Game #35: Tucson Roadrunners vs Iowa Wild
SOG: TUC (25) –IA (30)
Someone please remind the Iowa Wild netminder to check his 5 hole as Josh Doan is going to sneak the puck through it to give Tucson a 1-0 second period lead. Doan would score another goal in the period and cap off his sixth multiple goal game of the season.
DOAN’T OVERLOOK IT
FOLLOW THE (Tucson Roadrunners points) LEADER – Josh Doan. It’s Josh Doan. It was always Josh Doan. let’s talk about Josh Doan. In Monday night’s 3-1 victory over the Iowa Wild, Doan scored his seventh game-winning goal. That number is good enough to lead the entire AHL. To go along with that, Doan leads the Tucson Roadrunners in multiple-point games this season with five. Doan scored his 14th and 15th goals of the year Monday which leads the Tucson Roadrunners. It was also Doan’s third two-goal game of the year, all of which have come at Tucson Arena.
LOOK AT THIS
Tucson Roadrunners Forward Hunter Drew unloads his concrete fists into the cheek bone of an Iowa Wild player. Drew has fought in two of the Roadrunners last three games. Tonight’s was the 19th Tucson tilt of the season.
THEY SAID IT
“It’s always a tough game coming off of traveling the day before, but we take challenges head on. We came in this morning and had a game plan and stuck to it tonight.”
Forward Josh Doan following Tucson’s 3-1 win on Monday night.
THE RUNDOWN
In the first period Matthew Villalta, recent AHL All-Star selection, showed the Tucson crowd why he has stood out amongst his peers in the American Hockey League; stopping 12 of 12 shots from the Iowa Wild and helping kill off an Iowa power-play. Villalta stopped 29/30 shots he faced on the night. Tucson had just six shots of their own in the frame and an unsuccessful power-play. The two teams would head to the intermission knotted up in a 0-0 pitchers’ duel.
Period two was spent by…
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