
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – After securing a win in Recreation Among the finest of three sequence, the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs couldn’t discover a rhythm within the remaining two video games towards the Knoxville Ice Bears, leading to elimination from the SPHL playoffs within the first spherical.
Within the deciding sport three, Carson Gallagher evened the rating within the first interval, scoring the primary aim of the playoffs on the Berglund Heart for the Dawgs. Tommy Munichiello would attain the again of the online within the third interval.
In the meantime, Bears goaltender Stephen Mundinger stopped 38-of-40 pictures he confronted in path to the 6-2 last that ended Roanoke’s season.
“It was a wonderful first interval,” started Dawgs head coach Dan Bremner. “Sadly, what we’re going to recollect is the entire lack of execution by the whole second interval. It’s robust room in there proper now as a result of all people believed that they’d what it took to go additional, go deeper, possibly get one thing particular executed and. Consistency is vital, and we didn’t have it.”
Following the ultimate buzzer, a particular second between longtime Dawgs mainstay Mac Jansen befell, the place the left winger emotionally took within the second to soak within the crowd from middle ice.
“It’s robust. It’s a passionate fanbase. We now have a bunch of passionate gamers,” he remarked, choked up, after the sport. “To underachieve, it’s robust.”
Jansen served as an alternate captain and player-assistant coach this previous season.
This 12 months, the Dawgs set a franchise document with a win streak within the common season and complete wins within the common season, in addition to an attendance document with a number of promote outs on the Berglund Heart.
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