Lorenskog’s hot streak downs Oilers
In Norway's top game Lorenskog could keep its winning streak alive and beat the leading Stavanger Oilers 6-3. With one game in hand they can get close to the Oilers in the standings as well.
With a winning streak of 8 games
Lorenskog IK entered the top game at home against Stavanger and they
were determined not to have it snapped by the same team that could
defeat them last. On 10th of october Stavanger came out
victorious from the tilt with LIK and defeated them 6-2. Since then
Lorenskog only gave up one point in a shootout win in Manglerud.
Nathan Longpre opened the scoring
tonight for Lorenskog after 12 minutes, but it was not yet the time
to run away as the Oilers could strike back four and a half minutes later
through Rudolfs Balcers. The second period even started quite
promising for the leading Oilers. 6 minutes in, Philippe Cornet
scored the go ahead goal for Stavanger. It marked the last time
during the night in which Stavanger was anywhere close to a win.
In the next 8 minutes Lorenskog scored
four goals through Alexander Larsson, Robin Sterner, Jonas Djupvik
Lovlie and Steffen Thoresen. This meltdown was too much to come back
from for Stavanger, although the league's scoring leader Josh Soares
added a powerplay goal late into the last period for the 3-5. But
Tony Romano's empty net goal set the game to a final 6-3 in
Lorenskog's favour and kept Romano tied with Soares in scoring.
In the standings LIK is now in reach
with only 2 points difference left to the top. They will look to get
even closer on sunday, when Lorenskog hosts last placed Kongsvinger
Knights, who could only win twice this season, while Stavanger has to
travel to Frisk Asker, the team in 4th position.