Lake Placid, NY – After a long night of drinking and shenanigans, the opening game for the tournament could have gone very well or terribly for the Hammers. After a slow start though, the boys in red started hunting down pucks, threaded passes and slowly picked apart the defense and goaltending of the Westmount Nordiques. When the final buzzer sounded, the Hammers were victorious by a score of 5-1.
It’s should be known that they didn’t play their best and were quite sloppy, but still managed to up their record to 1-0 in the Sarajevo division of 2009 Can/Am Classic.
Mike Gresko, Ric Novak (2) and Johnny Dagostino did all the goal scoring, while Jeremy Lemoine and Paul Carpenter chipped in with three assists apiece.
As always, Hammers netminder Charlie Kunkel was stellar between the piped with a 15 save effort.
The Auburn Hammers will look to go up 2-0 in the tournament when they take on the Syracuse Rangers tonight at 5:00 pm. A win will put them in a great position to play for the gold medal on Sunday morning at 8:00 am in the Herb Brooks 1980 Arena.
To view the box score of the game click here.
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