It sounded like a Wings home game, even though the schedule said it was a New York home game. And while the fans may have been into the game, somehow the Wings were not as the New York Titans maintained a solid record away from their actual home at Madison Square Garden and handed Philly a lopsided 20-13 win at Trenton's Sovereign Bank Arena Saturday evening. 5,239 attended the neutral site game where the Wings dropped to 7-2 and New York improved to 6-5.
The teams played an even opening 15 minutes before Athan Iannucci gave the Wings what would turn out to be their only lead of the night just 11 seconds into quarter number two. New York would then score the next four goals and six of seven to take an 8-4 lead. Jason Crosbie and Iannucci would get the Wings within a pair before a late Jordan Hall tally put the Titans up 9-6 at the half. The third quarter started slow, the first goal by New York's Casey Powell not coming until 7:16 had been played. Ryan Boyle upped the Titans lead to five goals just 34 seconds later before the Wings last real flurry of goals (Rob Van Beek, Iannucci's third of the night, where he was draped by four NY defenders and still was able to get the ball past Titans keeper Matt Vinc, and Jake Bergey's second) again made it a two goal deficit. Then, with Shawn Nadelen and Geoff Snider in the box, the New York powerplay would take over, igniting a five goal run that would put the game out of the Wings reach. The closest the Wings could get the rest of the night was within five goals but a pair of empty netters from Powell and Pat Maddalena would untimately seal up the Titans first ever win over Philadelphia.
Powell and Boyle each had four goals to lead the Titans, Powell adding seven assists to lead all players with 11 points on the night. Iannucci added four tallies for the Wings while Snider led the team with six points on a goal and five assists while winning 18 of 33 faceoffs. The Wings will look to rebound from this game when they visit Rochester next Saturday night.
