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HUNTSVILLE, AL -- You take a couple of fights, acrobatic saves, some hard checking, 4,907 screaming fans, throw in a coach's ejection and, to top it off, a winning goal scored in the final seconds.
What you have are the ingredients for the Huntsville Havoc's 4-3 win tonight over Louisiana. The win lifted the Havoc to 21-4-5 while the Ice Gators fall to 10-20-1 in the Southern Professional Hockey League.
But, the Ice Gators came close to pulling off the win as they rallied from a 3-0 deficit to tie the game in the third period.
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By Budd McLaughlin
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"You've got to give them credit, " said Havoc head coach Randy Murphy. "They battled hard and came back to make it a game.
"But we didn't let up and got a big goal at the end."
That big goal came off a faceoff to the left of Louisiana goaltender Jimmy Spratt with just 29 seconds left in the game.
"The plan was for Carts (Mike Carter) to get a one-timer off the draw," said Havoc forward Justin Rohr. "But that didn't work out and I just snuck a backhand past the goalie. I think it kind of surprised him."
Rohr and Carter combined for the first goal of the night near the midway point of the first period when Rohr stole the puck at the Louisiana blue line and sent a cross-ice pass to Carter for the goal. Jeff White's slap shot on a power play with just one second left in the period gave the Havoc a 2-0 lead.
There were some off-ice fireworks at intermission when Louisiana coach Dave MacIsaac was ejected for "abuse of the official."
Then, just 1:28 into the second period, Adam Lukacovic put the puck over Spratt for a 3-0 lead.
But, by the end of the period, the Ice Gators regrouped and cut the lead to 3-2 on goals by Josh Bonar and Trevor Karasiewicz. With 25 gone in the third, Louisiana's AJ Tucker scored to tie the game.
"We weren't worried," said Havoc goalie Mark Sibbald, who finished the night with 26 saves. "They had a couple of fluke goals and we were playing hard.
"It's two points (in the standings) at the end of the night."
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