{"id":134986,"date":"2026-01-28T14:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134986\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:41:13","slug":"ghost-pirates-fall-4-2-to-icemen-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134986\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Pirates Fall 4\u20132 to Icemen in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.savannahtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-01-28\/28p1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-358609 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/28p1-1024x523.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a0\" width=\"840\"  \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Savannah Ghost Pirates, proud ECHL affiliate of the Florida Panthers, fell 4\u20132 to the Jacksonville Icemen on Friday night at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Savannah opened the scoring at the 6:23 mark of the first period when Evan Nause took a feed from Logan Drevitch, carried the puck into the zone and tucked a backhand past the goaltender to give the Ghost Pirates a 1\u20130 lead. Ryan Sullivan earned the secondary assist.<\/p>\n<p> Jacksonville tied the game a few minutes later on the power play as Christopher Brown wristed a shot through traffic from the right side to make it 1\u20131.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghost Pirates regained the lead with 2:21 remaining in the first period on their own power play. Drevitch fired a pass to the front of the net where Nicholas Zabaneh redirected it home to make it 2\u20131. Will Riedell picked up the additional assist.<\/p>\n<p>Despite six total power plays in the second period, neither team found the back of the net and Savannah carried a 2\u20131 lead into the third. <\/p>\n<p>The Icemen tied the game 3:06 into the final frame when Craig Martin tipped in a Taos Jordan point shot to even the score at 2\u20132.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville took its first lead of the night with 1:54 remaining as Matteo Costantini scored from the slot to make it 3\u20132. Bennett MacArthur added an empty-net goal to seal the 4\u20132 final.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Rowe earned the win for Jacksonville, stopping 20 of 22 shots. Vinnie Purpura made 17 saves on 20 shots for Savannah.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghost Pirates return home Friday to open Youth Sports Weekend against the Orlando Solar Bears at Enmarket Arena. Puck drop is scheduled for 7 PM ET. The game will be streamed live on FloHockey, televised on WJCL 22 and broadcast on Mixlr. Tickets and additional information are available at ghostpirateshockey.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The Savannah Ghost Pirates, proud ECHL affiliate of the Florida Panthers, fell 4\u20132 to the Jacksonville Icemen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-134986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}