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Game Summary: November 9, 2004 - RoughRiders 5 Indiana 4
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Game Summary: November 9, 2004 - RoughRiders 5 Indiana 4
<P>Ted Purcell scored the game winning goal with 2:59 left in the third period as the RoughRiders defeated host Indiana 5-4 Tuesday night to move past the Ice into sole possession of first place in the United States Hockey League’s East Division.</P>
<P>Purcell delivered the winner after Shane Lovdahl’s drive from the high slot was blocked by Indiana’s Ryan Peckskamp. Purcell pounced on the loose puck in the left wing circle and wristed it past Indiana goaltender B.J. O’Brien.</P>
<P>Purcell’s goal gave the Riders their fourth lead of the night. The Riders were able to make that advantage stick after the Ice had come back to tie the score each of the first three times they fell behind.</P>
<P>Purcell (one goal, one assist) was one of five Riders to notch at least two points. Shane Lovdahl led the attack with one goal and two assists, while Justin Abdelkader scored a pair of goals.</P>
<P>The Riders entered the third period up 4-3, but Jason Wiley converted Travis Winter’s goalmouth feed at 2:15 to knot up the game.</P>
<P>After surrendering that goal, Rider goaltender Dan Tormey stonewalled the Ice the rest of the way. Tormey stopped 14 shots in the third period alone and made 28 saves on the night.</P>
<P>It was the Riders who had to come from behind in the second period. Cedar Rapids was trailing 3-2 when Abdelkader evened the score at 10:38 of the second with his second goal of the game. Abdelkader backhanded a Rob Ricci centering pass home just after the end of a Rider power play.</P>
<P>The Riders were on the man advantage when Alec Martinez fired a low one timer from the top of the right wing circle past O’Brien to snap the 3-3 tie at 14:04 of the second.</P>
<P>Indiana had moved in front 3-2 7:44 into the second when Eddie Del Grosso beat Tormey from the left wing circle on a 2-on-1 rush.</P>
<P>The Riders twice took first period leads; the Ice equalized twice. The Riders were on the power play when Shane Lovdahl’s blue line blast sailed past O’Brien to put Cedar Rapids up 1-0 at the 2:42 mark.</P>
<P>Ryan Peckskamp responded for the Ice at 7:35 by backhanding a Todd McIlrath centering pass over Tormey. That assist gave McIlrath points in ten straight games. McIlrath’s point scoring streak is the longest such run in the USHL this season. </P>
<P>The Riders were once again in front after Abdelkader buried an Erik Felde centering pass from the doorstep at 12:29.</P>
<P>The Riders appeared set to the 2-1 lead into the first intermission until the Ice’s Mike Beck scored with just one second left in the period. Beck charged to the Rider blue line and fired a long shot past Tormey on the short side to just beat the horn. </P>
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Posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 (Archive on Wednesday, November 10, 2004)
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