The Pensacola Ice Flyers won their opening home game of the young season as they dropped the Louisiana IceGators 5-4, Friday night at the Hanger. Defenseman Kevin Floris opened the scoring for Pensacola with assist from Taylor Hustead and Lorne Misita. The Ice Flyers took a 2-0 lead in the first period when forward Anthony Monte chipped in the puck past Louisiana goalie AJ Bucchino. Joe DeBello was credited with an assist on the goal.

IceGators forward, Frank Littlejohn, got Louisiana on the board with a short handed goal at the 9:56 mark of the second period, but the Ice Flyers closed out the second period scoring with an unassisted goal by Kevin Galan.

The second period ended with Louisiana head coach Brent Sapergia throwing a temper tantrum at the officials. Sapergia tossed everything he could find on the ice, including a full Gatorade bucket of water, hockey sticks and rolls of tape. Sapergia was ejected from the game as boos cascaded down from the 4000 plus Pensacola fans in attendance. Sapergia will without a doubt face a lengthy suspension for the bench tirade as the game was held up for a good 5 minutes as the ice was cleaned up.

Pensacola seemed to rest on their laurels in the third period and allowed the IceGators to play mostly around the Pensacola net. Littlejohn, Justin StLouis and Danny Smith all scored for Louisiana in the period and suddenly it was a 5-4 game with 6:35 left in regulation. Pensacola managed to hold off several late scoring chances with a few key saves by Pensacola goalie Chad Collins to preserve a 5-4 win. The win moves the Ice