The Hamilton Bulldogs defeated the Adirondack Phantoms 4-3 in a shootout on Saturday night. Trailing 3-1 with five minutes remaining in regulation time Hamilton got goals 1:27 apart from Kyle Klubertanz and Hunter Bishop to tie the game and send it to overtime and eventually the shootout.

In the shootout Aaron Palushaj and Dustin Boyd scored for the Bulldogs while Robert Mayer stopped all four Adirondak attempts,

Currently streaking – Defenseman Brendon Nash 2g 5ass last seven games.  Ben Maxwell 3g 3ass last three games.  In the eight games since he missed seven with an upper boyd injury (believed to be a shoulder) Alexander Avtsin has 6 assists..  Aaron Palushaj 2g 2ass last three games And the Bulldogs matched a season high with their fifth straight win, duplicating a streak from Oct. 27 to Nov. 5. Hamilton is now three points up on second-place Manitoba in the North Division race.

 
 

 

Scoring Summary:
1st Period:
1. HAM – Ben Maxwell – 9 (Alexander Avtsin) – 12:06

2nd Period:
2. ADK – Stefan Legein – 4 (Kevin Marshall) – 5:40
3. ADK – J.P. Testwuide – 1 (Cullen Eddy) – 11:12
4. ADK – Eric Wellwood – 10 (Mike Testwuide, Jonathon Kalinski) – 13:10

3rd Period:
5. HAM – Kyle Klubertanz – 6 (Ben Maxwell) – 13:39
6. HAM – Hunter Bishop – 2 (Gabriel Dumont, Frederic St. Denis) – 15:06

Overtime:
No Scoring

Shootout:

HAM – Aaron Palushaj – Goal                              ADK – Michael Ryan – No Goal
HAM – Hunter Bishop – No Goal                          ADK – Greg Moore – No Goal
HAM – Alexander Avtsin – No Goal                      ADK – Denis Hamel – No Goal
HAM – Dustin Boyd – Goal                                  ADK – Luke Pither – No Goal

Scoring:
Adirondack: 0-3-0-0-0—3
Hamilton: 1-0-2-0-1—4

Shots:
Adirondack: 6-7-9-2-0—24
Hamilton: 14-2-10-3-1—30

Goaltending:
Adirondack: Johan Backlund (29 shots, 26 saves)
Hamilton: Robert Mayer (24 shots, 21 saves)

Power Play:
Adirondack: 0-for-0
Hamilton: 0-for-0

Attendance: 3,877

Three Stars:
1. HAM – Aaron Palushaj (-1, 1 shot, shootout winner)
2. ADK – Eric Wellwood (1 goal, +1, 3 shots)
3. ADK – J.P. Testwuide (1 goal, +1, 1 shot)

# Player GP G A PTS +/- PIM PP SHG SOG SH%
51 David Desharnais (X) 35 10 35 45 14 24 1 3 70 14.3
23 Max Pacioretty (X) 27 17 15 32 4 20 7 0 132 12.9
19 Ben Maxwell 35 9 22 31 -2 26 6 0 105 8.6
28 Aaron Palushaj 35 7 19 26 5 18 2 0 69 10.1
4 Brendon Nash 43 3 20 23 11 41 3 0 45 6.7
10 J.T. Wyman 44 12 9 21 6 20 2 0 93 12.9
15 Kyle Klubertanz 40 6 13 19 -4 26 1 0 65 9.2
72 Mathieu Carle 36 8 7 15 14 22 2 0 63 12.7
22 Andreas Engqvist (X) 38 6 8 14 5 10 1 0 73 8.2
20 Ryan Russell 43 6 8 14 11 25 0 0 76 7.9
26 Alexander Avtsin 29 4 10 14 3 8 1 0 47 8.5
3 Brett Festerling (total) 41 3 11 14 -7 47 2 0 56 5.4
  SYR 32 3 9 12 -10 41 2 0 48 6.3
  HAM 9 0 2 2 3 6 0 0 8 0.0
32 Frederic St. Denis 43 1 13 14 8 10 1 0 61 1.6
12 Andrew Conboy 35 8 5 13 5 53 0 0 53 15.1
7 Yannick Weber (X) 15 8 4 12 -5 10 4 0 51 15.7
17 Dustin Boyd 16 11 0 11 -1 8 6 1 64 17.2
14 Olivier Fortier 37 7 4 11 -5 11 5 0 47 14.9
40 Gabriel Dumont 38 2 9 11 -6 55 0 0 89 2.2
25 Ryan White (X) 28 2 8 10 -3 64 1 0 55 3.6
5 Alex Henry 44 0 8 8 0 72 0 0 22 0.0
61 Hunter Bishop 13 2 1 3 2 4 0 0 19 10.5
85 Neil Petruic 22 0 2 2 3 21 0 0 15 0.0
18 Dany Masse 3 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 3 33.3
16 David Urquhart 15 0 1 1 0 6 0 0 8 0.0
1 Curtis Sanford 27 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0.0
45 Peter Delmas (X) 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
35 Robert Mayer 17 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0.0
24 Ian Schultz 26 0 0 0 -5 21 0 0 26 0.0
44 Jimmy Bonneau 43 0 0 0 -5 104 0 0 19 0.0
  BENCH 44 5       12     5  
  TOTALS 44 135 224 354 60 705 43 4 1383 0.094
# Goalies GP Mins W L SL SO GA GAA SVS SV%
1 Curtis Sanford 27 1533 17 7 1 4 44 1.72 675 0.939
45 Peter Delmas (X) 2 125 1 0 1 0 4 1.92 56 0.933
35 Robert Mayer 17 1019 8 7 2 0 52 3.06 408 0.887
  TOTALS 44 2677 26 14 4 4 100 2.24 1139 0.919