KALAMAZOO, Mich. \u2014 The Kalamazoo Wings (24-24-3-3), proud ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League\u2019s Vancouver Canucks, could not overcome a strong third period by the Jacksonville Icemen (20-26-7-1), losing Saturday at Wings Event Center, 6-3.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville held the first-period momentum, scoring a pair of goals at the 3:36 and 4:37 marks.<\/p>\n
Josh Bloom (14) continued his assault on opposing netminding with a breakaway snipe at the 12:09 mark of the second period. On the play, Bloom stole the puck in the defense zone high slot and broke away, bringing the K-Wings within one.<\/p>\n
Hunter Strand (13) then snapped the puck inside the left post to give Kalamazoo a one-goal advantage at the 14:56 mark. On the goal, Kylor Wall (6) sent the puck around the endboards to Evan Dougherty (4), who ripped a shot from outside the right circle that took a long rebound to Strand in the slot.<\/p>\n
The Icemen then responded with a goal at the 16:08 mark to take the lead back.<\/p>\n
Colin Bilek (15) then capitalized on a power-play opportunity, firing his signature one-timer from the left dot that ripped the twine at the 17:35 mark. On the setup, Davis Pennington (28) passed to David Keefer (20) above the right circle, who crossed to Bilek for the equalizer.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville broke the tie in the third period, scoring a pair of goals at the 6:23 and 9:37 marks. The Icemen then added an empty net goal at the mark to finalize a 6-3 score.<\/p>\n
Aku Koskenvuo (4-7-0-0) made 26 saves in the contest. Kalamazoo outshot Jacksonville (33-32), went 1-for-2 on the power play and 3-for-4 on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n
Information courtesy of Kalamazoo Wings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KALAMAZOO, Mich. \u2014 The Kalamazoo Wings (24-24-3-3), proud ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League\u2019s Vancouver Canucks, could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-183084","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\/183084","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=183084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}