The South Carolina Stingrays’ offseason signing of Trevor Gillies put the league on notice: don’t mess with him. After sitting out the enitre season thus far on injured reserve, Gilles took the ice at the North Charleston Coliseum for the first time for last weekend’s games against the Florida Everblades. The Hershey Bears also returned Austin Fyten to the Lowcountry for the weekend series.
Matt Marquardt’s goal in the first period looked like the game winner for almost 40 minutes of gam time. Mark Dekanich and Anthony Peters kept the Everblades and Stingrays deadlocked at 1-0 despite trading power play chances through the second period.