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| Ice Dogs Beat CD Selects and Bay State | | The Salem Ice Dogs won both of their home opening games this weekend playing on a sparkling new surface at Rockett Arena (Salem State College). The first game was on Friday night against the CD Selects. The spectators were in for a thrill with this game, as the action was wide open, fast and loaded with scoring. The Ice Dogs led after the first period of play by the score of 3 to 2 on two goals by Ryan Duggan and one by David Chiaradonna. The assists went to Ryan Hockney, David Chiaradonna and Ryan Duggan. The CD Selects got the better of us in the second period scoring three and giving up only two to tie the score 5 to 5. Ice Dog goals in the second were scored by Mark Moran and Paul Burns assisted by Ryan Sargent, Leif Benner, Paul Burns and Louis Gallego. The third period of play would be in favor of the Ice Dogs as Mark Moran opened with an unassisted short handed goal just 30 seconds into the period. CD came back to tie it one more time just 7 minutes later. The Ice Dogs would go up by one again mid way through the third period on a goal by Ryan Hockney assisted by Paul Burns and Kyle Anderson. With 90 seconds to go CD pulled their goalie for a face off in the Ice Dogs end. The face off by Moran was tipped to Anderson who fed Micah Goldberg in the corner. Goldberg made a move around one attacker and seized the opportunity to shoot the puck full ice to score on the open net. With the Ice Dogs up by two with 80 seconds remaining, CD put their goalie back in net. Were we done yet? No, just 17 seconds later the Ice Dogs would score again, netting Ryan Duggan his first Hat Trick of the weekend assisted by Chiaradonna and Moran. Was it over yet, oh no, this time CD came back to score in 10 seconds flat. Finally this festival of scoring was over with the Ice Dogs victorious 9 to 7. ..... ..... .... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... .... ... ... ... The second game of the weekend was on Sunday night against the powerful Bay State Breakers. The Ice Dogs knew they would have to assemble a much better game defensively if they wanted to beat the Breakers. Well, they did just that. The Words for this game are WOW WHAT A GAME. The Ice Dogs assembled nearly a perfect game against the Breakers with intensive forechecking and backchecking and moving the puck. The Ice Dogs dominated most of the first period of play but to no avail as the first period ended with no score. The second period was more of the same with the Breakers playing the trap for most of the period trying to clog up the neutral zone patiently waiting for a mistake. A mistake they were not going to get as the Ice dogs scored first mid way through the second on a slap shot by Louis Gallego, assisted by Ryan Hockney and Ryan Duggan on the power play. About 6 minutes later the Ice Dogs would go up by two on a goal by Ryan Duggan, assisted by David Chiaradonna and Ty Zampitella. With 90 second remaining in the second the Breakers would get on the board with a power play goal. The turning point in this game came just 17 seconds later when Ryan Duggan got his second goal of the night assisted by David Chiaradonna and Ryan Sargent. The teams went to the locker room after two with the Ice Dogs leading 3 to 1. The third period of play was the most nerve racking as both teams stepped up the level of play. The Breakers would get and capitalize on another power play opportunity at the 8 minute mark of the third. The Ice Dogs responded just 6 minutes later on Ryan Duggans third goal of the evening and second hat trick of the weekend, assisted by David Chiaradonna and Ryan Hockney. We are not sure why but the Breakers pulled their goalie when down by two with just 30 seconds remaining giving Mark Moran the opportunity to score an open net goal with 25 seconds left assisted by Paul Burns and Kyle Anderson. This game was won on more than just offense, and more than just solid defense, this game was won by assembling a near perfect game with every player contributing both offensively as well as defensively. Matt Coronis put on yet another stellar performance in net as Matt turned away 24 scoring opportunities and let in only 2 in 60 minutes of play and those two were both Bay State Breaker power play goals. Congratulations guys on a victory well deserved.
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