It was a dominant performance by the 琉璃神社 Rockets on Tuesday (Apr. 2) night at Prospera Place as a 5-1 win gave them a 2-1 series lead against the Wenatchee Wild.
Wenatchee struck first when Briley Wood scored his fifth goal of the series 5:55 into the contest but after that, it was all Rockets.
Late in the frame, 琉璃神社鈥檚 Tij Iginla and Marek Rocak scored 1:15 apart to take a 2-1 lead.
It was like watching a ball on the lip of the hole to win The Masters. Tij Iginla ties the game with his fourth of the post season. | |
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Iginla got a partial breakaway and was able to sneak it past Wild goaltender Daniel Hauser for this fourth goal of the playoffs, assisted by Hiroki Gojsic and Michael Cicek.
While Rocak鈥檚 marker, the eventual game-winning goal, was helped out by Gabriel Szturc and Max Graham.
Marek Rocak cooks up his best siuuu celly! |
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It wasn鈥檛 until late in the second period when the Rockets added an insurance goal when defenceman and Seattle Kraken prospect Caden Price scored his first goal of the postseason. Dylan Wightman and Luke Schelter collected the apples on the goal.
Breadstick King, Caden Price, rips home his first of the postseason. | |
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In the third period, the Rockets would add two more goals, starting with Iginla鈥檚 second of the game as he was waiting at the backdoor for a pass from Cicek.
*knock* *knock*
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who's there?
Tij Iginla at the backdoor! | |
Schelter added his second of the postseason later on to make it 5-1. Ty Hurley and Wightman assisted in the goal.
Jari Kykkanen was great in net, making 31 saves in the win.
鈥淚 think we played amazing tonight,鈥� said Kykkanen in his postgame interview. 鈥淕uys were sacrificing all around, blocking shots and our penalty kill was dialed. We gave up the powerplay goal, but everything else we were killing off. It was a lot of fun to play behind those guys tonight.鈥�
With the win, the Rockets are up 2-1 in the best-of-seven series and will look to go up 3-1 as the puck drops on game four Wednesday night (Apr. 3) at Prospera Place. Puck drop is set for 7:05 p.m.
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