Indians go 1 and 2 on the road in Detroit
Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 11:02AM Friday night pitted the Indians up against Belle Tire at Taylor in the first of three league games on the Weekend. Belle Tire opened the scoring 5 minutes in the first period on a powerplay to take the early lead and held it until the 8 second mark of the period when Brayden Grange scored, from Gabe Fisher and Luke Jimenez to even the score at the end of the first period. In the second period Belle Tire opened up a two goal lead heading into the third period and early in the third Grange capitalized for his second goal of the game on a power play from Fisher and Owen Hendrikson to get the Indians back within 1 goal. From that point on they Indians pressed hard for the tying goal however the game end with the 3-2 score. Cam Labadie played excellent between the pipes in a losing effort.
On Saturday the Indians traveled to Plymouth to take on Compuware in the first of two games. Compuware opened the scoring late in first for the lead, however the Indians answered back in the second when Brayden Grange scored on a power play from Gabe Fisher. Late in the second period Compuware regained the lead, but two minutes later Drew Dellies hit Zach Sweitzer with a breakaway pass that he buried to even things up at 2. With 1:51 remaining Gabe Fisher threaded a shot the point past their netminder to put the Indians up 1. Cam Labadie turned away all the remaining shots to preserve the 3-2 win.
Sundays rematch turned out to be a low scoring game as Compuware again scored the first goal before Brayden Grange scored his 4th goal of the weekend to even the score. Both teams traded scoring opportunities throughout the second period and third until with 1:03 remaining Compuware for the net and took the 2-1 win. Cam Labadie had the duties in net for the Indians.
The next action for the Indians will be at home this coming weekend when they will take on the number nationally ranked Little Caesars team Saturday 430pm at the Pullar Staduim and a rematch Sunday morning 10am at the Taffy Abel Arena.