Game Story

Parker Gahagen picked up his second win of the season with 30 saves and snapped a four game losing streak. Ruslan Khazheyev made 35 saves for the Gargoyles. Lincoln Hatten, Jordan Kaplan, and Sam Stange had the tallies for Worcester. Gleb Trikozov and Matt Quercia scored for Greensboro.

Lincoln Hatten opened up scoring at 11:52, scoring on a one-timer from MacAuley Carson through the pads of Ruslan Khazheyev. Hatten would go off for a holding call two and a half minutes later. With seven seconds left on Hatten’s penalty, Gleb Trikozov capitalized to tie the game up. Adam Samuelsson took a puck to the face that deflected off his own stick during the play. Jordan Kaplan regained the lead at 16:19 after a bad pass from Ruslan Khazheyev from behind the net set him up for an easy goal on the open net. Worcester led 2-1 through the opening twenty minutes, outshooting Greensboro 14-9.

Riley Ginnell took a hooking penalty late in the first period. 30 seconds in and on the first shot of the period, Matt Quercia tipped in a loose puck to tie the game at 2. The remainder of the period, the Railers were slow to regain their momentum after being outshot 11-1 in the opening 7:47 of the period, they would regain some ground with shot tallies totalling 15-11 Greensboro with the game tied at two, at the remainder of two periods.

Cole Donhauser fought Oskars Briedis at 1:42 in the third period. After a decent exchange of punches, Briedis pulled Donhauser down to the ice. The Railers had two power plays in the third period, one of which carried over to overtime but were unable to break the tie. Shots were 10-5 Worcester in the third period.

Greensboro had a few chances to score early in the overtime period, two shots came close to the goal line but were stopped by Gahagen and the second by Cam McDonald. Sam Stange secured the overtime win, tipping in a pass from Jordan Kaplan up front. Shots were three a piece, bringing totals to 38-32 Worcester on the night.

The three stars of the game were:

1. Sam Stange (Worcester) – game-winning goal
2. Jordan Kaplan (Worcester) – 1 goal, 1 assist
3. Lincoln Hatten (Worcester) – 1 goal

The Savannah Ghost Pirates beat the Trois-Rivieres Lions 3-2 earlier in the night for the only other North Division game played on Thursday. The Springfield Thunderbirds fell 5-2 to the Hartford Wolf Pack on Tuesday morning. It was an ugly one for Springfield with Hartford having nine power plays, and a total of 103 penalty minutes being handed out that morning. The Thunderbirds head to Providence to take on the Bruins on Friday.

Railers and Gargoyles return to action at the First Horizon Coliseum on Saturday to continue their three-game series at 7 p.m. Woo Hockey’s coverage of Railers hockey will return for Sunday’s game at 3 p.m.

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Box Score

Scoring

Team	1	2	3	OT	Total
WOR	2	0	0	1	3
GSO	1	1	0	0	2

Shots on Goal

Team	1	2	3	OT	Total
WOR	14	11	10	3	38
GSO	9	15	5	3	32

Notes

• Worcester Scratches: Michael Suda, Riley Piercey, and William Lavallière.
• Greensboro Scratches: Demetrios Koumontzis, Eric Martin, Ryan Hughes, and Tristan De Jong.
• This game was broadcast on YouTube instead of FloHockey through the FloHockey YouTube channel. Flo was impacted by an internet outage that impacted a ton of cloud services, on Thursday afternoon. Neither team posted videos for goals during the game, which I believe is done through a FloSports implementation which uses one of those cloud services.
• Both teams had players head to the locker rooms in the first period. At 1:36, Cullen Ferguson collided with Declan McDonnell and with assistance from his teammates, headed off the ice. Adam Samuelsson went down the tunnel after the puck deflected off his stick and hit his face later in the period. Samuelsson returned to the game, Ferguson did not.
• Ryan Wheeler was recalled to the Springfield Thunderbirds on Tuesday, and sent back down on Tuesday afternoon. Springfield hosted the Hartford Wolf Pack on Tuesday morning, and was sent back to Worcester following that game.
• Nikta Suseyuv was assigned back to Worcester on Tuesday from the Springfield Thunderbirds. He was a healthy scratch in his six-day recall to Springfield, so nothing to report except that.
• Following some antics during warm-ups before Sunday’s game which involved pucks going into the benches, the ECHL has fined and suspended Kolby Johnson three games for the incident. Kishaun Gervais was also fined for his actions during warm-ups.
• As of this week, this site has a facelift of sorts with a new redesign of the front page. I’ve been working on implementing more data into the site, which includes transactions and stats. So far, I’ve been able to implement everything from this season and will be working on implementing past seasons when time allows. As I slowly cross off things from my ideas list, I’ve been working on automating a lot of workflows behind the scenes, such as Box Scores that I include in my game recaps that at one point, were created manually. My hope is to grow this site throughout this season as a resource for fans, so if you have an idea shoot me a message and I’ll see how I can implement it into the site.
• Following Thursday’s game, the Railers had the following scoring streaks and droughts:
  • Cam McDonald snapped an eight game scoring drought with an assist.
  • Riley Ginnell is without a point in his last three games.
  • Stevie Moses is without a point in his last three games.
  • Cole Donhauser is without a point in his last seven games.
  • Matt DeMelis is without a point in his last three games.
  • MacAuley Carson snapped a six game scoring drought with an assist.
  • Gabe Blanchard is without a point in his last four games.

Railers Lines

Opponent Lines

On-Ice Officials

Notable X Posts as the Game Happened

Railers Lines

Greensboro Lines

FloSports announcement

Railers First period pics

https://x.com/RailersHC/status/2121078572458623422?a=TwYn5zyvOIarx-WXtVA&s=20
Railers OT pics