Autism Awareness Night Recap

By Jeff Barrett

The final home games of the season have arrived in Watertown, with the Wolves hosting two division rivals to close the home schedule. On this Friday night, the Wolves and Danbury Hat Tricks battled for the final time this year. The teams have met sixteen times previously, with the Hat Tricks taking ten wins from the Wolves.
Grady Friedman put the Hat Tricks up 1-0 early in the first, netting a goal at the 3:11 mark, assisted by Eli Rivers and Chance Adrian.
Marquis Grant-Mentis knotted the game at 1 each on a nasty wrist shot at the 11:24 mark, with the assist belonging to Matthew Gilbert.
Watertown would break the tie at 19:22 of the period on a power play goal from Hunter Hall, assisted by Grant-Mentis and Matt Gordon.
Watertown outshot Danbury 132-6 in the frame, and held the 2-1 lead at the break.
Roger Powers extended Watertown's lead to 3-1 at the 1:57 mark of the second, assisted by Darion Benchich and Quinn Chevers.
The Hat Tricks Anton Rubtsov cut into the Wolves lead at 9:07 of the second, assisted by Chance Adrian, making the score 3-2.
At the 10:03 mark, Brad Reitter put Watertown back up 4-2 with Ian McDonald getting the assist.
The Hat Tricks got back within one at 11:40 on an Eli Rivers goal, assisted by Kadyn Fennell and Grady Friedman.
The second period found Danbury outshooting Watertown 13-8 in the period, but Watertown held the 4-3 lead after forty minutes of play.
Konstantin Chernyuk netted two power play goals in the third to put Danbury back in front. First it was at the 11:04 mark, assisted byRubtsov and Kaiden Kanderka, making it 4-4. Chernyuk struck again at 14:46 for an unassisted goal to put Danbury in front 5-4.
At 16:13 Milan Breczko added a shorthanded goal to make the score 6-4 in favor of Danbury.
Dustin Henning would get one back for Watertown at 17:51 of the third, assisted by Grant-Mentis and Brad Reitter making it 6-5. Before Anton Rubstsov added an empty net goal to send Danbury to a 7-5 win.
Watertown is back home on Saturday night for the final home game, as they once again host the Binghamton Black Bears in a 7:30 matchup.