Albany River Rats Road Woes Continue in OT Loss to the Norfolk Admirals

MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com-NORFOLK, VA—Ty Wishart’s overtime-winner spelled Albany's eighth-straight road loss, as the Admirals earned a 4-3 final Friday night at the Norfolk Scope. The Admirals host Albany for game two of the weekend doubleheader tomorrow night at 7:15 p.m.

The River Rats led 2-1 heading into the third period, but Norfolk took the lead on two quick tallies from Blair Jones and Matt Syroczynski. Jones connected on a bouncing puck from a sharp angle at 5:48 to knot the game, and Syroczynski made it 3-2 less than two minutes later with a wrist shot from the top of the circle that beat River Rats goalie Mike Murphy.

Assistant Captain Mike Angelidis evened the score at 3-3 with his first marker of the season, jamming a rebound through Admirals goalie Dustin Tokarski with 11:12 to play, but Wishart found the top-corner midway through the overtime session.ADVERTISEMENT

Norfolk scored the game’s first goal at 6:51 of the opening frame when center Dana Tyrell dished a 2-on-1 pass to Adam Hall for an open put-away. Jacob Micflikier, skating in the first game of his second call-up to Albany this season, evened the score just over a minute later, beating Tokarski on the glove side from Rob Hennigar. Nick Dodge’s sixth of the year gave the River Rats their first lead of the night at 16:39 from Matthew Pistilli.

Admirals goalie Dustin Tokarski stopped 27-of-30 and earned to win as Norfolk improved to 11-12-1-0 this season.Albany goaltender Mike Murphy stopped 42-of-46 as the River Rats fell to 10-10-1-2. The Admirals out-shot Albany46-30 and went 0-for-3 on the power play; the Rive Rats were 0-for-1 on the mand advantage.

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