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Sunday, December 3, 2000

IceRays claim 5-1 win over Brahmas in first of five games

By Rick Mauch
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
FORT WORTH - The IceRays will be spending plenty of time with the Fort Worth Brahmas this week. Including last night's 5-1 victory at the Fort Worth Convention Center, Corpus Christi will face the Brahmas three times in five games.
   Goaltender Eddy Skazyk stopped 30 of 31 shots he faced and Geoff Bumstead scored two goals in a span of just under three minutes to ignite a four-goal eruption in just over 10 minutes of the second period. Bumstead would finish with a hat trick.
   "Eddie was our No. 1 guy last season before we got Jason (Carey) and any time Jason doesn't feel good or needs a break, we feel very confident with Eddy in there. We have a lot of confidence in both guys."
   Brahmas goaltender Rob Laurie had gone more than 30 minutes without giving up a goal before the IceRays' outburst and was coming off a 4-0 victory at home against Central Texas Friday.
   The loss ended a two-game winning streak for the Brahmas (7-17, 1 shootout loss). The IceRays (12-12, 1 shootout loss) have now won back-to-back games after losing four of five.
   The victory also avenged a 6-1 loss in Fort Worth on Nov. 22 and gave the IceRays a 3-2 lead in the season series. One of those victories came in a shootout, 4-3, in Corpus Christi on Nov. 7, one of 10 times a game has gone into a shootout in the all-time series between these two teams.
   It appeared as though the teams might be headed toward another shootout Saturday before Bumstead broke a scoreless deadlock at 9:29 of the second period on a goal just 17 seconds into a power play. The goal ended a streak of 17 consecutive power plays in which the Brahmas had held opponents without a goal.
   The IceRays went up 2-0 on Bumstead's second goal, a controversial score, at 12:07 of the second period. The goal came off the moorings, but the official did not wave off the score.
   Of Bumstead's 15 points entering the game, four were on goals. Also for the IceRays, Kurt Wickenheiser registered two assists and now has a team-leading 28 points on 14 goals and 14 assists.

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