Drew Commesso made 34 saves as Rockford shut out Chicago, 5-0, to shut out their Central Division first-round collection in a two-game sweep on Friday night time.
The IceHogs advance to play division champion Milwaukee within the subsequent spherical, with Sport 1 set for Thursday, Could 1.
Joey Anderson scored simply 1:56 into the sport and Rockford by no means seemed again, including a objective from Kevin Korchinski lower than 4 minutes later to make it 2-0. Gerry Mayhew scored twice and Aku Räty completed off the collection with an empty-netter late within the third.
Commesso stopped 66 of the 67 photographs he confronted within the two video games and didn’t enable a objective over the ultimate 104:07 of the collection.
Cole Guttman and Nolan Allan added two assists every for the IceHogs.
(Rockford wins collection, 2-0)Sport 1 – Wed., Apr. 23 – Rockford 2, CHICAGO 1 (OT)Sport 2 – Fri., Apr. 25 – ROCKFORD 5, Chicago 0
