Jamestown, NY - It would take only two games to eliminate the Jamestown Jets from the opening round of the NJHL playoffs, pulling off an impressive 9-4 road victory inside the Jamestown Savings Bank Arena on Saturday night.

With the clear goal of eliminating the Jets in their minds, the Troy Bruins skated into game two of the NJHL Playoffs opening round picking up right where they left off on Friday night, scoring the game's first goal less than two minutes in. Once again stunning the Jamestown crowd still finding their seats, Egor Pogodin-Alekseev would propel a setup from fellow line mates and countrymen Gleb Luchnikov and Leonid Kovalev to blast a shot past the Jets netminder at 18:05. Yet, for the Russian native and youngest player on the Bruins team, Pogodin-Alekseev wasn't done as he found the puck on his stick off a Jamestown turnover, and was able to cash in for his second consecutive goal of the night at the 9:37 mark. Special teams play would rule for the Bruins on Friday night, and would continue as well in game two with a K's Powerplay goal by Aaron Huber at 7:05 and an additional lamplighter with under five minutes to go in the period to give the Bruins a commanding 4-0 lead heading into the first intermission.

Prior to the game, Bruins head coach Shane Hicke remarked to his squad that the game would need to be won one period at a time, and his club responded in the second with another quick and early goal less than three minutes in at 17:44 thanks to Kovalev scoring from Huber to take a 5-0 lead. Veteran leadership would extend the lead with captain Lee McClure dangling through the slot for his first goal of the playoffs to take the 6-0 lead at the 16:31 mark. Jamestown would come to life on a Jets powerplay to knock a deflection past Bruins starter Allan Dowler at 14:54 to break the shutout 6-1. Both teams would battle offensively as the period wound along, with the Jets cutting the lead to four with a blistering slapshot past Dowler's shoulder with less than six minutes remaining in the middle stanza. With a flurry of action in front of the Bruins net with just seconds to go, Dowler would come up big with a butterfly save to take his team into the second intermission ahead 6-2.

Unlike the previous several periods, the quick goal would actually come off the stick of the Jets offensive machine to cut the lead to three before Troy snapped back into their zone with defenseman Erik Levin sniping a shot from the far point at 13:37 assisted by Huber and Boyle. With regulation slipping away, the Jets would be forced to watch the Bruins add two more goals, first by Luchnikov with 12:47 and then again about a minute later at 11:37 with a surprise goal between the legs of Jets relief goalie Chad Karns by Justin Dornhecker to extend the lead 9-3. Jamestown, seeing their season coming to a close, would muster one final deflection through a screened Dowler, but it would not be nearly enough to challenge the Bruins by the end of sixty minutes of hockey. At the final horn, the Bruins would hold onto the 9-4 final score for the win.

With the win, the Bruins eliminate Jamestown in two games, and now head home to Troy for an intense week of preparation for the 2010 NJHL Championships next weekend in Wooster, Ohio against fierce in-state rival Wooster Oilers. More information on the championship weekend, including start times and broadcast info will be available on www.TroyBruins.com starting Monday.