The Lake Erie Monsters wrapped up a five game home stand with a 4-3 win on Wednesday, taking on 1-2-0-1 Milwaukee Admirals squad. The Admirals primary difficulty this season has been in the scoring department, netting just seven pucks in four games. So far, the Monsters were 2-1-0-1 but the two losses represented their last two outings. They needed to close out the home ice with a win since the Hamilton Bulldogs, leaders of the Western Conference North Division were off to a 4-0 start. The Monsters sat in fourth place, three points back of the Bulldogs.
Jason Bacashihua was in net for his second straight start. He was 1-1 on the season, the loss a sudden death shootout in the Monsters last outing.
The beginning of the first period was unimpressive on both sides of the ice, with both teams shooting a lot, but without much on the puck
Lake Erie went on the first power play of the night with 11:31 left in the period. The offensive pressure was there, even as they registered a cross-bar hit at one point, but the Monsters couldn’t score.
Milwaukeegot their first power play attempt almost immediately after the penalty kill on an interference call on Chris Durno. Milwaukeehad one nice shot early in the penalty kill, but the Monsters once again looked good on the kill, even squeaking off a short-handed shot by Captain Brian Willsie.
Phillipe Dupuis put the Monsters right back to short-handed with a hooking call.
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