Friday, December 31, 2010

SWEDEN COMES BACK TO DOWN ICE WOLVES

Press Release

The SJHL champion La Ronge Ice Wolves started strong against the Swedish Under 17 team on Thursday night, but they could not sustain the momentum and lost 5-3 as the Swedes have taken the first two games of their four game set against SJHL teams.

Marc-Andre Carre got things started on the right foot for the Wolves when he put one behind Swedish netminder Marcus Hegberg just six minutes into the hockey game. A Robert Monfore power play goal then put the Wolves up by two after twenty minutes and another goal by Monfore at the 7:41 mark of the 2nd period had many of the over one thousand in attendance thinking the home team would be victorious.

The Swedes had other thoughts though. Daniel Ljunngren got Sweden’s first goal of the game at the 10:18 mark of the 2nd and they closed it to one at the 16:46 mark when Tobias Ternqvist put one behind Myles Hovdebo making it 3-2 after two periods.

While the first period was all La Ronge, the 3rd period was all Sweden. Tobias Ekberg tied the game at 3 at the 4:07 mark and just over three minutes later on the power play at 7:26, Mattias Kalin gave Sweden the lead. The Swedes kept coming at the Ice Wolves and made it a two goal deficit just ninety seconds later when Erik Karlsson solved Hovdebo for the last goal of the evening.

The Swedes will take New Years Eve off and be back in action on New Year’s afternoon when they take on the Humboldt Broncos in a 3 p.m start. The tour will wind up with a game in the Battlefords on January 3.

(Nathan can be reached at fourniern@students.nescom.edu)

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