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The Amarillo Wranglers performed three video games in three days in two cities.
Friday and Saturday evening Amarillo performed host to the Odessa Jackalopes. Amarillo got here up quick in an thrilling 4-3 time beyond regulation loss, then fell to the Jackalopes 4-0 on Saturday.
On Sunday, the Wranglers took a four-hour bus experience to Oklahoma Metropolis the place they had been shutout as soon as once more by the Warriors 4-0.
The Wranglers are actually 26-16-6-2 with 60 factors sitting in fourth place of the North American Hockey League South Division.
The Amarillo Wranglers are off this weekend earlier than they hit the highway to play two video games towards South Division rival Shreveport.
The Jackalopes got here into city on the lookout for respect. The primary interval had a complete of 23 photographs and not using a single puck hitting the again of the web.
Amarillo was up 2-0 early till the 7:06 mark of the second interval when on a power-play Jackalopes winger Kamron Dunn sniped one between the pipes to deliver Odessa inside one objective.
Two quick minutes later Jackalopes’ Marcus Fecko bounced one previous Amarillo goalie Connor McDonough to tie this sport up.
Inside three minutes of the beginning of the third interval the Jackalopes had been capable of take a 3-2 lead after Kowin Belsterling scored his eighth objective of the season. With lower than two minutes left on this nailbiter, Roman Zap took a lightning cross from not too long ago dedicated Division I College of Alaska at Anchorage defenseman Nolan Gagnon to tie this thrilling sport 3-3. This was Zap’s sixteenth objective of the season, giving him a complete of 42 factors, tying him with Topi Puikkonen and Jack Ivey for the workforce lead in factors.
For the league main nineteenth time this season, the Wranglers went into time beyond regulation. Inside eight seconds remaining of the five-minute time beyond regulation interval, Jackalopes winger Dunn scored his second objective of the night to finish this time beyond regulation thriller.
In entrance of one of many season’s largest crowds and in a surprising and transferring ceremony in celebration of native hockey legend, Jason Chafe was acknowledged for his contribution to the game of hockey and his efforts to develop hockey inside our nice neighborhood. This evening additionally noticed milestones for 2 of the Amarillo Wranglers’ fan favorites Roman Zap and Luke Morris, each of whom celebrated their one centesimal sport within the NAHL this Saturday night. The hockey sport was awkward from the very starting, when a misguided puck discovered its well past Wranglers goalie Connor McDonough to set the tone for the night’s hockey sport. The Jackalopes scored three extra unanswered objectives in a disappointing loss for the Wranglers 4-0.
On account of some cumbersome scheduling by the NAHL, the Wranglers needed to make the 4-hour drive to Oklahoma Metropolis to play the Warriors in a one sport sequence. Sadly for the Wranglers, Saturday evening’s efficiency was indicative of Sunday evening’s efficiency, because the Amarillo Wranglers misplaced 1-4 to the Oklahoma Warriors.
Jason Chafe is the native hockey icon who performed for the Amarillo Gorillas, a minor league hockey workforce.
This workforce was most not too long ago affiliated with the now defunct Central Hockey League (CHL). Jason earned the nickname “one punch” on account of one of the basic Donnybrooks within the historical past of Amarillo Hockey. Jason with “one punch”, took down an aggressor. The YouTube video of this “go time” has been considered nicely over 6,000 instances.
Jason was acknowledged Saturday evening on the Budweiser Bullpen. A banner elevating ceremony came about in his honor in a gorgeous pregame ceremony with the banner for the Amarillo Hockey Group Hero raised, proudly displaying the purple No. 10 and the basic Gorillas brand.
“This meant the whole lot to me,” Chafe mentioned. “My love for hockey, my love for the neighborhood and my love for my household. All of it got here full circle. This ceremony represents the neighborhood, our love and keenness for each other, and the nice sport of hockey.”
Jason just isn’t solely an iconic hockey participant locally however he’s additionally a visionary and a pioneer relative to the expansion of youth hockey in our neighborhood.
His timeless dedication to those younger kids is quantifiable. The direct neighborhood interplay by way of teaching, instructional alternatives or his revered enterprise, Jason Chafe’s State Farm is at all times welcomed. We’re fortunate to have him.
We at Press Cross Sports activities congratulate Jason Chafe not only for this wonderful honor, however who you might be as a human being. Thanks.
Please pay attention for Tommy Tee‘s weekly recap of the Amarillo Wranglers hockey on the “Drive at 5” with Lance Lahnert each Thursday afternoon at 5 p.m. completely on 102.9 FM the Panhandle Sports activities Star.
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