Charles Panchisin scored the lone goal in the skills competition to give the visiting Rebels a 3 – 2 shootout win over the Danbury Hat Tricks. Panchisin scored in regulation along with Jared Coccimiglio who scored a shorthanded goal.
It was the Rebels second straight win.
Panchisin opened the scoring at 3:30 into the first period. Paddy Fortune picked up the loose puck at center ice along the near side boards and carried it into the offensive zone. As he reached the top of the faceoff circle Fortune made a centering pass out front to Brock Jones. Jones went towards the net, stopped and passed the biscuit back to Panchisin in the slot and Panchisin shot it past Danbury netminder Lukas Fursten for Panchisin’s sixteenth goal of the season.
With 2:49 remining in the first, Jones was assessed a four-minute penalty which carried over into the second period. Thirty-eight seconds into the middle stanza, the Hat Tricks’ Noah Ziskie evened the score at one. After setting up the play, the puck finally went to Danbury’s Grant Dietz who was to the left side of Jakub Krbecek. Dietz made a crisp pass to Ziskie in the slot and Ziskie took a one-timer that beat Krbecek long side for Ziskie’s seventh of the season.
At 8:43 into the second, Shane Carr was called for tripping to put Danbury on the man advantage. As time was winding down on the powerplay, Klaus Jogi intercepted a Hat Tricks pass at the top of the slot and pushed the puck forward to Coccimiglio who outskated a Tricks defender and Coccimiglio walked in all alone on Fursten and beat his former teammate to give the Rebels a 2 – 1 lead.
Danbury’s Wyatt Stefan tied the score at two just 1:37 into the third period. After Krbecek made a left pad save, the deep rebound went back to Ziskie at the top of the point. Ziskie passed the biscuit downlow to Stefan, who was to the right of Krbecek, and Stefan redirected the puck past the fallen Rebels netminder and into the back of the net for Stefan’s twelfth goal of the season.
After regulation ended knotted at two, the contest went into overtime where the Rebels thought that Sonny DiNubile scored the game winner with a minute left in the extra period but it was ruled DiNubile kicked the puck into the net and the goal was disallowed sending it into the skills competition with Panchisin scoring the only goal to give the Rebels the 3 – 2 win.
Krbecek stopped 36 of 38 shots while Fursten turned aside 26 of 28. Click HERE for the complete box score.
