Sea Wolves Battle Back, But Lose in Shootout 4-3

The Mississippi Sea Wolves hosted the Baton Rouge Zydeco on their home open for the 2024-2025 season on 10/26/24. The Zydeco got on the board early on a Power Play goal after a double minor by Matt Stoia for unsportsmanlike conduct. The goal was scored at 7:36 into the first by #13 Shane Haggerty and assisted by #9 Gehrig Lindberg and #23 Jackson Bond. 

The second period saw more action with a combined 32 shots, however, only one goal was created off of those aforementioned shots. That goal belongs to #10 Dmitri Kuznetsov at 14:50, who returned to Mississippi for his first game since he has been traded. The assists from the game belonged to #71 Narek Aleksanyan and #4 Roy Namiki. 

The tides seemed to have changed as we entered the third period. After a holding call that soon turned into a double minor after a unsportsmanlike conduct was called on #96 Tyler Larwood, #25 Dalton Anderson capitalized on it with a goal at 8:27. Assist was by #96 Keller Blake. The Baton Rouge Zydeco would attack a while later at 11:13 after they killed off a penalty called on #96 Tyler Larwood, who would also coincidentally score the goal with assist by #71 Narek Aleksanayan. The Sea Wolves would lead a late attack after pulling the goalie with two goals. First goal coming at 18:36 by #23 Don Carter Jr. with #10 Phillip Wong grabbing the assist. The second goal coming at 19:26 when #86 Chuck Costello got a shot from the blue line to tie the game and #96 Blake Keller grabbing the assist. 

After a scoreless overtime ended it would go to overtime with neither #25 Dalton Anderson, #26 Brendan Hussey, or #23 Don Carter Jr able to get a goal. However, one of two of the Baton Rouge shooters would find the net. #10 Dmitri Kuznetsov able to find the back while #34 Jake Cox not able to. However, the Zydeco would end up winning the shootout 1-0. 

The goalies were hot tonight for both teams. #1 Colgan Brendan had 37 shots against and had only 3 goals against with 34 saves. His save percentage was .919 while being perfect during the shootout. On the other side of the ice, #35 Gregory Hussey had 32 shots against while saving 29 of them and having only 3 goals against. His save percentage was .906 and went 1/2 for the shootout. 

The Mississippi Sea Wolves will finally face an opponent other than the Zydeco as they go to Columbus to start a long road trip on Friday November 1st. They won’t return home until Saturday November 16th went they face off against the Zydeco again.