On their third try, the Bucks were able to break through and get their 300th win in franchise history, defeating the Corpus Christi IceRays 2-0 tonight at the American Bank Center.
Kyle Gajewski held the IceRays off the board, Neil Trimm scored his second goal of the season in his return from a month-long stint on the injured reserve, and Darryl Smith got a goal, albeit an empty-netter, to lead the Bucks to the win.
As I expected would eventually be the case after all of Jean-Philippe Levasseur's close calls, Gajewski became the first Bucks netminder to earn a shutout this season, setting aside all 33 shots he faced.
Eric Giosa and Cody Hamilton assisted on Trimm's goal, while Curtis Billsten has what is currently the lone assist on Smith's and got into his first fight in the CHL when he tussled with Matt Smyth, who got a myriad of penalties for his instigating.
There were also a couple of other fights in the game, which seems like it should have been pretty entertaining.
The Bucks were unable to capitalize on any of their seven power-play opportunities, which I'm sure Coach Ruskowski wasn't thrilled with, but they were able to find a way to win.
They improve to 13-6-4 (30 points), while the IceRays fall to 8-13-4 (20 points).
You can read more about the victory in Bryan Benway's recap, and I'll post some more links when they're ready.
UPDATE: For more, you can check out Benway's blog, Greg Rajan' s blog post and Rajan's story for the Caller-Times.
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I think coach needs to go find a guy who is gonna work hard every guy and lead this team cause our captain is not doing it right now. who are leading this team??? Bryan said that the team didnt do so well or like coach wasnt to happy with the way it went this morning. whats up with that? u expect terrys team to come out ready to play and by me reading that seems like they are not. maybe his days are over (Terry)...... i dont get this team... go home if u dont want to play for this team. (players)
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