Long Beach Ice Dogs Hockey Team

John Lilley scored two goals and Martin Woods, Tomas Kapusta and Kelly Askew also scored goals for the Ice Dogs Saturday night in a 5-2 victory over the Fresno Falcons at Long Beach Arena. Woods scored on a power play at 10:39 of the second period to put the Ice Dogs ahead to stay. Askew, who assisted on Woods' goal, had his fifth multiple-point game of the season.

Goaltender Danielle Dube became the third woman to start a professional hockey game Wednesday night in the Ice Dogs' 4-1 loss to San Diego before 1,633 at Long Beach Arena. Dube had 18 saves. Sylvai Deschatelets was alone in front of the net when he scored on a backhand shot over Dube's glove 14:01 into the first period. Clayton Read scored on a breakaway 1:41 into the second period after stealing a pass.

Nick Andersson scored unassisted in the second period to help the Chicago Wolves defeat the Ice Dogs, 5-3, Sunday and stop Long Beach's six-game road winning streak. Chicago's Steve Larouche tied the score, 2-2, with a power-play goal at 4:45 of the second period. Steve Maltais put the Wolves ahead to stay with a goal at 7:34. Rod Aldoff, Doug Ast and Allan Egeland scored for the Ice Dogs. Chicago's Andrei Trefilov stopped 33 shots for the win. Nikolai Khabibulin of the Ice Dogs made 35 saves.

The girl who began her career playing hockey with boys is playing with men now. Danielle Dube, who grew up in Vancouver, Canada, is a goaltender for the Long Beach Ice Dogs of the West Coast Hockey League. A publicity stunt? Hardly. Dube, 26, earned her spot and will make her first start of the season tonight when the Ice Dogs play San Diego at Long Beach Arena.

Despite a 36-20 edge in shots, the Ice Dogs fell to the Kansas City Blades, 4-3, on Saturday night at the Long Beach Arena. The Ice Dogs were unable to capitalize on any of their eight power-play opportunities. Michal Pivonka had a goal and an assist for Kansas City, with Dave Chyzowski scoring the goal that gave the Blades a 4-2 lead at 12:43 of the third period on the power play.

Record--38-28-7 (third place in IHL's Western Conference, four points behind Utah). This week's schedule--Host Manitoba, Wednesday and Friday; host Milwaukee, Saturday. Last week's results--Lost to Utah, 3-2, Wednesday; defeated Utah, 4-2, Friday; defeated Detroit, 4-1, Saturday; defeated Detroit, 4-0, Sunday. Goalkeeper Nikolai Khabibulin had his fourth shutout of the season Sunday when he made 22 saves. Khabibulin has lowered his league-leading goals-against average to 1.77.

Frantisek Kaberle and Alexei Yegorov scored in a sudden-death shootout Saturday to lead the Long Beach Ice Dogs to a 2-1 victory over the Milwaukee Admirals. Ice Dog goalie Nikolai Khabibulin, who stopped 24 of 25 shots in the game, remained perfect in shootouts this season. He stopped all four Admiral shots and has stopped 22 of 22 this season. Pavel Rosa scored for Long Beach with 13:34 to play in the first period. Richard Lintner scored for Milwaukee in the second period.

Steve Larouche and Steve Maltais each had a goal and an assist at Rosemont, Ill., Sunday as the Chicago Wolves defeated the Long Beach Ice Dogs, 3-1, for their fourth win in five games. Larouche opened the scoring on the power play with 7:50 left in the first period before assisting on Maltais' goal early in the second for a 2-0 lead. Andrei Trefilov made 24 saves for the Wolves, who improved to 5-3 against the Ice Dogs this season.

Doug Ast broke a tie with 3:25 to play in the second period Friday night, sending the Long Beach Ice Dogs to a 4-2 victory over the Utah Grizzlies. Ast's 18th goal of the season broke a 2-2 tie. Rookie Nils Ekman added an empty-net goal with 16 seconds to play.

The Ice Dogs could do little Wednesday night as the Indianapolis Ice scored three unanswered goals to end the second period en route to a 4-1 victory before 2,199 at Long Beach Arena. Dmitri Leonav scored the lone goal for the Ice Dogs (33-21-3), who remain second in the Western Conference's Southwest division. The Ice (19-27-10) ended a 15-game losing streak.

The Ice Dogs defeated the Bakersfield Condors, 3-2, in a West Coast Hockey League game Saturday before 7,580 at the Long Beach Arena. The night before, a 10-player fight marred Long Beach's 5-3 victory against the same team. Friday's melee began with 2:36 left in the second period as officials tried to separate Long Beach's Tomas Harsany and Bakersfield's Craig Martin. But when Bakersfield's Paul Willett cross-checked Long Beach's David Kudelka in the face, an all-out brawl ensued.

The Anchorage Aces scored four goals in the first 26 minutes Sunday and hung on for a 4-3 victory over the Long Beach Ice Dogs at the Sullivan Arena. Long Beach came up short in the finale of a three-game series after Sean Rowe scored at 5:38 of the second period to give the Aces a 4-1 lead. Rene Chapdelaine scored a power-play goal at 14:23, and John Lilley scored his second goal of the game for the Ducks at 16:41 to make the score 4-3.

Sean Whyte scored a power-play goal in the third period and John Kosobud scored two goals, including an empty-netter, as the Phoenix Mustangs defeated the Long Beach Ice Dogs, 4-2, Saturday night at Long Beach Arena. Kelly Askew scored both of the Ice Dog goals, the first coming only 50 seconds into the game and the second on a power play at 7:55 of the first period.

Tom Perry scored at 16:23 of the third period to give the Colorado Gold Kings a 3-2 victory over the Ice Dogs before 1,820 at Long Beach Arena.

The Ice Dogs took over first place in the West Coast Hockey League with a 7-3 victory Saturday over the Anchorage Aces before 2,733 at the Long Beach Arena. Long Beach (11-3-5) didn't waste any time, taking a 4-1 lead after the first period on two goals by Vashi Nedomansky, plus single scores by Sergei Borozdin and Tomas Kapusta.

The Ice Dogs (7-1-5) were defeated, 4-1, Wednesday night by the Idaho Steelheads at Long Beach Arena. Idaho (10-2-0), which won its sixth consecutive road game, broke the game open in the second period on goals by Arturs Hay and Pavel Bacho. Vashi Nedomansky scored for the Ice Dogs.

Sean Tallaire scored two goals as the Long Beach Ice Dogs defeated the Cleveland Lumberjacks, 3-1, Sunday for their third consecutive road victory in the International Hockey League. Cleveland led, 1-0, before Tallaire scored on a power play at 4:35 of the second period to tie the score. Tallaire's second goal was short-handed later in the second for a 2-1 lead. Tallaire has seven goals and three assists in his last six games.

Goaltender Mike Rosati stopped 26 shots Wednesday night to lead the Manitoba Moose to a 3-0 victory over the Long Beach Ice Dogs before 2,818 at the Long Beach Arena. Jeff Perrott, Bruce Coles and Scott Arniel scored for the Moose. Coles broke a scoreless tie with his goal at 1:21 of the second period. The Ice Dogs are 47-27-4.