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By Phillip
Brents
Garrow – the WCHL’s Rookie of the Year last season in Colorado – picked up the first hat trick of his two-year professional career by scoring the game’s first three goals, all on power plays. Enga, whom Martinson envisions as a 50-goal scorer this season, increased his team-leading totals to three goals and two assists with a goal and assist in his second start in San Diego. Garrow has three goals and one assist in two games with the Gulls. “He’s the whole package,” Martinson said in reference to Garrow, who earned the equivalent of the Canadian Collegiate Defensive Player of the Year award while at the University of Alberta. “He’s a pretty complete defenseman. Not only is he strong on defense, but weightlifting-wise, he’s probably the strongest player on the team. He was one of the top scorers in the league last year when he was called up (by Utah of the AHL). He scored some goals against us.” Enga called Garrow an impact player on last season’s Gold Kings team as a rookie, adding “He’s got a year behind him now.” “We’ve got a great lineup, starting from the back end with a strong D. We’ve got some guys up front who can put the puck into the net. We’ve got some toughness. That’s the key to winning a championship,” Garrow said. In a twist sure to attract the eye of trivia fans, the game’s nine goals all came on special teams – eight power play goals (four by each team) and one shorthanded goal (by San Diego). San Diego took a 3-0 lead on a natural hat trick – all power play goals -- by defenseman Mike Garrow. Garrow’s man-advantage goal at 10:07 of the first period, assisted by Jamie Black and Clayton Read, gave the Gulls a 1-0 lead. Garrow struck again just 2:07 later by converting feeds from Trevor Sherban and captain Dennis Purdie. Garrow completed his first career hat trick with five seconds left in the period, assisted by Black and Sherban. Garrow, who had 14 goals and 42 points in 55 games last season in Colorado, completed his hat trick in 9:48. It ranks as the second fastest by a Gulls’ defenseman in franchise history. Jason Courtemanche recorded three goals in an 8:55 span in a Jan. 7, 1997 game against the Alaska Gold Kings in Fairbanks. The WCHL record for fastest three goals in a game is 1:15 by since retired Cal Ingraham of the Idaho Steelheads. Ingraham produced his feat on Jan. 6, 1999 in a game against San Diego in Boise. Enga got his third goal as a Gull on a shorthanded situation 1:48 into the second period. With Clint Cabana sitting in the penalty box on a high stick call, Enga cut down the ice on a breakaway, skated in on Ice Dogs goalie B.J. Boxma, picked his spot and forehanded the puck easily into the back netting. Long Beach broke San Diego goaltender Trevor Koenig’s season opening shutout streak 84:31 as defenseman Chris Peyton scored with one second remaining on an Ice Dogs power play. Yevgeniy Kabanets picked up the assist. After being outscored 10-0, Long Beach strung its first two goals together of the season as Jeff Attard scored on the power play at 10:50 of the middle period to put the Ice Dogs right back into the game. Peyton earned his second point of the night with an assist on the goal. An assist also went to Tyler Johnston. The Gulls regained their three-goal lead just 22 seconds into the final period when Pederson scored his second goal in as many nights off a feed from Enga. The goal came while on the power play – the team’s fourth in eight opportunities on the night. However, Long Beach promptly closed the gap again to two goals on a power play goal by Peyton – his second of the matchup -- at 1:18 and further reduced the Gulls’ lead to a single goal on a continuation of a five-minute penalty to San Diego’s Dennis Mullen at 2:46. Tomas Hradecky brought the score to 5-4 in San Diego’s favor off an assist Peyton (his fourth point of the game – two goals and two assists). Koenig, who recorded his ninth shutout in a Gulls sweater the night before, stopped 27 of 31 Long Beach shots. Boxma, who finished the game in strong fashion with several outstanding stops, made 34 saves on 39 shots. The Ice Dogs finished 4-for-6 on the power play after going scoreless in eight attempts the night before. San Diego finished the weekend with six power play goals in 15 attempts. “We had a tough time defending that five-minute penalty but I saw some good things this weekend,” Martinson said. An announced crowd of 3,707 fans filed through the San Diego Sports Arena turnstiles after the previous night’s sellout attendance of 12,920 – the second largest crowd in WCHL Gulls’ history. San Diego’s next home game is Sunday, Oct. 27 against the Bakersfield Condors. Face-off is 5 p.m. The Ice Dogs will be out to record their first win of the 2002-03 season when they host the Gulls Saturday, Oct. 26 at the Long Beach Arena. Game time is 7 p.m. Notepad |
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