The Steel have won two consecutive road games for the first time this season.
The Chicago Steel completed a two-game sweep in Kearney, Nebraska over the weekend with a 5-2 victory over the Tri-City Storm.
Following a 3-1 win on Friday against the Storm, Chicago has notched consecutive road victories for the first time this season. It’s also the third time they have won consecutive games.
Tobias Ohman’s career-high four-point evening and Jack Parsons’s stellar performance in goal powered the Steel to victory at Viaero Center.
The Steel got on the board first late in the opening period on a power play. Following a Storm bench minor for too many men on the ice, Ohman took the puck in the right-wing circle of the Tri-City zone. The native of Sweden fed Teddy Mutryn at the left post, who redirected the puck with his stick blade high into the cage.
It was Mutryn’s team-leading 16th goal of the season and the Steel’s second power-play tally of the series.
Chicago doubled their lead to 2-0 just under four minutes into the middle frame. After pushing the puck into Tri-City’s zone, Ohman sent a shot toward Storm goaltender Erick Roest. The Cornell commit made a beautiful chest save, but allowed Ben Yurchuk to get the rebound for his eighth goal of the season.
Chicago made the score 3-0 near the halfway point of the second period. Ohman hit the crossbar from the right-wing circle, only to have the shot ricochet off the left post.
After the officials initially nullified the goal, the call was overturned upon video review.
Chicago increased the lead to 4-0 early in the final period. Ohman was the catalyst again, feeding Will Tomko on a rink-wide pass to the right-wing circle. Tomko lifted a brilliant backhander over Roest’s right shoulder for his eighth of the season.
That’s when Tri-City tried to climb back into the game. The first goal came on a Colby Woogk shot from the right-wing boards of the Steel’s zone.
Just under five minutes later, Nolan Roed cut the Storm deficit to 4-2. After winning a faceoff backward in the right-wing circle of the Steel zone and a puck battle with multiple skaters, Roed fired a shot that snuck under Parsons’s right arm.
The Storm pulled Roest with 3:30 left in regulation, but Chicago’s Adam Valentini scored an empty-netter with 1:17 remaining for the 5-2 final.
Parsons stopped 20 of 22 shots to earn his seventh victory of the season, while Roest made 21 saves to suffer the loss, falling to 9-12-1.
Chicago outshot the Storm 26-22, marking the fourth time the club has outshot an opponent in 39 games this season.
The Steel have earned a point in three consecutive games, their longest point streak this season.