Wild Sunk by Admirals, 6-1
DES MOINES, IA – The Milwaukee Admirals jumped out to a 3-0 lead, dominating the Iowa Wild in a 6-1 victory. Three second period goals helped to blow this game open. Kiefer Sherwood had a pair of goals for Milwaukee. Steven Fogarty had the only tally of the night for Iowa.
Milwaukee took the lead 8:36 in the contest. Cole Schneider found Tommy Novak near the right face-off circle, who wristed a seeing eye wrist shot through the legs of a Wild defenseman past Iowa netminder Jesper Wallstedt for his fifth goal of the year.
That one goal lead held through the first period in almost 10 minutes into the second before Milwaukee began to blow this game open. At 9:49 of the second John Leonard made a beautiful pass through the neutral zone right onto the tape of Tim Schaller, who entered the Iowa zone on a breakaway. He beat Wallstedt with a backhander for his second goal of the year.
A little less than four minutes later, Milwaukee was back on the board. The Wild were having trouble getting the puck out of their own zone, with the puck eventually loose in the slot area. Jimmy Huntington was able to gain control, putting a shot past the Wild netminder for his third goal of the year.
Less than a minute later, Fogarty struck. Joe Hicketts took a shot that Fogarty redirected past the Admirals net, but Sammy Walker put it back in front where Fogarty tipped the puck past Yaroslav Askarov for his third goal of the year.
Iowa was back in the game, but Milwaukee restored their two-goal advantage with a little less than two minutes left in the frame. Adam Wilsby passed the puck to Sherwood who buried a one-timer for his first goal of the night.
Milwaukee sealed the victory with two goals scored in the span of 10 seconds just after the two-minute mark if the third. At 2:13, Sherwood took a pass from Huntington and beat Wallstedt with his fifth goal of the year. Just 10 seconds later, have a warm be warming will being warming made it 6-1 with his second goal of the season. That would be the final.
Wallstedt stopped 28 of 34 shots. The rookie is 1-1-3. Huntington had a goal and two assists for Milwaukee.
These teams will square off again on Saturday evening at 6 p.m. at UM-Milwaukee Panther Arena.
by Robert Pannier
