Tropical Storms depress Baby Bruins

Just days after the parent clubs squared off, the Carolina and Boston junior squads set to duel, this time in Providence.

The result would be pretty much the same, as the Durham Tropical Storms - that's right, they are not quite Hurricanes yet - got the victory, 5-1.

This game was all Durham, with the team outshooting the Baby Bruins 33-29. The first period alone saw Dion Phaneuf, Nigel Dawes, and Ryan Getzalf all score in an eight minute period, including a power play goal for Getzalf following Milan Jurcina's stupidity hooking call.

In the second period, the Hurricanes did everything notable - Andrew Peters was called for roughing, Sergei Mozyakin scored the only goal of the period, his seventeenth, to put the Tropical Storms up 4-0, and then Peters earned a second penalty for highsticking. Despite the two power play opportunities, Providence attempted only seven shots on goal.

By the final frame, the Bruins just wanted to go home. With the man advantage following Dion Phaneuf's elbowing minor at 04:20, the Bruins defense quickly gave up a shorthanded goal four seconds later, as Tomas Mojzis left Jordan Sigalet dumbfounded. While Tuuka Makela scored on the powerplay a minute later, the damage was done to the Rhode Island Center, as the Baby Bruins had fallen once again. Jordan Sigalet was hung with the loss, and hung in effigy outside the arena after allowing five goals on twenty-six shots to fall to 17-34-2.

The team waited for rioting to settle before leaving for Nashville for its next game.