New Jersey defeats Brooklyn 7-3 in Brooklyn

The New Jersey Outlaws defeated the Brooklyn Aviators by the score of 7-3 on Friday night. The Outlaws are getting closer and closer to clinching a playoff spot. They continue tu keep their hold on being the number one team in the Federal Hockey League. The Outlaws took a 4-1 lead after the first period. They scored one goal in the second and led 5-1 after two. Each team scored a couple of goals in the third and the Outlaws held on to win the game.

In the first period Nathan Oke scored on the powerplay, assisted by Travis Kauffeldt and Lawne Snyder. The goal came at the 2:06 mark of the first period. Trevor Karasiewicz scored at the 2:54 mark of the first period. He was assisted by Matthew Puntureri and Gentry Zollars. Kevin Cooper scored on the powerplay to make it 3-1 Outlaws at the 9:02 mark of the period. Oke and Snyder assited on the goal. The fourth goal was scored by John Goffredo who was assisted by Jason Reese and Luke Flicek at 16:16 of the first period. Lucas Schott scored to make it a 4-1 game at the 17:31 mark of the period.

Matt Miller scored the only goal of the second period at the 18:10 mark of the second period. Snyder and Karasiewicz got the assists. In the third period Chase Watson and Nick Petriello scored to make it a 5-3 game. The goals were scored at the 29 and 49 second marks of the third period. Matthew Puntureri scored on the powerplay at the 2:15 mark of the period and was assisted by Cooper and Zollars. Oke scored unassisted at the 14:44 mark of the third period.

New Jersey had the advantage in shots with 33-24. New Jersey was 3-8 on the powerplay and Brooklyn was 1-5. Adam Dekker got the win in-goal for New Jersey. Josselin St. Pierre took the loss for the Aviators. The game lasted three hours and 32 minutes. It was witnessed by 702 people who were in attendance. The three stars of the game were third star Karasiewicz, second star Snyder and the first star Oke. The two teams will meet once again Saturday night in Wayne. The Outlaws have won all seven meetings by the two teams this year.