Langley Rivermen got a split this past weekend, defeating the Nanaimo Clippers at home on Friday 5-3, and dropping a 7-2 decision on Sunday at the South Surrey Arena to the Eagles.
Langley’s three game homestand concluded Friday night, Novc. 22, at home against the Nanaimo Clippers, their third meeting of the season.
Luke Pfoh scored Langley’s first goal at 5:39 on an attacking zone faceoff win by Ilya Rogovksy. Pfoh placed his shot perfectly into the Nanaimo net for his fourth of the season, in his first game since October 25th.
Rogovsky would then score two goals in a minute and 30 seconds, making it 3-0 Rivermen with 11:29 gone in the first period.The 2004 born Russian forward has been exceptional the past three games, collecting three goals and two assists in that time frame
Ryan Schelling would get a great breakout pass from Carsten Kayter shorthanded and rip the puck past Clippers goaltender Chazz Nixon to make it 4-0 Langley at 14:18 of the first period. That was Schelling’s 14th goal of the season, and Langley’s fourth shorthanded goal of the season.
Langley would fire 14 shots on goal in the second period but all were stymied by Nixon, and it would remain 4-0 Langley going into the third period.
Joel Plante would cut the Rivermen lead to three, coming 6 minutes into the third, and Nanaimo would add another 8 minutes later on a redirected shot from the blueline, but Bodee Weiss would shut the door on any further Clippers attempts to ensure his team would skate to victory.
Dalton MacGillivray scored his fourth of the season into the empty net, handing Langley a 5-2 win and their second win in the last three games.
Sunday, Nov. 24, was a trip to the South Surrey Arena for the third time this season, and the Rivermen got the scoring going early. 4:36 in Adyn Merrick fired a one timer into the Eagles net on a great pass from behind the Surrey net by Dalton MacGillivray.
Langley doubled their lead 35 seconds later, on another one timer as Ilya Rogovsky fed Luke Pfoh in front of the Eagles net and Pfoh scored his second in as many games for his fifth of the season.
Surrey would take over in the remaining bit of the first period, scoring four unanswered goals in four minutes and 49 seconds to take a 4-2 lead to the first intermission.
Eagles would score 3:09 into the second period, also adding another with just over a minute to go in the middle frame to lead 6-2 going into the third period.
Cam Caron would score his second of the game in the third period to make it 7-2 Surrey. Langley fired 9 shots on net in the final frame but they were all turned aside by Eagles goaltender Aidan Fischer who was making his Surrey debut.
The Rivermen return home this week to take on the Penticton Vees on Thursday, and the Prince George Spruce Kings on Saturday.
Thursday’s game against Penticton is Throwback Thursday, with all tickets costing $5.
Saturday against Prince George is the Rivermen’s annual Hockey Fights Cancer night.
Puck drops at 7:15 p.m. both games.
