By james art 
November 3, 2024 – ECHL (ECHL)
Idaho Steelheads News Release
STATELINE, NV – The Idaho Steelheads (4-3-0-0, 8pts) fell to the Tahoe Knight Monsters (3-0-1-0, 7pts) Saturday night by a final score of 4-2 in front of 3,300 fans at the Tahoe Blue Event Center. Idaho will hit the road for a three-in-three weekend next week against the Savannah Ghost Pirates beginning Friday at 5:30pm (MT).
Idaho trailed 1-0 when Troy Loggins scored on the power play at 8:26. Ty Pelton-Byce (6th) provided the tying goal at 13:48 on a feed from Hank Crone. Pelton-Bice carried the puck into the offensive zone down the left wing and chipped it to Crown in the right circle. From there, Crone sent a backhander toward the net that came off a Knight Monsters skate, where Pelton-Byce collected it in the right circle, sending a wrister into the bottom far corner. The shots were 11-8 Tahoe.
Sloan Stanick put the Knight Monsters back on top with a man score 2:14 into the second period to give them a 2-1 lead. Jett Jones extended the lead to 3-1 with 5:20 left in the frame on a shorthanded goal. With 37 seconds left in the period, CJ Walker (1st) pulled the Steelheads back within one. Connor MacEachern from under the left circle fed Walker to the top of the crease where he pushed the puck into the net. Shots favored Tahoe 19-11 in the stanza.
The Steelheads outscored the Knight Monsters 16-7 in the third period and pulled Bryan Thomson with 2:12 left. In the last second, Bear Hughes scored on an empty net to give Tahoe a 4-2 win.
Bryan Thomson made 33 saves on 36 shots in the loss, while Jesper Vikman made 33 saves on 35 shots in the loss.
ICCU Three stars
1) Jesper Wickman (TAH)
2) Sloan Stanick (TAH)
3) Troy Loggins (TAH)
GAME NOTES
Idaho went 0-for-2 on the power play while Tahoe was 2-for-5.
Tahoe beat Idaho 37-35.
Reece Harsch (IR), Sam Sternschein (IR) and Mark Olver (DNP) did not dress for Idaho.
Hank Crone extended his point streak to seven games with an assist, while AJ White has a helper in back-to-back contests.
CJ Walker scored his first goal as a Steelhead, leading all skaters with eight shots.
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