GLENS FALLS, N.Y. \u2014 Dylan Wendt recorded three points and Tyler Brennan stopped 15 of 16 shots as the Adirondack Thunder defeated the defending Kelly Cup Champion Trois-Rivieres Lions, 4-1, in front of a sellout crowd of 5,286 on Saturday night at the building formerly known as the Glens Falls Civic Center.<\/p>\n
Adirondack opened the scoring with 5:14 left in the first period as Brannon McManus took a pass from T.J. Friedmann and fired a shot from the hash marks by goaltender Hunter Jones for the lead. The goal was McManus\u2019 third of the season with assists from Dylan Wendt and Luke Reid.<\/p>\n
Shortly after, Kishaun Gervais added to the lead as he tipped a T.J. Friedmann shot into the net just 21 seconds later for the 2-0 advantage. The goal was Gervais\u2019 first of the year and the Thunder took that two-goal lead into the intermission, along with a 19-7 shot advantage.<\/p>\n
Trois-Rivieres responded on the power play after Dan Ebrahim was denied a shorthanded breakaway chance. Tommy Cormier brought the puck back down the ice and set up Joe Dunlap for his second of the year at 5:23. Cormier and Cedric Desruisseaux were awarded the assists, and the Thunder lead was cut to 2-1.<\/p>\n
After being denied twice earlier in the game, Cam Squires put in his first with the Thunder on the power play to give Adirondack a 3-1 lead. Dylen Wendt and Luke Reid collected their seconds assists of the game on Squires\u2019 goal at the 13:44 mark of the second period.<\/p>\n
T.J. Friedmann added to the lead with after a great pass from Dylan Wendt for a 4-1 lead. The goal was Friedmann\u2019s first of the year, while Wendt collected his third assist of the game at 5:36. Brian Carrabes was awarded the secondary helper and the 4-1 score held up as the final score.<\/p>\n
Tyler Brennan collected the victory, stopping 15 of 16 shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLENS FALLS, N.Y. \u2014 Dylan Wendt recorded three points and Tyler Brennan stopped 15 of 16 shots as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-17949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}