Rockford has the division champs on the ropes.
Joey Anderson’s pure hat trick was a part of a four-point evening and Drew Commesso made 30 saves to proceed his torrid begin to the postseason, main the IceHogs to a 6-1 win at Milwaukee on Saturday evening and a 2-0 benefit of their best-of-five Central Division semifinal collection.
The scene shifts throughout the state line to Rockford for Sport 3 on Wednesday and, if essential, Sport 4 on Friday.
Anderson scored the primary three targets of the sport to document the primary Calder Cup Playoff hat trick ever by an IceHogs skater. Samuel Savoie fed him off an Admirals turnover for a fast objective simply 1:09 into the sport, Brett Seney discovered him with a move from behind the web within the ultimate minute of the opening interval, and Kevin Korchinski sprung him on a breakaway 1:02 into the second as Rockford maintained the momentum they grabbed with their late comeback victory in Sport 1.
Savoie, Seney and Aidan Thompson tacked on insurance coverage markers, whereas Commesso held his postseason save share regular at .969 along with his fourth consecutive win to start the playoffs.
Marc Del Gaizo scored the one objective for Milwaukee, which has misplaced back-to-back video games (excluding shootouts) for the primary time since Jan. 15 at Charlotte and Jan. 18 at Texas.
Matt Murray (0-2), who had received his final eight begins within the common season, stopped 13 of 18 photographs within the loss.
(Rockford leads collection, 2-0)
Sport 1 – Thu., Might 1 – Rockford 3, MILWAUKEE 2 (OT)
Sport 2 – Sat., Might 3 – Rockford 6, MILWAUKEE 1
Sport 3 – Wed., Might 7 – Milwaukee at Rockford, 8:00
*Sport 4 – Fri., Might 9 – Milwaukee at Rockford, 8:00
*Sport 5 – Solar., Might 11 – Rockford at Milwaukee, 5:00
*if essential… All occasions Japanese
