(With files from David Foot. Photo: Jake Luccini exchanges pleasantries with Marlies defenceman Joseph Duszak)
It wasn’t the way the Belleville Senators wanted to start a four game road trip.
Despite outshooting Toronto 39-31 the B-Sens suffered a 4-2 loss to the Marlies. Belleville Coach Troy Mann sums it up.
Semyon Der-Arguchintsev and Filip Kral staked the Marlies to a 2-0 lead after forty minutes of play as both came through with the man advantage. Meanwhile Belleville was 0 for 4 on their power play chances.
A Lassi Thomson wrister from the high slot 4:01 into the third frame broke the Toronto shutout bid. Bobby McMann restored the Marlies’ two-goal advantage 23 seconds later, shortly after Belleville initially got on the board.
Again, the Senators were brought to within one, as an Egor Sokolov dump-in from the red line found the back of the net after the awkward bounce beat Erik Kallgren with 5:50 left to play.
After sustained pressure in the Toronto zone, Antti Suomela sent a long clearance down the length of the ice to find the empty net with just over a minute to play, clinching the Marlies’ victory.
The Senators are in Rochester to play Americans tomorrow and Saturday night.
