The Fort Erie Falcons have been searching for success on the power play for almost the entire season and Wednesday night they finally found it.
The Sudbury Miners were in town for their first and only visit of the season, and gifted the home squad with 11 opportunities to put their power play on the ice.
While some of the calls were questionable, Fort Erie were able to take advantage of the opportunities to score four power play goals on the night, in a 5-1 victory over the visitors from the Nickel City.
Blake Wheeler and Nazem Kadri both had a pair of power play goals in the victory, while Jared Spurgeon added an unassisted goal in the 60 shot onslaught.
Following the game, Wheeler was particularly happy with his team's success with the man advantage.
"The guys played great. We tried a few new things. Perls (Brendan Perlini) made his season debut for us and really helped out our spacing on the power play. He was good. We played hard and I'm glad we got the two points tonight," said Wheeler.
Fort Erie General Manager Matt Young was also very pleased following the win.
"We finally found out power play. That's a really good group in Sudbury on the PK, but we managed to pull it off. They seemed a bit sluggish to start. I think perhaps they spent too much time at Happy Jack's buffet when they got into town last night. Too much MSG can really screw up your game, you know" quipped Young.
Next up for the Falcons is a game on Thursday night against the Sanibel Islanders. The Islanders are on the outside of the playoffs right now after leading the Canosa Conference less than a month ago.
The Falcons know they'll be facing a hungry team on Thursday night.
"We've got to be ready to go on Thursday. Tonight's win was big but we know tomorrow night Sanibel are going to be hungry for points. It's a good team and we had better be ready" added Wheeler.
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