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Recap: Pendenza, Monsters Spoil Moose Home Opener

Attendance: 7,582

Mitchell-Broadhurst-Hodgson

Nutivaara-Kukan

Thiessen

Sgarbossa-Spacek-Lemieux

Stoykewych-Schilling

Hutchinson

The first goal of the game didn't come until there were three minutes and 20 seconds left in the first period. Julian Melchiori launched a rocket through traffic to put the Moose on the board first.

Calvin Thurkauf tied things up for the Monsters two minutes into the second period. Joe Pendenza bounced the puck off of Michael Hutchinson's pad. Thurkauf scooped up the rebound and banged it past Hutchinson for the goal.

Patience paid off for Carter Camper in the second period.