Wednesday marked the opening game of the Kelly Cup Playoffs for the Adirondack Thunder and according to the Thunder website, it didn't take them long to light the lamp against the Manchester Monarchs.
ECHL Rookie of the Year runner-up and last week's ECHL Player of the Week Michael Kirkpatrick opened the scoring on a nice feed from Greg Wolfe just 43 seconds into the game. It was 1-0 for the good guys.
Then late in the 2nd period Wolfe got his second point of the game after taking a pass from Captain Peter MacArthur across the crease and one-timing it home for a 2-0 lead.