Brown Bears, Wolverines break up weekend sequence
The Kenai River Brown Bears break up with the Anchorage Wolverines on Friday and Saturday on the Soldotna Regional Sports activities Advanced in North American Hockey League motion.
The Brown Bears received 4-1 on Friday earlier than dropping a 4-1 choice Saturday.
The Bears transfer to 3-14-0-0 and keep in final place within the Midwest Division, whereas the Wolverines are at 10-5-1-0 and are fourth within the division.
Within the Membership 49 Cup, the battle between Alaska’s three NAHL groups, the Fairbanks Ice Canines have 4, the Bears have one and the Wolverines have one.
Friday, Bears goalie Bryant Marks, 17, of Wasilla obtained his first NAHL win.
The Wolverines outshot the Bears 36-19 after getting six energy performs. Marks made 35 saves to enhance to 1-6 on the season, whereas Shane Soderwall stopped 15 for Anchorage.
“It’s a pretty cliche thing to say, but your goalie always needs to be your best penalty killer,” Kenai River head coach Josh Dubinsky mentioned. “He was our greatest penalty killer and doubtless our greatest participant tonight.
“He played extremely well, especially after not playing for over a month.”
Marks, whose final begin was Oct. 2, didn’t surrender a aim till the sixth energy play, when Colton Friesen linked with 10:39 to play to chop Kenai River’s result in 3-1.
“The boys played a hell of a game,” Marks mentioned. “They helped me out a lot. They bore down, blocked a few shots and buried a few. That’s all you can ask for as a goalie.”
Anchorage head coach Mike Aikens additionally was impressed with Marks.
“Their penalty kill and their goalie were the difference in the game,” the coach mentioned. “I assumed we managed a number of the play at occasions. I can’t fault our effort.
“It was just one of those games where I felt we didn’t make a play here or there that we needed to.”
Kenai River’s first two targets got here off of faceoffs. Within the first interval, Kevin Enriquez scored on an help from Cole Dubicki. Within the second interval, Gramm McCormack scored on an help from Bryce Monrean.
Then simply 2:49 into the third interval, Luke Panchisin, assisted by Nick Stevens and Sean Henry, had the Bears up 3-0.
After Friesen’s aim, David Vieten, assisted by Dubicki and Brendan Hill, closed the sport with an empty-netter.
The Bears had been swept at house by the Ice Canines final weekend.
“Friday night against Fairbanks was definitely the game that we lost that we deserved to win the most,” Dubinsky mentioned. “It doesn’t always work out in your favor and tonight we responded pretty well.”
Aikens had been down to observe the Bears play two weeks earlier than Friday’s sport and wasn’t fooled by Kenai River’s win complete coming into the weekend.
“I knew they were dangerous,” he mentioned. “We actually weren’t overlooking them one bit.
“They play hard and they’ve got some guys that can make plays. They’re on the right track.”
Saturday, Kevin Marx Noren notched his first aim in a Brown Bears uniform to offer the Bears a 1-0 lead after the primary interval.
Anchorage would then rating the final 4 targets of the sport.
Hunter Schmitz, Talon Sigurdson and Alexander Babich scored within the second interval, then Campbell Cichosz scored within the third interval.
Raythan Robbins had 31 saves for the Wolverines, whereas Marks stopped 32 for the Bears.
The Bears now journey to play the Wolverines on Friday and Saturday at Ben Boeke Ice Area in Anchorage. The video games are each at 7 p.m.
Friday
Brown Bears 4, Wolverines 1
Anchorage 0 0 1 —1
Kenai River 1 1 2 —4
First interval — 1. Kenai River, Enriquez (Dubicki), 6:50. Penalties — Anchorage 2 for six:00; Kenai River 2 for 4:00.
Second interval — 2. Kenai River, McCormack (Monrean), 3:28. Penalties — Anchorage 1 for two:00; Kenai River 3 for six:00.
Third interval — 3. Kenai River, Panchisin (Stevens, Henry), 2:49; 4. Anchorage, Friesen (Cichosz, Sigurdson), pp, 9:21; 5. Kenai River, Vieten (Dubicki, Hill), en, 19:43. Penalties — Kenai River 2 for 4:00.
Photographs on aim — Anchorage 13-13-10—36; Kenai River 6-9-4—19.
Goalies — Anchorage, Soderwall (18 photographs, 15 saves); Kenai River, Marks (36 photographs, 35 saves).
Kenai River Brown Bears ahead Luke Panchisin (9) celebrates his third-period aim towards the Anchorage Wolverines on Friday on the Soldotna Regional Sports activities Advanced in Soldotna. (Picture by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
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