The Henderson Silver Knights gave Joel Ward a win in his first official game as head coach Saturday night, using a three-point performance from Tanner Laczynski, two goals from Alexander Holtz and an AHL debut goal from Alex Weiermair to beat the Bakersfield Condors 4-3 at Lee\u2019s Family Forum.<\/p>\n
Henderson built a 2-0 lead through two periods, then answered each Bakersfield push in a frantic third. The Silver Knights finished with 31 shots, went 1-for-4 on the power play and killed five of Bakersfield\u2019s six chances with the man advantage.<\/p>\n
Ward said the offense came from the way Henderson worked to create second opportunities.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the guys just getting inside and, you know, creating some opportunities, I thought the puck recovery was great as well,\u201d Ward said.<\/p>\n
Weiermair opens the scoring<\/p>\n
Henderson controlled much of the first period and outshot Bakersfield 15-4.<\/p>\n
Weiermair broke through at 7:43, attacking from the wing and beating Connor Ungar with a wrist shot for his first AHL goal in his league debut. Adam Ginning and Jeremy Davies picked up the assists.<\/p>\n
The goal continued a strong early stretch for Weiermair, who also scored during Henderson\u2019s preseason win over Tucson.<\/p>\n
Laczynski said Weiermair\u2019s work ethic has stood out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like the way he works,\u201d Laczynski said. \u201cHe\u2019s obviously got some skill with his game.\u201d<\/p>\n
The game also became physical in the second period, with Mitch McLain and Joe Fleming involved in separate fights during the same stoppage.<\/p>\n
Holtz, Laczynski take over<\/p>\n
Henderson doubled the lead at 13:26 of the second.<\/p>\n
Laczynski created the play along the boards and carried into a 2-on-1 before sending the puck across to Holtz, who finished for his first goal of the season. Jonas R\u00f8ndbjerg also assisted.<\/p>\n
The Condors finally broke through at 7:39 of the third when Daniel D\u2019Amato cut the lead to 2-1, but Henderson responded less than three minutes later.<\/p>\n
Laczynski controlled the puck high in the offensive zone, worked laterally to create a shooting lane and scored at 10:04 for a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Bakersfield answered again just 54 seconds later. William Nicholl got behind the defense, and Carl Lindbom stopped the initial chance before Connor Clattenburg converted the rebound to make it 3-2.<\/p>\n
Henderson responded again on the power play. With Seth Griffith in the penalty box, Laczynski controlled the puck on the right side and carried behind the net before creating a chance in front. Holtz finished at 15:52 for his second goal of the night and the eventual game-winner.<\/p>\n
Laczynski said familiarity helped the line create chances.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just kind of seem to be finding each other,\u201d Laczynski said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Henderson Silver Knights gave Joel Ward a win in his first official game as head coach Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-484944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}