South Carolina Stingrays

Stingrays Weekly Recap: Pacan and Power

(Mark Dekanich, via the Stingrays)

Alternate captain Austin Fyten and defenseman Tyler Lewington were recalled and reassigned respectively to the Hershey Bears on Black Friday. They did however, play with the Stingrays against the Orlando Solar Bears to start the week.

Last Tuesday night, the power play hummed like an efficient machine, churning out four goals against Orlando. The power play previously had five goals in 64 attempts. Brendan Ellis scored off multiple stick deflections, Brett Cameron snapped a shot off of Andrew Rowe‘s faceoff win, Austin Fyten threw the puck into the empty net after Rob Madore misplayed it behind the cage, and David Pacan scored his first of the year on the power play. Pacan came into the game with no goals all season; he left with three.

Head coach Spencer Carbery announced the addition of Paul Rodrigues from the Pensacola Ice Flyers (SPHL), who skated in 40 games for the Stingrays in 2013-14. To make up for the loss of Fyten and Lewington, coach Carbery added Louis Belisle from the Columbus Cottonmouths (SPHL) and Ryan Ruikka from the Wichita Thunder.

Vitek Vanecek stopped 32 of 33 as Rodrigues scored his first with the Stingrays and Joey Leach provided the deciding goal en route to a 2-1 win over the Solar Bears on Saturday.

In their third straight meeting, Mark Dekanich stopped all 22 shots and Pacan added two short-handed goals as the Stingrays coasted to a 3-0 victory on Monday night. All three games were played at the Amway Center as part of South Carolina’s 10-game road trip.

NEXT WEEK
The Stingrays now travel to Norfolk to battle with the Admirals before embarking for Wheeling to take on the Nailers in two straight. They will round off the week Sunday in Indianapolis with an afternoon tilt against the Fuel.

CURRENT STANDING
2nd in South Division, 11-6-1-1, 24 points

Max Wolpoff

Churchill High School graduate (2015) and current Boston University journalism student. Follow me on Twitter (@Max_Wolpoff) for game-day tweets or my random musings about being a college student.

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