joensuu, tallied\u00a01<\/span>:56 into the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Karl Alzner\u2019s second goal of the season, <span style=\"red;\">scored with 1:28 left in the first period, <\/span>tied the game at 1-1. Alzner\u2019s goal was assisted by Keith Aucoin and Graham Mink, who snapped four-game and three-game pointless streaks respectively in collecting the helpers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Joensuu, the eventual number one star of the game, gave the <span style=\"red;\">boys<\/span> from Bridgeport a 2-1 lead at 8:24 of the second period with his second strike of the afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Hershey\u2019s season long penalty killing woes, partially attributed to the their propensity to take penalties at the most inopportune times, caught up with them in the latter stages of the second period. <\/span><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">With Oskar Osala already in the penalty box serving a minor penalty, Andrew Joudrey committed a tripping infraction, giving Bridgeport a 5-on-3 power play for 1:07.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">The opportunistic Sound Tigers, needing only 11 seconds, pounced upon their prone opponents, with Kurtis McLean redirecting a Chris Lee point shot <span style=\"red;\">past <\/span>Varlamov at 4:15 to make it 3-1. The 5-on-3 power play marker was the fifth such tally allowed by the Bears this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Bridgeport had a chance to put the game away late in the second period when they were presented another 5-on-3 power play for 34 seconds. The advantage, which briefly carried over into the third period, was successfully thwarted by Hershey\u2019s much-maligned penalty killing unit.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hershey had a chance to claw back into the game early in the third period when Bridgeport\u2019s Trevor Smith was whistled off for tripping at 3:44. However, the power play unit, which snapped a 0-for-37 drought with a third period tally on Saturday night, failed to capitalize on their fourth and final opportunity of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">McLean, the former Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguin, signed by the New York Islanders over the summer, made it a 4-1 Bridgeport lead with his second goal of the game at 6:00, only 16 seconds after the expiration of the Smith penalty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Offering little in the way of offense in the final fourteen minutes of play, Hershey registered only 7 total shots in the third period, finishing the game with a season-low 20 shots on goal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what was billed as a battle for first place on Sunday, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers sent a message to Hershey Bears and the rest of the AHL that they are the early \u201ckings of the jungle\u201d, roaring to a decisive 4-1 win at the Arena at Harbor Yard. 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