An Impressive Performance

The Mad Dogs put on a nice show Sunday night at the West Side Arena in St. Paul against new B2 team the River Pirates. The first period was a bit rough and ended with a tied score 1-1. It could have been much worse for the Dogs but they managed to kill of 2 penalties. 

Second period the Dogs were killing another penalty when Mastro slid a pass over to captain Brian Loehr  who back handed it in for the go ahead short handed goal. However the Pirates came down :19 seconds later during the same power play for a quick goal to tie the game back up. Mad Dogs had enough and went on to score 2 more, 1 by Mastro and 1 by Good, before the Pirates got another with 1:52 left in the period. Mad Dogs responded :31 seconds later when Riley scored a late period goal assisted by Lobe and Ashton ending the period with a 2 goal lead. 

The third period was dominated by the Mad Dogs because the Pirates found themselves in penalty trouble. The Dogs out shot the pirates in the third 21-10 and goaltender Larry Amundson shut out the Pirates in the 3rd to help the Mad Dogs to victory. Pete Lobe scored 2 power play goals and Paul Good got his second with a minute left in the game. 

The Dogs won out shooting the Pirates by 30 shots, 51-21. Overall it was a solid game by the Dogs. The power play was looking good seeing that they had 3 power play goals. Their penalty kill was also solid. The Dogs allowed only one short handed goal killing off  6 of the 7 penalties that they received. Next Monday the Dog play the Mayhem, the second highest penalized team in the entire AHA. Should be an intense game. Scouting report came in from Pete Lobe and will be published to the blog soon.