WHO: Florida Everblades (2nd South) vs Orlando Solar Bears (4th South)
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ESTERO, Fla. – The Florida Everblades took a 1-0 series lead over the Orlando Solar Bears last night and now look for another win in Game Two of the South Division Finals on Saturay, May 3rd at 7:00 p.m. at Hertz Arena.
The Everblades scored the first five goals of the game from five different goal scorers en route to a 5-3 victory in Game One. Colton Hargrove is now on a three-game goal streak, while Cole Moberg, Jordan Sambrook, Carson Gicewicz, and Kyle Betts each had a multi-point game. Florida’s head coach Brad Ralph grabbed his 100th playoff win in his ECHL career with the victory last night.
Orlando scored all three of their goals in the third period, with two coming from the blue line. In goal, Jon Gillies got chased from the crease at 15:13 of the second period after allowing four goals on 18 shots against. Ryan Fanti in relief stopped eight of nine.
Florida went 2/7 on the power play and 2/2 on the penalty kill last night. Cam Johnson is one win away from tying Riley Gill for the most playoff goaltending wins all time in ECHL history after yesterday’s match.
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