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Mike Morrison earned his third shutout of the season turning aside all 35 shots in the Sound Tigers' 2-0 victory over the Hartford Wolf Pack. Jeremy Colliton scored a power-play goal 5:38 into the third period and Jeff Tambellini sealed the game on an empty netter with only nine seconds remaining in regulation time.

In the first period, the Sound Tigers came out with a lot of energy firing 11 shots on Wolf Pack starting goaltender, Al Montoya but could not get one past him. Morrison finished with eight saves, helping kill off two Hartford man-advantages during the period.

The rivalry of the two Connecticut clubs came to the forefront when two of the bigger players on either team stepped up to try and give their team a spark. Sound Tigers' defenseman, Matthew Spiller who has been a rock on defense for the team this season, put his 6'5, 230 pound frame up against all 6'6, 231 pounds of Hartford forward Hugh Jessiman. Spiller landed a few shots to the back of Jessiman head and then pinned the former first round draft pick of the New York Rangers to the ice. It seemed as if the Sound Tigers would have gotten an extra jump from the fight but instead it was Hartford who tilted the ice towards Morrison who was perfect stopping all 14 shots in the middle frame keeping the game scoreless.

Jeremy Colliton, who has been a mainstay on the Sound Tigers' checking unit shutting down opposing team's top lines and winning many important face-offs this season, would give the Sound Tigers the only goal needed just over five minutes into the third period. With Wolf Pack defenseman Michael Sauer in the penalty box for holding, Colliton found space at the left post to position himself for either a redirection or rebound. Ben Walter skated in from the left circle and sent a pass through the crease towards the back-door where Colliton was able to angle his stick to redirect the puck past Montoya for his fifth goal of the season and the 1-0 lead. Frans Nielsen also had an assist on the goal.

Morrison would face a flurry of goal-mouth scrambles as regulation time ticked away. Making the difficult shots look easy to save, Morrison used his positioning to turn aside all 13 shots in the period and finished with a total of 35 saves in the game. Sound Tigers' leading scorer Jeff Tambellini would score an empty net goal with nine seconds remaining in the game, his 18th of the season off an assist from Sean Bentivoglio.

Montoya stopped 22 of the 23 Sound Tiger shots. Colliton's lone goal of the game came on the power-play as the Sound Tigers went 1-for-4 and Hartford was 0-for-4.

The Sound Tigers will finish the 2007 calendar year on the road in Binghamton when they take on the Senators Tuesday, Dec. 31 with the face-off scheduled for 6:05 p.m.

3 Stars:

1. Mike Morrison - Single-handedly kept his team in the game and earned his third shutout of the season
2. Jeremy Colliton - His hard word paid off with a power-play goal in the third period
3. Al Montoya - Allowed only one goal giving the Wolf Pack a chance to tie and win the game at any point

Game Operations: The Connecticut Colonials took part in the first intermission mini-game. Immediately following tonight's Sound Tiger game, the Heroes Tournament semi-finals took place between the Bridgeport and Branford Fire Departments. Branford won in a shootout 7-6. They will take on Stamford Fire Department on January 13th following the Sound Tigers' game against the Senators.

EN-ough Already: It has been a long time coming since the Sound Tigers scored an empty net goal. Tambellini's empty netter was the team's first of the season having to go all the way back to the final game of last season against the Norfolk Admirals to find the last one which was scored by Kyle Rank.

Hats off to the D: The Sound Tigers played with five defensemen tonight as Jamie Fraser is still out with a sore wrist. At several points in the game, the Sound Tigers were rolling four defensemen since several of them took penalties tonight.

Lineups

SOUND TIGERS

Forwards
7 Jeff Tambellini - 51 Frans Nielsen - 10 Sean Bentivoglio
39 Steve Regier - 9 Ben Walter - 27 Darryl Bootland
23 Trevor Smith - 21 Jeremy Colliton - 8 Ryan Kinasewich
37 Kip Brennan - 18 Micheal Haley - 12 Tyler Haskins

Defensemen
6 Matthew Spiller - 44 Drew Fata
4 Mark Wotton - 19 Scott Ford
50 Dustin Kohn

Goalies
33 Mike Morrison (starter)
31 Michael Mole

WOLF PACK

Forwards
9 Nigel Dawes - 15 Greg Moore - 16 Alex Bourret
28 Lauri Korpikoski - 38 Bruce Graham - 27 Hugh Jessiman
46 Jordan Owens - 47 Tommy Pyatt - 17 Pierre Parenteau
10 Ryan C. Murphy - 44 Mike Ouellette

Defensemen
71 Thomas Pock - 25 Jake Taylor
3 Corey Potter - 4 Michael Sauer
5 Andrew Hutchinson - 37 Matt Waddell

Goalies
29 Al Montoya (starter)
62 Miika Wiikman