A fluky first goal against and an inconsistent offense spelled doom for the Wings this afternoon in Boston as they fell to 1-3 on the season losing 11-9 to the Boston Blazers at TD Garden.
The goal that set the tone for the game occurred in the game's first minute when after attempting to play a long pass from his crease, Wings goalie Brandon Miller had the ball get caught in the upper part of his right leg pad. As he turned around the ball came loose and rolled into an unguarded net to give Boston the early lead. The goal was credited to Dan Dawson, the first of four he would score on the day. The Wings trailed 3-0 before they tallied their first goal from Kyle Wailes, a score that was originally ruled no goal but overturned following a challenge by Wings coach Dave Huntley.
Mat Giles opened the second quarter scoring to pull the Wings within a goal at 3-2 but three Blazer scores opened up a 6-2 lead. The Wings would come back scoring three of the next four goals to go into halftime down 7-5, the last goal coming in the final seconds from Kevin Huntley, his first in the NLL in his fourth game. NLL goal number two for Huntley came in the opening minute of the third quarter to again pull Philly within a goal at 7-6. After the teams traded scores the Blazers got a pair of goals from Daryl Veltman (who also had four goals on the day) to lead 10-7 heading to the final 15 minutes. Bill McGlone scored in the first minute to make it 10-8 but neither team would score again until the final minute of play when Veltman would ice the game for the Blazers. Giles scored the game's final goal. The game would end with some chippy play after the Wings Geoff Snider went after Boston's Mitch Belisle.
The Wings will now head into a huge weekend of back to back games staring next Friday in Toronto before coming home to face the Orlando Titans the next night.
