Revs Get Even, Defeat Junior Flyers at Home

WARMINSTER, PA - The Eastern Hockey League Philadelphia Revolution defeated the Philadelphia Junior Flyers by a 4-3 score.

The victory gives the Revolution their second win of the season.  The team also snaps a two-game losing streak and improves to 1-1-0-0 against their in-market rival.

"I thought for the first time this season the team showed an intensity needed to compete at this level," said Revolution Head Coach James Laux.  "Our goaltending was superb, our power play performed better, and our penalty kill continued to stay strong."  

Revolution captain Riley Egan led his team in scoring with two goals.  Also scoring for the club were forward Remington Woods and defenseman Ryan O'Malley.  

"Everyone stuck with the team's system," said Egan.  "It shows when everyone is doing the little things right sticking to the game plan."    

Forwards Ken Tencza, Chris Connor, and Ryan Marker and defensemen Dennis Maier, Nick Schaefer, and Steve Mallory assisted on the Revolution goals. 

"The offense really bought into our system and the defense was always there anchoring the team," said O'Malley.  "Our leaders came to play and our young guys really stepped up."

Past the midway point of the second period, Egan and O'Malley scored in a 16-second span.    

Goaltender Jacob Caffrey earned the win net, stopping 29 of 32 shots.  Caffrey got the go ahead to play in tonight's game after dealing with concussion-like symptoms this past week.

"It feels really good bouncing back physically," said Caffrey.  "Everyone stepped up to help me in net, and some of the saves I made were quite memorable.  Some of these guys on the Junior Flyers like to make the first move on the goalie, and knowing this, I was able to stop some really critical shots on goal that could've changed the momentum of this game." 

The Revolution special teams were key factors in tonight's victory.  The power play unit went  2-for-5 and the penalty kill went 3-for-4.

"After struggling for a bit on the power play," said Coach Laux, "it is good to see the team get pucks in the net with the man advantage.  Our penalty kill has been good, and it continues to stay good."   

Scoring for the Junior Flyers were forwards Jonathan Ruiz and Nick Idi and defenseman Joe Heffernan.  Goaltender Billy Wager received the loss, stopping 24 of 28 shots on net.

The Revolution will be back in action tomorrow afternoon when they square off against the Valley Junior Warriors at The Rink at Warwick at 1:45 PM.  Fans can stream the game live on FastHockey.com.   

"We are looking for more of the same game play in tomorrow's game against Valley," said Coach Laux.  "I still wanna see a lot of hard work on the ice, where the defense continues to cut down on the opposition's high quality scoring chances and the offense continues to keep the puck in the attacking zone." 

The Philadelphia Revolution are a United States Tier-III junior hockey organization stationed in Warminster, Pennsylvania.  The team sports squads in the Eastern Hockey League, the United States Premier Hockey League, the Eastern Junior Elite Prospects League, and the Metropolitan Junior Hockey League.  For more information about the Revolution, visit www.PhiladelphiaRevolution.net.  Like Philadelphia Revolution Ice Hockey on Facebook and follow them on Twitter @RevsJrHockey for team scores and news.

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