Rockford, IL – The Rockford IceHogs concluded their residence stand with a 5-1 loss to the Grand Rapids Griffins on Wednesday night time contained in the BMO Heart.
Grand Rapids jumped out to an early lead with two objectives within the first eight minutes. AHL main scorer John Leonard was left alone by the close to put up and scored his eleventh of the 12 months.
Three minutes later, Amadeus Lombardi elevated a backhand shot over the IceHogs’ Stanislav Berezhnoy to double the lead.
The Griffins earned the video games’ first energy play with the Hogs taking a bench minor at 4:33 of the 2nd. On the person benefit, Austin Watson noticed Eduards Tralmaks on the close to facet who blasted a drive residence for the 3-0 lead.
Earlier than the 2nd interval completed, Connor Mylymok obtained the BMO crowd going, dropping the mitts and Watson to the ice.
Midway by means of the third body, GR defenseman William Lagesson let a seeing-eye shot go from the purpose that snuck by means of for a 4-0 Griffins’ benefit.
With eight minutes remaining, Carson Bantle tacked on the Griffins’ fifth aim from inbetween the hashmarks. On its fourth energy play of the interval, the Hogs man benefit transformed. Gavin Hayes’ shot deflected off of Jamie Engelbert and previous Sebastian Cossa to chop the deficit to 5-1.
