| 09 October 2011
The Providence Bruins closed out their opening weekend with a 4-1 loss to the Worcester Sharks Sunday afternoon at the Dunkin Donuts Center. Lane MacDermid scored the only goal for Providence and earned third star of the game.
Worcester opened the scoring at 14:35 of the first when Curt Gogel got a puck past Anton Khudobin. Providence only recorded four shots the entire opening stanza and could not take advantage of a power play opportunity.
Just over four minutes into the middle period Sean Sullivan extended the Sharks' lead to 2-0. MacDermid dropped the gloves with Jimmy Bonneau right off the faceoff at center ice at 6:36 of the period. A KO of Bonneau could have inspired the Bruins but Marc Cantin got called for high-sticking and then the next two penalties were also to the home team. Brandon Mashinter took advantage of the flurry of power play team for Worcester and put Providence in the hole 3-0 with a powerplay goal at 15:37.
Providence broke the shut out at 18:54 when MacDermid buried his own rebound to make the score 3-1. Colby Cohen got the assist.
Benn Ferriero scored just 1:31 into the third period to put Worcester up by three goals from which Providence could not recover.
If anything good came from the final 20 minutes of play, it was Tyler Randell's fight. Randell dropped Gogel for what would be his first professional fight.
The Bruins went 0-for-3 on the powerplay but did kill off five of six penalties.
Khudobin made 27 saves and suffered the loss while Tyson Sexsmith got the win for the Sharks with 19 saves.
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