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| Salem Ice Dogs Beat Valley Warriors 5 to 1 | | The Salem Ice Dogs dominated the Valley Jr Warriors on Sunday night at Rockett Arena before a large crowd. The two local teams are somewhat rivals and especially now as they battle for a spot in the playoffs. The majority of the first period was scoreless despite numerous scoring opportunities for the Ice Dogs and several for the Warriors. With 2 minutes 40 seconds remaining in the first, Ken Santos found Derek Brown breaking out of the zone, who headmaned the puck to Mark Moran breaking up the middle. Moran turned on the jets splitting the D and roofed a wrist shot by the Warrior goalie. The second period started off fast and furious as Ryan Hockney drilled the puck by the Warrior goalie at the 4 minute mark from just inside the blue line on a drop pass by Kyle Anderson assisted by Nic Jacobs. The Warriors answered quickly with one of their own just 30 seconds later. The Ice Dogs continued to apply pressure with the line of John McGrath, John Murray, and Ryan Hockney testing the warrior goalie again and again. At 13:40 of the second period the Ice Dogs would go back up by two on a show of stickhandling right up the middle by David Chiaradonna, splitting the D and sliding a pass accross infront of the crease to Zak Ray who banged it home. Chiaradonnas rush was assisted by Ryan Duggan. The Warriors came out strong in the third trying to get back in the game, but the Ice Dogs had too much momentum to be stopped tonight. Just 2:50 into the third, the Ice Dogs would score again as Chiaradonna hit Zak Ray who intern fed the puck to Ryan Duggan sending him in all alone to fire the puck by the warrior goalie. To the Warriors credit, they refused to give up fighting for every loose puck. The Ice Dogs then put the game out of reach with a defensive play at the Ice Dogs blue line by Ty Zampitella breaking up the Warriors rush, and feeding Kyle Anderson cycling through center ice. Anderson turned on the jets into the warriors zone, dropped a pass to Ryan Duggan who fired the puck on net. Anderson who was crashing the net arrived right on time to bang home the rebound. The Ice Dogs were an offensive powerhouse tonight, but it all starts with the D. . . . Nic Jacobs, Ryan Manning, Ryan Sargent, Micah Goldberg and Ty Zampitella played solid D all night, playing the body and taking away sticks and hands anywhere near the net. Matt Coronis played another great game in net allowing only one goal and making at least 20 quality saves.
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