Facebook
Fark
Digg
Reddit
StumbleAces pick up second straight win over Wranglers
Alaska’s Ryan Turek scores winning goal in 3-2 victory over Las Vegas
Stephen Sylvanie / Special to the Sun
Adam Miller threads the puck through the crease behind Aces goaltender Scott Reid during the first period of action on Saturday night at the Orleans Arena.
Sunday, March 21, 2010 | 12:33 a.m.
Alaska defenseman Ryan Turek’s goal with 11:20 remaining in the third period Saturday night gave the Aces their second straight win over the Las Vegas Wranglers.
Despite mounting another two-goal comeback, Turek’s goal past Jimmy Spratt vaulted Alaska past the Wranglers in the National Conference points standings with a 3-2 victory.
The Aces scored a goal in each of the first two periods to take a two-goal lead into the third period.
Judd Blackwater opened the game with a shorthanded goal, his 11th of the season, followed by an Anthony Peluso tally for the lead.
Las Vegas (31-28-7) scored early in the third period with a power-play goal by defenseman John Schwarz just 1:49 into the period, assisted by Mick Lawrence and Alex Bourret.
Just under four minutes later, Bourret tallied a goal of his own, his 16th of the season, assisted by Mike Madill and Adam Miller. With the assist, Miller extended his points-streak to a team-record 14th game.
Jimmy Spratt stopped 22 of 25 shots.
The Wranglers are now tied for fifth place in the conference with 69 points, equaling that of the Stockton Thunder. They resume play next Wednesday in Ontario.
Discussion: comments so far…
Comments are moderated by Las Vegas Sun editors. Our goal is not to limit the discussion, but rather to elevate it. Comments should be relevant and contain no abusive language. Comments that are off-topic, vulgar, profane or include personal attacks will be removed. Full comments policy. Additionally, we now display comments from trusted commenters by default. Those wishing to become a trusted commenter need to verify their identity or sign in with Facebook Connect to tie their Facebook account to their Las Vegas Sun account. For more on this change, read our story about how it works and why we did it.
Only trusted comments are displayed on this page. Untrusted comments have expired from this story.
No trusted comments have been posted.
Post a comment
Most Popular
- Viewed
- Discussed
- E-mailed
- UNLV can move forward without the burden of losing streak to San Diego State
- A wife’s wisdom shows birth control issue needn’t be divisive
- Surprise links, negotiated deals addressed by commissioners
- Motorcycle accident claims life of man in northeast valley
- Hope and change and … what’s missing?
- New York mayor has the right idea
- We don’t need a CEO in charge
- Paying our own way
- Country has ‘given’ citizens a lot
- Jerry Tarkanian: Mike Moser impresses yet again on a day to remember former Rebel greats
Blogs
The Kats Report
Color from scene at Thomas & Mack: We have a wire job! Rebels win, and Louie Armstrong sings!
South Point owner Michael Gaughan's take on 'Vegas Stripped': 'I'll give it an 8' (4 Comments)
Author relishes writing the life story of ‘larger-than-life’ Oscar Goodman (3 Comments)
Elsewhere
Landowner: All roads could lead to Uxbridge casino
Revel reveals smoke-free casino opening
Cirque du Soleil show in Sands China casino to close this month
Meet the woman behind Sheldon Adelson
The Sun
Locally owned and independent for more than 50 years.
Not much more to say than the POWER PLAY sucks!!!
Sat. Wranglers had 5 ON 3 AND got nothing in the net and IF I AM CORRECT IN FRIDAY NIGHTS GAME WE HAD A POWER PLAY AND DID NOT TAKE ONE SHOT.NOT ONE. Quailty shot is ther such a thing NOT Quit passing and take the shot. Alaska scored from when they were a couple feet away from the blue line because they shoot the puck at the net. We either pass pass or hold on to it at the point, don't get it, gotta get goals to win games, it only takes one goal to win. Sometimes are skates looked liked they were like cement shoes no movement just standing and watching the play develope but for the other team.
How bad do the Wranglers want it??????
Wow, you're awefully critical of the team! Sometimes in hockey you have to take a few extra passes to take a quality shot. Granted, the Aces defence is really good, and, if you noticed on our power play, they were right up on our d-men at the point preventing passes or shots and clearing the shhoting lane for the goalie to see the shooter(Aces are 7th ranked on the PK; 1st in the National Conference and our Power Play is ranked 17th out of 20 teams and dead last in the National Conference) The Aces seem to have a knack of scoring at the end of a Wranglers shift, when the players are tired, usually after an icing, when line changes are allowed. Not much you can do about that except play better D and hope the goalie bails you out. If you were paying close attention, you would have noticed that. Also, all 3 games were poorly called by the referees all weekend and the goalies need to step up. Spratt has a slow glove hand, and Gistedt has a gaping 5 hole. Also factor in that on Friday night, the team lost Mick Lawrence for the remainder of the game after his fight, and the team also had a few guys returning from San Antonio. So the team chemistry was just a bit off. It's obvious just by looking at where some pucks were or weren't passed to.
You asked how bad do the players want it? Really? You think they just show up to the rink to entertain you? They're professional atheletes, and their goal is to make it to the next level and achieve success. We as fans can only support them. Look at it this way, do people go in to your work and criticize your every action at work the next day for everyone to see? I'm gonna guess more than likely no. Ease off a bit and cheer them on. Yeah, we as fans, we're entitled to our opinion, however, we should also be the first to support them
I have to agree with barkeep on this one... everyone plays the game to win, cause i dont know who ever plays to lose?