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April 20, 2007

P-Bruins even series

Hartford, Conn. – The Providence Bruins tied their opening round Calder Cup playoff series with a 4-2 win over the Wolf Pack in Hartford last night.

Spreading out the scoring distribution, the P-Bruins got goals from Sean Curry, Sean Bentivoglio, Pascal Pelletier and Nate DiCasmirro.

Dennis Packard carried the puck into the zone and dropped it off behind the net for David Krejci who passed it to Curry at the top of the right face off circle. With traffic in front of the net Curry sent the puck top shelf past Wolf Pack net minder Al Montoya to give Providence a 1-0 lead at 7:55 of the first period.

The P-Bruins increased their lead to 2-0 later in the period while on a 5-on-3 power play after Bentivoglio redirected the puck into the net on a Ryan Glenn shot.

Hartford cut the lead in half at the 6:05 mark of the second period on a Hugh Jessiman goal but Providence scored with less than two minutes to play in the period, again on the power play, on a shot by Curry that deflected off the body of Pelletier and into the net.

In the third period, Hartford again moved within a goal at the 12:54 mark as Alex Bourret carried the puck into the zone, passed it to Jarkko Immonen at the right face off circle, who quickly shuffled the puck to Nigel Dawes waiting at the back door to bat it past Bruins goalie Hannu Toivonen.

Providence rounded out the scoring with an empty net goal at 19:39.

Toivonen stopped 22 of 24 shots he faced for the P-Bruins, while Montoya made 11 saves for the Wolf Pack. Providence was 2 for 5 on the power play, while Hartford went 0 for 5 on the man-advantage.

The P-Bruins return to action for Game 3 and Game 4 of the first round at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center on tomorrow at 7:05 p.m. and again Tuesday at 7:05 p.m.

Posted by Thom Cahir  at 9:47 PM to P-Bruins | Permalink

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