Marquette Wins First Home Game Of The Season

Hockeyville is home and home was good to the Mutineers Saturday night, as they defeated the Fox Cities Ice Dogs 8-3.

It was another strong offensive showing by the GLHL’s best offense. The Mutineers average eight goals per game and are tied for best goal differential at +11. Forward Dallas McLaughlin leads the league with seven goals and 12 points. Forward Ryan Sullivan is tied for third with five goals and leads the league in power play goals and shorthanded goals.

But it was a good play on the blue line by Dalton Carter to keep a puck in the offensive zone for Marquette that sparked the offense on Saturday. His play led to an easy Joey Enright goal for the first score of the game with 16:36 left in the opening period. Fox Cities’s Nick Laird responded quickly with a goal of his own just 1:59 later, but Doug Quayle and Mike Peterson both notched their first goals of the season to take a 3-1 lead into the first intermission.

Ice Dog Matt LaBarge and Enright exchanged goals in the second, but Marquette exploded for four goals in the third period to pull away. Sullivan scored just 11 seconds apart, scoring on a power play with help from McLaughlin and Adam Szabo and then again on the ensuing faceoff with help from Quayle. John Aho and McLaughlin both added goals late for the 8-3 final.

Mike Madosh made his debut for the Mutineers, stopping 26 of 29 shots in the win. He is the final goalie to play for Marquette after Brett Beaudry and Brandon Knopp played in Eagle River last weekend. Drew Cheney stopped 32 of 40 in the loss for the Ice Dogs.

Former Marquette native Andy Sims started for Fox Cities. He scored the lone Ice Dogs goal in the third period.

The Mutineers head to Wisconsin again next Friday and Saturday to play the Mosinee Papermakers in a two-game series. This will be the season opener for the Papermakers.