Mariners Rout Admirals In Annual School Day Game
The Maine Mariners played their third annual School Day Game Tuesday morning, and took the Norfolk Admirals to school in a 7-2 victory.
Photo Courtesy of the Maine MarinersSeven different Maine Mariners registered multi-point games, led by a pair of goals each from Jacob Hudson and Matthew Philip in front of a sellout crowd of 6,001, made up mostly of students from across the state of Maine.
The Mariners got the scoring started early when Hudson capitalized just 31 seconds into the game on a power play, throwing in a wrister on net from the left circle.
Xander Lamppa then doubled the Maine lead at 5:49 when he finished off an impressive tic-tac-toe passing play from Justin Bean and Christian Sarlo.
Midway through the period, Brooklyn Kalmikov scooped up a rebound in front of Admirals netminder Kristian Stead to make it a 3-0 game after 20 minutes.
The Admirals got back into the game with a pair of second period power play goals. First, Brandon Osmundson found a loose puck in front of Maine goalie Nolan Maier at 7:51 to get Norfolk on the board, then it was Andrew Bakanov at 9:17, to bring the deficit back to one.
Before the period ended, the Mariners got one back. Philip finished a patient play by Ayden MacDonald at 13:50. Maine led 4-2 after two.
The Mariners poured it on with three goals in the third to take full control of the game. Sebastian Vidmar tipped a Zach Massicotte shot at 4:07, making it 5-2, with Philip scoring a similar goal three minutes later for his second of the day.
A Jacob Hudson empty net goal brought the score to its 7-2 final. Nolan Maier made 34 saves on 36 Norfolk shots to earn his seventh win of the season.
The sellout crowd was the ninth of the season for the Mariners in 28 home games and second consecutive, after drawing 6,059 on Saturday night.
The Mariners (23-31-3-0) hit the road for the weekend, visiting the Adirondack Thunder in Glens Falls, NY on Friday and Saturday night. Puck drop for both nights is set for 7 PM ET.