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Feb. 1, 2003
The Steelheads beat Trevor Koenig three times in the extra frame and defeated San Diego 6-5, before a sold out crowd of 5,307 at the Bank of America Centre. The Gulls (26-13-1) now trail their first-place foes by 16 points, but still have six games in hand. For Koenig, he's going to have to wait at least one more game before he can pick up his 100th career West Coast League win. Offense is usually a hot commodity when these two teams get together. San Diego only averaged 1.56 goals against Idaho, while the Steelheads averaged 2.00 against San Diego in nine previous head-to-head meetings this season. Well… you can through that out the window tonight. Idaho (33-10-4) has completely shutdown San Diego's line of R.J. Enga, Sylvain Deschatelets and Cory Cyrenne during the last four games. That is until all three connected 18:10 into the first period tonight, giving the Gulls a 1-0 lead. Enga and Cyrenne battled in the corner and the puck eventually came to Deschatelets, wide-open in front of Jason Cugnet. Deschatelets had all kinds of time to make a couple of moves, and wound up flipping a backhander home for his 14th goal. San Diego kept the momentum and potted two goals 35 seconds apart to start the second period. Mark Pederson shoveled in his 21st just 29 seconds into the frame, off a rebound from Mike Garrow's shot from the point. It was Pederson's fifth goal in his last three games against the Steelheads. Kevin Grant gave the Gulls a 3-0 lead with his third goal at 1:04. Cyrenne took the puck away behind the Steelheads' net and fed a streaking Grant, coming in from the blue line. The Blue and Orange are now 14-3 when Grant is in the lineup. Idaho came right back with two, cutting San Diego's lead to one. Joe Rybar got the Steelheads on the board with a power-play goal 3:15 into the second, finishing off a tic-tac-toe play with Marty Flichel and Dan Shermerhorn. It was Rybar's 19th tally of the season. Shermerhorn then got his 16th, beating Koenig with a one-timer from the right circle. The Gulls answered at 9:48 on Clayton Read's 13th tally, knocking in another rebound off Garrow's shot from the blue line. But less than two minutes later, Idaho's league-leading power play came through again, slicing San Diego's lead to 4-3. Dampy Brar, playing in only his seventh game of the season, potted his fifth after Koenig couldn't control Flichel's blast. Enga gave San Diego another two-goal cushion with his 20th goal at the 1:32 mark of the third period. While being tied up from behind, Enga tipped Cyrenne's centering feed past Cugnet, who was then replaced by Blair Allison. The Steelheads drew within one again on Adam Copeland's sixth of the year at 8:13, taking advantage of a Gulls turnover inside their own zone. Burt sent the game to the shootout with just 17 seconds left, tipping in a shot from Scott Swanson. Rybar began the play with a crucial faceoff win deep in San Diego territory. In the shootout, Pederson and Deschatelets scored for the Gulls – the same two who tallied in the extra frame last night – against Cugnet, who came back in the game after regulation. Flichel, Rybar and Brar beat Koenig. Notepad |
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San Diego Gulls were 17 seconds away from sweeping a weekend set with the
Idaho Steelheads. Scott Burt, however, tied the game and his teammates did
the rest in the shootout, sending the Blue and Orange away in disbelief.