The Rebels scored five, second period goals en route to a 7 – 2 win over the visiting New Jersey Titans. Charles Panchisin and Jared Coccimiglio each had a pair of tallies. It was the Rebels fifth straight victory, their longest winning streak since the team relocated back to the Philadelphia area. Brock Jones, Paddy Fortune and Billy Sheridan also lit the lamp.
It was the second time this season that the Rebels have scored seven goals in a game (the other being November 18 when they defeated Danbury 7 – 4 on the road).
Jones opened the scoring at 8:09 into the first period. With play just inside the offensive zone, Jones stripped the puck off a Titan forward and made a cross-ice pass to Panchisin at the top of the far side faceoff circle. Panchisin skated around a couple of Titans and sent a return cross-ice pass to Jones who took a wrist shot from the faceoff dot that beat New Jersey goalie Dylan Krick, high short side for Jones’ sixth of the season.
New Jersey’s Dominik Bartecko evened the score at one with 2:04 remaining in the first. As Julian Brown tried to keep the puck in the offensive zone along the near side boards, the biscuit bounced off his glove and right to the Titans’ Jack Hillier who skated through center ice and into the Rebels zone on a 2-on-0 with Bartecko. As Hillier reached the hash marks, he passed the puck to Bartecko on his left and Bartecko redirected the biscuit past Jakub Krbecek for Bartecko’s nineteenth of the season.
The Titans took their only lead of the night just 1:26 into the middle stanza. New Jersey’s Ryan Novo carried the puck into the offensive zone along the far side boards and went to the corner, stopped and sent a pass back to Dominick Rivelli at the end of the faceoff circle. Rivelli took a clapper that was saved by Krbecek but the rebound came right out to Logan Renkowski on the doorstep and Renkowski deposited the puck into the back of the net.
It was then all Rebels all the time scoring six unanswered goals and five in the second period alone.
At 3:53 into the second, New Jersey’s Kai Elkie was called for tripping to give the Rebels the man advantage. Twenty-three seconds later Panchisin scored his first of the game to even the score at two. Ryan Vaites brought the puck out of his own end and towards center ice where he turned to his left and made a drop pass to Ryan Bunting who carried the puck into the Titans zone. As Bunting gained the line, he passed the biscuit to Panchisin on his right and Panchisin split the New Jersey defenders and took a wrist shot that beat Krick high, glove side and knock the water bottle off the top of the net.
Fortune gave the Rebels the lead for good at 6:22 into the second on a nice individual effort. Fortune picked up the loose puck at the top of the far side faceoff circle in the New Jersey end. He skated back towards the blueline and then turned towards his left and headed straight to the net where he took a wrist shot from the slot that beat Krick high, short side for Fortune’s seventh goal of the season.
A minute and twenty-two seconds later Sheridan doubled the Rebels lead. Sonny DiNublie picked up the loose puck in his own near side corner and rimmed a pass around the end wall to Luke Janviriya who went to make a long outlet pass to Sheridan breaking down the near side boards. As Janviriya made the mid-air pass, the puck went off the stick of New Jersey’s Ryan Friedman and straight to Sheridan who took a sharp-angle shot from the bottom of the near side faceoff circle that beat Krick, high long side for Sheridan’s sixth of the season.
Coccimiglio scored his first of the night, a powerplay goal, with 5:15 remaining in the second. As Coccimiglio gained the line, he dropped the puck back to Jett Otwell at the point. Otwell passed the biscuit up to Fortune along the near side boards, and Fortune shuttled the puck to Coccimiglio who cut across the goalmouth and went from his right, to his left and back to his right and wristed the biscuit up and over the fallen Krick and into the back of the net to make it a 5 – 2 game.
Coccimiglio netted his second goal of the game with twenty-two seconds remaining in the middle stanza to make it 6 – 2. It was Coccimiglio’s seventeenth of the season.
Panchisin closed out the scoring at 6:07 into the final period to make it 7 – 2. It was Panchisin’s fourth point of the game and his twentieth goal of the season, which ranks him seventeenth overall in the league in goals.
Krbecek stopped 26 of 28 shots while New Jersey’s netminders turned aside 25 of 32. Click here for the complete box score.
The Rebels now will be off for the final time this upcoming weekend and then resume play next Tuesday, March 5th against the same Titans. The Rebels will play ten games in March (five of them on home ice).
