Don’t adjust your monitors. Yes, those are pink uniforms and pink ice! Saturday night was the second annual Pink in the Rink game. The Monarchs Care Foundation, the charitable arm of the Monarchs, teamed up with Catholic Medical Center to raise awareness and donations to fight Breast Cancer. After the game, the pink jerseys were auctioned off.
The Northeast Division leading Connecticut Whale took the 4-1 victory behind a 26 save effort from Chad Johnson.
After a scoreless first period the Whale opened up the flood gates and poured in three goals past Martin Jones in a span of 1:31. Former UMass standout Casey Wellman got Connecticut on board first at 12:01 when he sent a wrister from the high slot past Jones glove side.
Nine seconds later, the Whale lit the lamp again as Jonathan Audy-Marchessault took a pass from Wellman at the top of the left circle and fired a one-timer past Jones.
Connecticut extended their lead to 3-0 when Wojtek Wolski skated through the crease and passed the puck back to center Kris Newbury who tipped it in for his 18th of the season.
The Monarchs cut the lead to 3-1 early in the third frame when Robbie Czarnik skated up center ice, split the Connecticut defenders and fired a shot the beat Johnson blocker side.
The Whale regained a 3 goal advantage less than a minute later when Andreas Thuresson redirected a Tim Erixon wrister past Jones.
Martin Jones (13-13-1) took his 13th loss of the season stopping 36-of-40 shots.
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