MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com -MANCHESTER, NH— After a night of physical, hot-tempered hockey and 118 combined penalty minutes against the Penguins on Wednesday, the Worcester Sharks came up on the short end of a 3-2 score against the Manchester Monarchs on Friday night at the Verizon Wireless Arena. The Sharks outshot the Monarchs 45-15 in a game that featured several scrums and penalty minutes.

The Sharks and Monarchs would start the first period with fists flying as Frazer McLaren exacted revenge on Kevin Westgarth at 2:16 of the first period. McLaren was upset with Westgarth after Kevin jumped Frazer in the third period in the last meeting against the two clubs on November 1^st. Frazer’s team leading 11^th fighting major was a good one, landing several right hands.

The Monarchs would exact revenge however on the scoreboard, connecting on a power play with Riley Armstrong in the box for holding. Josh Kidd’s wrist shot from the point was deflected between the pads of Taylor Dakers by David Meckler at 10:32.

Tempers would boil again as former Monarch’s captain Brendan Buckley was whistled for 27 minutes of penalties including a game misconduct after a huge scrum that started in front of the Sharks net and ended close to the Sharks bench. Manchester would light the lamp again, this time on a shorthanded goal as Brian Boyle connected a one timer pass from Teddy Purcell past Taylor Dakers at 17:12. The Sharks ended the period with just four defenseman heading into the first intermission trailing 2-0.

Gloves would drop again to open the second period, as Brad Staubitz and Drew Bagnall would dance after brad hit Brian Boyle with a big hip check at center ice at 3:19. The Sharks would fall behind by 3-0 after Alec Martinez would finish a 3on2 rush at 15:16. The Sharks trailed 3-0 after 40 minutes outshooting the Monarchs 22-14 after two periods.

Brett Westgarth and Paul Crosty would not disappoint at 5:50 of the third period as they tangled after Crosty ran into Dakers behind the Worcester net. Worcester would finally get on the board at 12:46 as Steven Zalewski scored in his second straight game, a power play goal back hand shot off the cross bar and in assisted by Patrick Traverse and Ryan Vesce. The Sharks would pull Dakers with 2:05 remaining and score with :47 seconds remaining as Larose broke a five game goal scoring drought notching his 10^th goal of the season. But that was as far as the Sharks would get despite outshooting the Monarchs 45-15 in the game including 23-1 in the final frame.

NOTES: Three Stars: (3) Martinez (1g, 0a) (2) Quick (win, 43 saves) (1) Boyle (1g, 1a)...Attendance for the contest was 4,613... Dakers saved 12 of 15 shots for the Sharks, while Quick stopped 42 of 45 for Manchester...Worcester went 1/9 on the power play; Manchester went 1/3... The game featured four fights with the two teams combining for 92 penalty minutes.

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