Thursday, January 3, 2008

Trenton 3, Pensacola 1

The Trenton Devils began their southern road trip with a bang, winning 3-1 in Pensacola last night behind two goals from their leading scorer Eric Castonguay in front of 1, 927 at the Pensacola Civic Center las night.

The Devils would fall behind early when Erik Fabian scored on the powerplay for the Ice Pilots, but the Devils would come back with a goal in each period to skate away with the 3-1 victory.

Matt Rogers would score the equalizer in the first when after finding himself all alone at the blue line, would be brought down near the dot.  Rogers would lose control of the puck but woulod earn his team a penalty shot which he converted at 17:37.

Eric Castonguay would take over from there, as he scored twice, once at 8:09 of the second when he took a feed through traffic from Jim Henkel over the left shoulder of Pensacola goalie Cam Ellsworth.  Castonguay then put the game away at 8:58 of the third when he one-timed an Andrew Leach pass into the net.  The goals were Castonguay's 13th and 14th of the season.

Jason Smith played his second consecutive good game in net for the Devils, stopping 34 of 35 shots en route to the victory, while Cam Ellsworth managed only 26 saves on 29 shots for the loss.  The Devils take the ice again Friday in Mississippi.

My Three Stars:
1) Eric Castonguay (TRE) - 2 Goals.
2) Jason Smith (TRE) - 34 Saves.
3) Erik Fabian (PEN) - 1 Goal.

~Titans Fan 25~

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