Rockford has the division champs on the ropes.
Joey Anderson’s pure hat trick was a part of a four-point night time 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 night time and a 2-0 benefit of their best-of-five Central Division semifinal sequence.
The scene shifts throughout the state line to Rockford for Recreation 3 on Wednesday and, if essential, Recreation 4 on Friday.
Anderson scored the primary three objectives 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 cross from behind the online within the closing 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 Recreation 1.
Savoie, Seney and Aidan Thompson tacked on insurance coverage markers, whereas Commesso held his postseason save proportion regular at .969 together 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 pictures within the loss.
(Rockford leads sequence, 2-0)Recreation 1 – Thu., Could 1 – Rockford 3, MILWAUKEE 2 (OT)Recreation 2 – Sat., Could 3 – Rockford 6, MILWAUKEE 1Game 3 – Wed., Could 7 – Milwaukee at Rockford, 8:00*Recreation 4 – Fri., Could 9 – Milwaukee at Rockford, 8:00*Recreation 5 – Solar., Could 11 – Rockford at Milwaukee, 5:00*if essential… All occasions Japanese
