| 22 November 2011
The Providence Bruins took away a point this weekend but could not find the win column in any of their three games as they fell below .500.
Friday night the squad got rocked by the Springfield Falcons in a 7-2 defeat at the Dunkin Donuts Center. The Falcons controlled the shots in the first period as they outshot the home team 15 to 7 and they subsequently controlled the offense with three goals in that period alone. Providence threw a lot of pucks on net in the middle stanza where they got the edge in shots 21-9. After the score was upped to 4-0, the Bruins got on the board at 16:14 with a goal from Carter Camper for his 5th of the season. The goal did not swing the momentum too much as Springfield scored just over a minute into the final period and Michael Hutchinson (6 saves) took over for Anton Khudobin (23 saves). Jamie Tardif scored on the power play but it was not enough to spur a comeback. The penalty kill was very shaky that night as the Bruins allowed the Falcons to be a perfect 4-for-4.
Josh Hennessy had a multi point night Saturday when the Bruins fell 3-2 to the Portland Pirates. Portland scored first but Tardif scored another power play goal to even out the score as the first period came to a close. David Warsofsky and Hennessy had the helpers. The Pirates netted a pair of goals in the middle frame to gain the lead. Hennessy provided the only goal in the third period to pull Providence within a goal but they still came up short. Khudobin made 26 saves and suffered the loss.
Extra hockey was needed in Sunday afternoon’s match up against the Connecticut Whale where the Bruins fell 3-2 in a shoot out. Like he had all weekend, Tardif came up big on the power play. He scored an early power play goal in the first period and another early power play goal in the second period. Assists on both goals went to Warsofsky and Camper. The Bruins got a little too comfortable with their 2-goal lead and let it slip away in the final 20 minutes of play to allow the Whale to tie the game. Neither team scored in overtime and it went to a shootout. Jamie Arniel was the only one to score for Providence in a six round shootout and Khudobin turned away four shooters but the Whale came out on top Khudobin made 33 saves in the loss.
Providence hosts no games at the Dunk next weekend but they hit the road against the Hershey Bears on Wednesday and the Norfolk Admirals back-to-back Friday and Saturday.
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