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Hamilton closes in on AHL playoff spot. It's Danis's turn to frustrate Moose snipers as 'Dogs capture back-to-back road games
The Manitoba Moose heavily outshot the Hamilton Bulldogs for the second straight game, but Yann Danis picked up where Dan Ellis left off.
Danis made 21 saves and the Hamilton Bulldogs beat the Manitoba Moose 4-1 yesterday in the American Hockey League, sweeping a doubleheader between the two teams. Manitoba outshot Hamilton 23-15.
Ellis made 31 saves as Hamilton also beat Manitoba 4-1 on Saturday despite being outshot 32-14.
With the win, the Bulldogs moved to within one point of securing the fourth and final play-off spot in the North Division.
Steve Begin, Marc-Andre Thinel, and defencemen Trevor Daley and Mike Komisarek on the power play scored for Hamilton.
Lee Goren replied for Manitoba on a power play.
Moose goaltender Wade Flaherty allowed four goals on only 15 shots.
Hamilton head coach Doug Jarvis said the the additions of Antti Miettinen, Komisarek and Begin have been a major factor in his team's resurgence, which has seen the club register a record of 18-7-2 since the all-star break.
"They're good hockey players and they help players around them to start to play better," Jarvis said. "They're positional players, hard working and energy kinds of guys. They understand our system of playing defence first and are willing to play it."
The Bulldogs held the Moose to only four shots in the opening 20 minutes and scored on two of six themselves to take a 2-0 lead into the second period.
Moose coach Randy Carlyle said his team played poorly after falling behind despite the pressure it put on Hamilton early on.
"We have to be more resilient," Carlyle said. "It seems right now that we're in the doldrums when the opposition scores first. It seems to be like a mountain for us that we have to climb. There is a huge void right now of positive energy and we're responsible for our actions."
Begin opened the scoring when he snapped a wrist shot from just inside the blue line and beat Flaherty low to the far corner on his glove side at 13:49.
Thinel fooled Flaherty from the identical spot on the ice less than two minutes later, firing the puck past the Moose netminder on his stick side.
Only eight seconds after Moose forward Justin Morrison was sent to the penalty box for hooking, defenceman Trevor Daley unleashed a hard slapshot from the top of the right faceoff circle to give the Bulldogs a 3-0 lead at 8:41 of the middle period.
Manitoba got that one back a minute and 38 seconds later, three seconds after Bulldogs defenceman Andrew Archer was sent off for holding, when Goren picked up a loose puck at the side of the Hamilton net and scored an unassisted goal, making the score 3-1 going into the final period.
Komisarek rounded out the scoring with his first goal of the season, also on the power play, when he drifted a shot toward the Moose net and caught the far corner to give the visitors a 4-1 lead at 13:14 of the third.
The twin victories gave Hamilton a 6-2 season series edge.
The victory was Hamilton's eighth in its last 10 games and the Manitoba loss was the team's sixth in its last eight.
Fatigue did not appear to be a factor for the Bulldogs, who were playing their fourth game in five days.
"When you're playing in this league all year, you've got to get used to playing three in three nights or four in five," Daley said. "It's just the way it goes. The last two nights we only put 14 and 15 shots on goal and it's just that the puck was going in for us the last two nights."
Manitoba (41-25-3-7) remains one point ahead of the charging St. John's Maple Leafs in the race for second in the North Division. Both teams have four games remaining.
Hamilton (37-28-7-6) moves eight points ahead of Syracuse in the North Division with the Crunch having only four games remaining.
© The Gazette (Montreal) 2005
Hamilton closes in on AHL playoff spot. It's Danis's turn to frustrate Moose snipers as 'Dogs capture back-to-back road games
The Manitoba Moose heavily outshot the Hamilton Bulldogs for the second straight game, but Yann Danis picked up where Dan Ellis left off.
Danis made 21 saves and the Hamilton Bulldogs beat the Manitoba Moose 4-1 yesterday in the American Hockey League, sweeping a doubleheader between the two teams. Manitoba outshot Hamilton 23-15.
Ellis made 31 saves as Hamilton also beat Manitoba 4-1 on Saturday despite being outshot 32-14.
With the win, the Bulldogs moved to within one point of securing the fourth and final play-off spot in the North Division.
Steve Begin, Marc-Andre Thinel, and defencemen Trevor Daley and Mike Komisarek on the power play scored for Hamilton.
Lee Goren replied for Manitoba on a power play.
Moose goaltender Wade Flaherty allowed four goals on only 15 shots.
Hamilton head coach Doug Jarvis said the the additions of Antti Miettinen, Komisarek and Begin have been a major factor in his team's resurgence, which has seen the club register a record of 18-7-2 since the all-star break.
"They're good hockey players and they help players around them to start to play better," Jarvis said. "They're positional players, hard working and energy kinds of guys. They understand our system of playing defence first and are willing to play it."
The Bulldogs held the Moose to only four shots in the opening 20 minutes and scored on two of six themselves to take a 2-0 lead into the second period.
Moose coach Randy Carlyle said his team played poorly after falling behind despite the pressure it put on Hamilton early on.
"We have to be more resilient," Carlyle said. "It seems right now that we're in the doldrums when the opposition scores first. It seems to be like a mountain for us that we have to climb. There is a huge void right now of positive energy and we're responsible for our actions."
Begin opened the scoring when he snapped a wrist shot from just inside the blue line and beat Flaherty low to the far corner on his glove side at 13:49.
Thinel fooled Flaherty from the identical spot on the ice less than two minutes later, firing the puck past the Moose netminder on his stick side.
Only eight seconds after Moose forward Justin Morrison was sent to the penalty box for hooking, defenceman Trevor Daley unleashed a hard slapshot from the top of the right faceoff circle to give the Bulldogs a 3-0 lead at 8:41 of the middle period.
Manitoba got that one back a minute and 38 seconds later, three seconds after Bulldogs defenceman Andrew Archer was sent off for holding, when Goren picked up a loose puck at the side of the Hamilton net and scored an unassisted goal, making the score 3-1 going into the final period.
Komisarek rounded out the scoring with his first goal of the season, also on the power play, when he drifted a shot toward the Moose net and caught the far corner to give the visitors a 4-1 lead at 13:14 of the third.
The twin victories gave Hamilton a 6-2 season series edge.
The victory was Hamilton's eighth in its last 10 games and the Manitoba loss was the team's sixth in its last eight.
Fatigue did not appear to be a factor for the Bulldogs, who were playing their fourth game in five days.
"When you're playing in this league all year, you've got to get used to playing three in three nights or four in five," Daley said. "It's just the way it goes. The last two nights we only put 14 and 15 shots on goal and it's just that the puck was going in for us the last two nights."
Manitoba (41-25-3-7) remains one point ahead of the charging St. John's Maple Leafs in the race for second in the North Division. Both teams have four games remaining.
Hamilton (37-28-7-6) moves eight points ahead of Syracuse in the North Division with the Crunch having only four games remaining.
© The Gazette (Montreal) 2005