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Olivier Roy first pro shutout not enough for Stockton Thunder,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Not really the first shutout of his professional career was enough to obtain Stockton Thunder goalie Olivier Roy his first ECHL victory on Friday night (Nov. 4),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Although Roy was perfect through three periods plus overtime, his teammates were unable to muster just one goal for him because the Thunder a break down 1-0 shootout loss towards the Utah Grizzlies before an audience of 6,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],193 at Stockton Arena. The victory was the seventh in a row for the Grizzlies,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who'll face the Thunder at Stockton Arena again Saturday (Nov. "You've reached get the job done. We played hard and that we played well, but it's disheartening when you don't win a game title like this."
The defeat continued a season-opening run of misfortune for Roy, who has had without any margin of error in his first five starts. The Thunder has yet gain more than two goals in any game for Roy, who fell to 0-3-2 despite compiling a save percentage of .914 and a goals-against average of two.35 in those games.
"It's disappointing, but it's part of hockey," said Roy, who made 24 saves before being beaten in the shootout by Utah's Jeff LoVecchio and Mitch Fadden. "I need to keep working harder and it will come. Among the finest to give they a chance to win."
The Thunder (2-3-2) certainly had plenty of chances to conquer Utah, but Stockton didn't score on seven power plays,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], missed a problem shot in overtime and went 0-for-4 during the shootout. Roy, who arrived on the scene about the short end of an 11-round shootout at Ontario in a single of his previous starts,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], didn't throw any blame toward his teammates for the insufficient offensive support, but Thomas did.
"If I am a member of the team and I'm some of those players, I'm winning for him,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Thomas said. "I'm winning for the guy in net because he's played well enough every night to get us victory and we haven't rewarded him. Those guys have to seem like they allow him to down."
It appeared that Roy might get an abrupt reward when Thunder winger Garet Hunt was granted a problem shot in overtime,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but Hunt was stopped by Utah goalie Andrew Engelage, who out-dueled Roy by making 25 saves during regulation some time and overtime before being perfect within the shootout.
"I'm upset with the fact I did not score," Hunt said. "It's frustrating that we didn't win for (Roy). He played awesome."
Prior to Hunt's penalty shot,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Roy made a game-saving stop with slightly under two minutes residing in the third period, when he beat Utah's Brett Ferguson on a short-handed breakaway after Thunder defenseman Nathan Deck caught an edge and fell down while trying to keep the puck within the Utah zone during a Stockton power play. Roy also stopped a short-handed breakaway bid by LoVecchio with 4:19 left in the second period.
"They got more opportunities on our power plays than we've got against them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Thomas said. "We shot ourselves in the foot a lot. We made poor decisions that killed momentum and we took penalties whenever we were on the power play. You can't do that."
The Thunder outshot Utah 14-4 within the first period, but failed to put anything past Engelage. Stockton appeared to snap the scoreless tie when Ryan Martindale place the puck in the Utah net at 3:48 from the second period,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], however the apparent goal was disallowed since the net have been dislodged.
Martindale rang a go off the crossbar around three minutes later, and Engelage kept the game scoreless by stopping Stockton's Kevin Baker on a breakaway as Baker came out of the penalty box with 2:06 remaining prior to the second intermission.
Utah (7-1-0) enjoyed six power-play opportunities but each was killed through the Thunder, which yielded little in the own end from the rink.
"We played well defensively,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we just have to finish our chances,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Roy said. "If we keep playing the way in which we did,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the wins are likely to come."
Earlier within the week,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Thunder defenseman Dan Ringwald was loaned to the Oklahoma City Barons of the American Hockey League.
Thunder captain Jason Morgan, who had been out of the lineup because of a groin injury,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was behind the Stockton bench being an assistant coach.
The ice at Stockton Arena was tinted pink for Friday's game and Stockton players wore pink-trimmed jerseys as part of Thunder Goes Pink VI,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a meeting and fund-raiser for breast cancer awareness. The pink theme will remain in place Saturday and also the jerseys will be sold in a live auction following a game. |
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