TULSA, OK–The Tulsa Oilers returned home for their second home game of the season against th Colorado Eagles Tuesday night after a road trip that saw the Oilers make a notch in every column of the CHL standings; a win in Wichita, a loss to the Bossier Shreveport Mudbugs, and an overtime loss to the Bloomington Prairie Thunder.

The Oilers have not been very successful of late against the two-time CHL Champion Colorado Eagles, who sat at 3-1 and tied with Dayton and Bloomington for first place in the CHL’s    Turner Conference. The Oilers had a record of 2-1-1 going into tonight’s game, in a tie with the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees for third place inj the CHL’s Berry Conference.

Aft6er a sleepy first period where the Oilers went 0-3 on the power play and were out shot by the Eagles 8-6, Kevin Ulanski would score at the 5:22 mark of the 2^nd period off an assist by Riley Nelson. In that goal, it looked as if the Puck took a funny bounce off an Tulsa defender’s skate. Gary Steffes would put the Oilers on the board, tying the game at 13:10 of the period on an assist by Mike Beausoleil. The puck would take another odd bounce off of an Oilers defender’s skate blade as the Eagles would take the lead on a Scott May goal at 16:29.

With nearly 3 minutest to play Oilers captain Tyler Fleck and Eagles defenseman Chris Hau fought along the near boards and soon after that Riley Nelson would notch the game-winning goal for the Eagles at 16:58. They would add an empty-netter at 18:57 when Dayman Rycroft scored.

Colorado goalie Kyle Jones turned in a near perfect performance, stopping 18 of 19 shots. Tyler Sims stopped 21 of 25 shots for the Oilers. Both team were ineffective on the power play, the Oilers winding up 0-5 with the extra man and Colorado going 0-2.

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Photos by: Kevin Pyle

Both teams will face each other again on Friday night on Colorado’s home ice, then it’s on to Wichita for the first of a home-and-home series with the Thunder beginning on Saturday evening and concluding on Sunday afternoon in the BOK Center with an afternoon matinee at 4:05pm.

Tickets for that game and all Oilers home games are available at the BOK Center box office or by calling the Oilers office at 918-632-PUCK (7825).

 

GAME DETAILS

SCORING SHOTS   1 2 3 TOTAL Colorado 0 2 2 4 Tulsa 0 1 0 1   1 2 3 TOTAL Colorado 7 14 4 25 Tulsa 6 7 6 19

POWERPLAYS Colorado 0 for 2 : Tulsa 0 for 5

SCORING SUMMARY Period 1 (no scoring) Period 2 Colorado – Kevin Ulanski (Riley Nelson) 5:22 Tulsa – Gary Steffes (Michel Beausoleil, Marty Standish) 13:10 Colorado – Scott May (unassisted) 16:29 Period 3 Colorado – Riley Nelson (Kevin Ulanski, Jason Beatty) 16:57 Colorado – Daymen Rycroft (emptynet) (Scott May) 18:57

PENALTIES Period 1 Colorado – Braden Desmet – (Tripping), 2 min, 3:13 Colorado – Steve Haddon – (Hooking), 2 min, 9:59 Colorado – Chris Hau – (Tripping), 2 min, 11:52 Period 2 Tulsa – Derek Eastman – (Hooking), 2 min, 7:17 Tulsa – Michel Beausoleil – (Hooking), 2 min, 10:49 Period 3 Colorado – Daymen Rycroft – (Tripping), 2 min, 3:46 Colorado – Jason Beatty – (High Sticking), 2 min, 5:43 Colorado – Chris Hau – (Fighting Major), 5 min, 17:24 Tulsa – Tyler Fleck – (Fighting Major), 5 min, 17:24

Colorado  Tulsa # NAME G A PTS +/- S PIM 2 Workman, Kip 0 0 0 +2 1 0 5 Thurston, Brett 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 Hau, Chris 0 0 0 0 1 7 9 Ulanski, Kevin 1 1 2 +2 5 0 10 Haddon, Steve 0 0 0 +1 3 2 11 Glasser, Matt 0 0 0 +1 1 0 12 Nelson, Riley 1 1 2 +2 2 0 14 Rycroft, Daymen 1 0 1 +2 1 2 20 Beatty, Jason 0 1 1 +1 2 2 22 Sgroi, Mike 0 0 0 0 1 0 29 Jones, Kyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 Penner, Andrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 Desmet, Braden 0 0 0 -1 0 2 47 May, Scott 1 1 2 +2 3 0 51 Stanley, Dylan 0 0 0 0 3 0 55 Peto, Kyle 0 0 0 +3 2 0 # NAME G A PTS +/- S PIM 3 Bauman, Stacey 0 0 0 -2 0 0 5 Eastman, Derek 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 Standish, Marty 0 1 1 0 1 0 10 Mori, John 0 0 0 -1 3 0 11 Robertson, Matt 0 0 0 -1 1 0 13 Costello, Chad 0 0 0 0 1 0 14 Fleck, Tyler 0 0 0 -1 0 5 15 Erickson, Sean 0 0 0 -1 0 0 20 Cloud, Chris 0 0 0 -2 0 0 21 Combs, Jack 0 0 0 -1 1 0 22 Steffes, Gary 1 0 1 0 2 0 23 Reed, Harrison 0 0 0 -1 1 0 27 Linder, RJ 0 0 0 -1 2 0 29 Sims, Tyler 0 0 0 0 0 0 35 Cann, Trevor 0 0 0 0 0 0 55 Barker, Brennan 0 0 0 -1 2 0 64 Weeks, Jason 0 0 0 -3 3 0 90 Beausoleil, Michel 0 1 1 0 2 2   GOALIES NAME DEC MIN SHOTS SAVES 29 Kyle Jones WIN 60:00 19 18 31 Andrew Penner (b)         NAME DEC MIN SHOTS SAVES 29 Tyler Sims LOSS 59:53 24 21 35 Trevor Cann (b)

PENALTY TOTALS Colorado 15 minutes on 6 infraction(s) Tulsa 9 minutes on 3 infraction(s)