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Crazed Rats, WorSharks Chomp Falcons; Machesney With The 5-0 Shutout

The Worcester Sharks got two goals from Andrew Desjardins and a shutout by newly signed goaltender Daren Machesney to defeat the Springfield Falcons 5-0 Friday night at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts in front of a crowd of 3,253.

Because this writer made the poor choice of watching the Boston Bruins get thrashed by the Detroit Red Wings as opposed to the WorSharks contest, those interested in the particulars can check out Bill Ballou of the Worcester Telegram and Gazette for his game story and notes postings. Nate Owen of The Republican has Springfield’s side of the story.

As usual, both the WorSharks and Falcons have their points of view on their official sites.

GAME NOTES
Earlier this week San Jose completed a trade that sent forward Steven Zalewski and defenseman Jay Leach to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for forwards Michael Swift and Patrick Davis. The Worcester shuttle also made a stop in the Bay State, dropping off Benn Ferriero and John McCarthy and picking up netminder Carter Hutton. Tyson Sexsmith was summoned from Stockton to replace Alex Stalock and Daren Machesney was signed to a PTO to take Hutton’s vacated roster spot. But when it rains it pours, and once Sexsmith went down with an injury in practice the WorSharks signed another goaltender, Billy Sauer, to a PTO.

With the trade of Leach the WorSharks named Mike Moore as captain.

For the first time in team history the Worcester Sharks have posted consecutive shutouts, and have gone 132:02 without surrendering a goal. Daren Machesney’s shutout what the first ever by a WorSharks netminder in his first start for the team. Ironically enough, Machesney was Springfield’s starting goaltender for their season opener against the providence Bruins, but was pulled after giving up three goals in the first 9:04 of the game for a 19.85 goals against average. The shutout Friday night drops that number to a very respectable 2.61.

Friday night’s contest started a five game road trip for Worcester, and in a rarity for the WorSharks will involve some nights in hotel rooms. On Tuesday the WorSharks will head out to Rochester, New York for their Wednesday night tilt against the Americans, and after the game the team will head to Albany for Friday night’s contest against the Devils. Next Saturday the team returns to the MassMutual Center to once again take on the Falcons, and a Sunday afternoon game in Providence rounds out the trip.

The three stars of the game were
1. WOR – 22 Andrew Desjardins (2g)
2. WOR – 23 Dan DaSilva (g,2a)
3. WOR – 1 Daren Machesney (25 save shutout)

Machesney was also the AHL’s second star of the night

Despite not seeing the game, knowing Machesney had a shutout and wasn’t named as one of the top two stars of the contest we’ll make him the Sharkspage player of the game.

BOXSCORE
Worcester 0 4 1 – 5
Springfield 0 0 0 – 0

1st Period- No Scoring.Penalties-Irwin Wor (hooking), 5:34; Holden Spr (tripping), 13:20; Holden Spr (interference), 19:40.

2nd Period-1, Worcester, Ferriero 11 (Braun, Cheechoo), 2:51 (PP). 2, Worcester, DaSilva 11 (Sullivan), 3:22. 3, Worcester, Mashinter 10 (Wingels), 4:17. 4, Worcester, Desjardins 9 (DaSilva, Sullivan), 18:25 (PP). Penalties-Holden Spr (cross-checking), 2:04; McLaren Wor (fighting), 4:20; Tarnasky Spr (fighting), 4:20; Quirk Wor (holding the stick), 7:59; Kubalik Spr (hooking), 14:20; served by Filatov Spr (bench minor – too many men), 15:17; Sigalet Spr (cross-checking), 16:36.

3rd Period-5, Worcester, Desjardins 10 (DaSilva), 0:40. Penalties-DaSilva Wor (tripping), 9:10; Desjardins Wor (cross-checking), 9:25; Petrecki Wor (slashing), 15:30.

Shots on Goal-Worcester 6-17-7-30. Springfield 12-3-10-25.
Power Play Opportunities-Worcester 2/6; Springfield 0/5.
Goalies-Worcester, Machesney 1-0-0 (25 shots-25 saves). Springfield, Wesslau 9-11-1 (10 shots-7 saves); LeNeveu 12-12-2 (20 shots-18 saves).
A-3,253
Referees-Marcus Vinnerborg (45), Terry Koharski (10). Linesmen-Rich Patry (52), Jim Briggs (83).

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