The Portland Pirates are heating up again. The Florida Panthers AHL affiliate routed the visiting Springfield Falcons 5-1 for its third win in the last four games.
Rocco Grimaldi opened the scoring, from Rob Schremp and Garrett Wilson, with his second of the season at 4:51 of the first period.
Springfield countered with a power-play goal from Alex Grant at the 9:46 mark. Grant's tally was set up by Jon DiSalvatore and Craig Cunningham and came with Jonathan Racine in the sin bin for holding.