The Titans fell to the visiting Danbury Jr. Hat Tricks this afternoon 5 – 2. It was the Red Buckets fifth consecutive loss and ninth out of their last twelve games after starting the season 6 – 0.
Danbury’s Dylan Walker opened the scoring at 9:16 of the first period to give the Jr. Hat Tricks a 1 – 0 lead. Six minutes later Nikita Kovalev scored his eleventh goal of the season to double the Tricks lead.
Ivan Kovalev gave the Tricks a 3 – 0 just 2:52 into the middle stanza. Nikita Kovalev scored his second goal of the game with 2:33 remaining in the period to make it 4 – 0. Seth Beagle scored with fifty-eight seconds remaining in the second period to make it a 5 – 0 game.
The Titans finally scored at 4:04 into the final period on Jesse Dickinson’s first goal the season. It was the Red Buckets first goal in over 160 minutes of playing time.
Alex Blaszak scored with 4:28 left in the game to make it 5 – 2 and close out the scoring.
Colin Freitas stopped 43 of 48 shots in defeat while Gennaro Demiao turned aside 21 of 23. Click here for the box score.
The Titans are home again tomorrow at 12:30PM against the Norwich Sea Captains.