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Two straight games, two straight wins, two straight shutouts. The Richmond Sockeyes have gotten off to a flying start with two shutouts, this time they beat the newly relocated North Van Wolf Pack by a 10-0 score.
Richmond's goaltender Jonah Imoo is perfect so far his season, stopping all shots he has faced through two games. The Wolf Pack had a good chance to break that with a penalty shot early in the first period after Turner Popoff hauled down Brodyn Nielson. On the penalty shot Nielson was out-positioned by Imoo and shot wide.
That was the turning as the Sockeyes kicked it up a notch after that, scoring two goals in the period. Carter Popoff has a beautiful goal as he used Kilistoff to distract Wolf Pack goalie Jordan Liem and wired a shot top shelf and under the bar.
Richmond would score three more goals in the seond period to chase Jordan Liem out of the net. He was replaced by Johann Pederson but he didn't fair much better. The first shot on him went in, and then another just two shots later as the Sockeyes took a 7-0 lead into the third period.
In the final twenty minutes the Sockeyes scored three more to win by a 10-0 score including the final goal as Jeremy Hamaguchi scored with 2.7 seconds left in the game to add insult to injury.
This game also marked a couple milestones including Troy Kaczynski's first PIJHL and it was a beauty. Kaczynski walked across the blue line and ripped a shot past Jordan Liem. Patrick Hunter had the other milestone, scoring his 50th goal of his PIJHL career.
Up next for Richmond is a game against the Ridge Meadow Flames at Planet Ice, followed by a Sunday visit to Mission. Their next home game is next Thursday against the North Delta Devils. Tune in to SockeyesTV at www.richmondsockeyes.com gametime is 7:30, pregame at 7:15.
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