Kalamazoo, MI – Needing a win to pull within a game of fourth place, the Kalamazoo Wings rung up one of their best efforts of the season to dismantle the Muskegon Fury 8-1 on ZOOperstars! Night.
Before the enthusiastic crowd of 4,950 at Wings Stadium got settled in their seats, Muskegon’s Adam Bartholomay (14th) deflected a Dave Van Drunen blast past Jeff Reynaert to give the Fury a 1-0 lead.
Kalamazoo answered back five minutes later with a tally from Lucas Drake (12th), which knotted the game at 1-1 and extended the forward’s point streak to seven games.
Kory Karlander (31st) propelled the K-Wings ahead for good midway in the period scoring on his own rebound to give Kalamazoo a 2-1 lead.
Pouring it on in the second, Kalamazoo exploded for four unanswered tallies. Karlander recorded his second of the night and 32nd of the season on a power-play strike 7:34 into the period.
Three minutes later on a rebound, Drake (13th) ticked the twine for his second of the night. Kalamazoo’s power-play punched in two more goals from Travis Granbois (7th) and Mike Manley (11th) to extend their lead to 6-1.
Drake (14th) notched his first hat trick of the season with a knuckle puck from the slot 31 seconds into the third. The hat trick was the K-Wings fourth this season and third against Muskegon.
Ryan Markham (6th) added salt into the Fury’s wound scoring on a one-timer at the 16:42 mark to close out the scoring for the K-Wings.
For Game Stats: http://www.pointstreak.com/prostats/gamesheet_full.html?gameid=533947.
The K-Wings continue their three-game home stand tomorrow, Sunday, March 9th with a 4 p.m. face-off versus the Bloomington PrairieThunder on Kidz Club Day featuring Dora the Explorer presented by Charter Media and WKFR.
Single
game tickets for the entire K-Wings 2007-08 home schedule
are currently on sale at the Wings
Stadium Ticket
Office. Tickets range from $9-$14. Prices for K-Wings games
will increase $1 for premium game nights (Orange Ice, Pink
Ice, Green Ice & New Years Eve). Fans are also encouraged
to purchase their game tickets in advance, as they will save
$1 per ticket by getting their seats prior to a game day.
Ticket Office hours are Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and
Saturday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. For more information, call the
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at (269) 345-5101.
For
more information about tonight’s
game, please contact Director of Public Relations/Broadcaster
Mike Modugno
at (269) 349-9772 extension 220.
