By Kyle OBrien
TROY, OH- Troy Sets Franchise Scoring Record in Saturday Night's 13-0 Shutout.
Saturday night saw the Troy Bruins facing off against the Philadelphia Thunder at home in Hobart Arena. While the first period was exciting, it was no indication of what would come later.
Troy took advantage early on some sloppy play by Philadelphia, snagging multiple stray passes and capitalizing with goals. Troy started off with two shorthanded goals by Newly added Bruin #10 Willie Boyle and #20 Cory Evelyn, assisted by #23 Tyler Merritt. Troy's would score once more in the first period at the 3:19 mark by #22 Derek McPherson, assisted by #6 John Ruble, ending the first period with a score of 3-0.
In the second period, Troy continued to press their lead by adding 7 more unanswered goals to extend their lead to 10-0. #19 Aaron Huber would score first at the 13:47 mark. Another new face to the Bruins, #6 John Ruble, assisted by #14 Erik Levin and #27 Justin Dornhecker, added goal number 5 of the night at 16:32. #11 Leonid Kovalev, would add one more with a beautiful wrister from the top of the left wing circle at 16:16, assisted by #24 Manny Lopez and #20 Cory Evelyn. Ruble would score on a well timed centering pass from #8 Lee McClure at 14:02. Ruble would add another to the scoreboard at 13:06, assisted by Dornhecker and McPherson. Goal number 9 on the night would come at 10:42 from #9 Gleb Luchnikov from Huber and Boyle. Soon after, obvious frustration arose from the Philadelphia players, and they began to attack the puck with renewed vigor and aggression. Unfortunately this change would not help Philadelphia's situation as they were continually outplayed through the rest of the game. #17 Egor Pogodin-Alekseev would score his first goat of the night at 6:10, assisted by fellow Russian Kovalev. The final two goals of the second period would come at 3:24 by Lopez from Huber; and at 3:06 by Luchnikov from Pogodin-Alekseev. Near the end of the second period, tempers flared as minor checking exploded into all out fisticuffs earning each team several penalty minutes.
Period three surprisingly passed very quickly with only a few penalties and one fight breaking out, seemingly due to the large amount of action in the previous period. Ruble would score Troy's final goal at the 10:46 mark, his fourth of the night, a Texas Hat-Trick.
Troy will rematch Philadelphia Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. at Hobart Arena.
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