Down 3-0 with a minute to go, the Hartford Wolf Pack staged an most improbable comeback, rallying for a 4-3 shootout victory on Saturday night in Shelton, Conn. With goaltender Jason LaBarbera pulled for an extra attacker, Jozef Balej scored off a pass by Dominic Moore at 19:05. Moore then scored off a rebound with 28 seconds left, and capped the comeback off a scramble with 2.6 seconds remaining. After a scoreless overtime, Chad Wiseman‘s goal in the seventh shootout round sealed the win for Hartford. The Wolf Pack finished the preseason at 3-0-0-0, while the Sound Tigers fell to 3-0-0-1. In other preseason action on Saturday:
Ben Guite had two goals and an assist, including the winner with 1:00 remaining, as Providence (1-2-0-0) downed Springfield (0-2-1-0), 4-3… Cody McCormick scored with 2:02 left in regulation to give Hershey (2-1-0-0) a 1-0 win over Norfolk (1-1-0-0)… Jason Spezza‘s second goal of the game gave Binghamton (3-2-0-0) a 3-2 overtime win over Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (3-1-1-0)… Tim Conboy scored with 32 second left in regulation to give Cleveland (2-0-0-0) a 3-2 win over Cincinnati (0-2-0-0)… Michael Ryan scored two of Rochester’s five power play goals as the Amerks (4-0-0-0) beat St. John’s (0-3-0-0), 5-1… Justin Morrison scored twice to help Manitoba (2-0-0-0) to a 4-2 win over Hamilton (1-4-0-0)… Kamil Kreps tied the score with 28.3 seconds left in regulation and won it 1:23 into overtime as San Antonio (2-2-0-0) beat Houston (2-1-1-0), 5-4… Erik Westrum ended the longest shootout of the preseason in the eighth round, giving Utah (2-0-0-0) a 2-1 win over Edmonton (0-1-0-1)… Colin Hemingway and Mike Glumac scored in the first period for Worcester, but unsafe ice conditions forced the cancellation of the remainder of the IceCats’ game vs. Albany… Manchester’s game against Lowell was canceled because of a broken pane of glass at the rink in Salem, N.H.
