Icemen Take A 3-1 Lead With Win Over Everblades

By:
On:
In: ECHL, Florida Everblades, Hockey, JaxIce, My South Florida, NE Florida, Sports
Tagged: , ,

On the strength of three second-period goals, the Jacksonville Icemen claimed a 5-0 victory over the Florida Everblades in Game Four of the South Division Semifinals Friday night at Hertz Arena in front of 6,180 fans. Jacksonville holds a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.

The ECHL’s top two defenses lived up to the billing in the first period, as the Everblades and Icemen put up zeroes over the opening 20 minutes of Game Four. Blades netminder Cam Johnson turned aside all six shots he faced in the opening frame, while Jacksonville’s Matt Vernon was tested by the home team, stopping all nine Florida shots.

Fortunes changed for the visitors in the middle period, as Jacksonville scored three goals in a 4:11 span to take a 3-0 lead. Matheson Iacopelli struck first with an unassisted goal at 7:08, while Damien Geroux followed at the 9:36 mark, and Olivier Nadeau capped off the offensive outburst with a power-play goal at 11:19.

For Jacksonville in the third period, Christopher Brown added a goal at 8:15, while Ryan Scarfo scored an empty net goal at 16:20 to close out the scoring.

Despite the Everblades outshooting Jacksonville 13-9 in the third period, the Icemen claimed a 32-31 shooting advantage in the game.

The series continues at Hertz Arena with a critical Game Five matchup slated for Saturday night at 7:00 p.m., before shifting back to Jacksonville for Game Six Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m.

SHOT 1
Game 4 between the Icemen and the Everblades,  scoreless game in the second period and an Everblades turnover jumps to Matheson Iacopelli (ahh-cuh-pell-eee) who takes off on the breakaway and beats Florida goaltender Cam Johnson for the tally….Here’s another look at it (REPLAY)

SHOT 2
Two minutes later,  Damien Giroux (gerr-roo) hammers a slapshot from the left wing boards and somehow finds a way to sneak into the net to make it 2-0.

SHOT 3
The Icemen make it3-0 moments later, on some tic-tac-toe passing that is finished off by Olivier Nadeau (nah-doe0  on the power play.

SHOT 4
Everblades tried to push back in the third period, but the Icemen quelled that notion, as Captain Christopher Brown races in and snipes a shot high past Johnson’s Glove to make it 4-0.   Icemen go on to win 5-0 and they taker a 3-1 series lead with Game 5 tomorrow in Estero

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.