DULUTH \u2014 The Atlanta Gladiators defeated the Jacksonville Icemen 6-3 in ECHL ice hockey on Saturday night at Gas South Arena in front of a crowd of 7,116 on Thrashers Night.<\/p>\n
The Gladiators paid homage to the Atlanta Thrashers and honored Atlanta\u2019s hockey history with specialty jerseys and callbacks to the former NHL franchise throughout the night.<\/p>\n
Atlanta was in search of its fifth straight win in their pursuit of possession of the No. 2 seed in the South Division; hosting a hungry Jacksonville team just four points out of a playoff spot. Ethan Haider started in net for Atlanta, while Topias Leinonen was the starter for the Icemen.<\/p>\n
The scoring began just 1:53 into the first period, as Cody Sylvester tipped in a Zach Yoder shot to put Atlanta up 1-0. In response, Jacksonville potted a goal on a power play 9:25 into the period from T.J. Friedmann to make it 1-1. Friedmann\u2019s pass to the slot hit a defenseman\u2019s stick and went into the back of the net. Shorthanded again with 7:11 left in the opening frame, Joey Cipollone set up an odd man rush with a steal, eventually ending with a shorthanded goal from Mickey Burns. Burns\u2019 7th of the season came from Chad Nychuk and Joey Cipollone to put Atlanta up 2-1.<\/p>\n
Burns\u2019 shorthanded goal would be the beginning of four straight goals for Atlanta, with Ryan Nolan resuming the scoring with a missile of a shot from the slot off a feed from Cipollone 7:54 into the second. Nolan\u2019s 11th goal of the season came in his first game back from injury after missing the last 7 games. Atlanta outshot Jacksonville 22-18 after two periods of play and held a 3-1 lead going into the third.<\/p>\n
The thrashing continued in the third period, with Adam Eisele stealing the puck away and scoring his first professional goal 5:19 in. Eisele\u2019s goal was followed by a score from Jack O\u2019Brien from Ryan Nolan and Kirklan Irey, who registered his first professional point with the assist. O\u2019Brien\u2019s 26th of the season made it a 5-1 game with 11:42 remaining in the third period. Jacksonville got back on the board with a score from Craig Martin on a shot from the slot to make it 5-2 with 6:43 to play. Carson Denomie fought Lordanthony Grissom with 4:53 remaining. Atlanta returned the favor with another O\u2019Brien goal with 1:03 remaining in regulation, this time on the power play making it 6-2. One last goal for Jacksonville with 4.7 on the clock from Panetta made it a 6-3 final. Haider stopped 24\/27 in the win for Atlanta, while Leinonen stopped 27\/33 for Jacksonville. Atlanta went 4\/5 on the penalty kill and 1\/2 on the power play in the win, outshooting the Icemen 33-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DULUTH \u2014 The Atlanta Gladiators defeated the Jacksonville Icemen 6-3 in ECHL ice hockey on Saturday night at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96499,7849,54156,96498,96503,96494,96500,71188,31240,71193,71183,24664,82543,96491,71190,1853,71182,4386,15277,96502,1793,969,116,118,39026,117,31244,96495,96304,31247,53658,78382,5691,96496,96492,78366,57526,78367,78372,96493,110,96501,82424,78374,71191,68115,96497],"class_list":["post-210755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-adam-eisele","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-gladiators","tag-atlanta-thrashers","tag-canada-united-states-sports-relations","tag-carson-denomie","tag-chad","tag-chad-nychuk","tag-cody-sylvester","tag-craig-martin","tag-duluth","tag-echl","tag-ethan-haider","tag-evansville-icemen","tag-gas-south-arena","tag-georgia","tag-gladiators","tag-hockey","tag-ice-hockey","tag-ice-hockey-leagues","tag-injury","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-icemen","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-joey-cipollone","tag-kirklan-irey","tag-lordanthony-grissom","tag-mickey-burns","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-national-hockey-league-teams","tag-nhl","tag-panetta","tag-ryan-nolan","tag-seasons-in-american-ice-hockey","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-seasons-in-canadian-ice-hockey","tag-seasons-in-ice-hockey","tag-south-division","tag-sports","tag-sports-management-companies","tag-t-j-friedmann","tag-top-tier-ice-hockey-leagues","tag-topias-leinonen","tag-winnipeg-jets","tag-zach-yoder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210755","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=210755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}