When things aren’t going well teams find all kinds of ways to lose. Allen lost to Worcester last night 5-3 in a game where the Americans outplayed the Railers for the majority of the game. However, a disastrous two minutes and 31 seconds in the first period sealed Allen’s fate and created a hill it could not climb. Worcester scored three goals on three consecutive shots from 8:59 to 11:30 of the first period and Allen could never recover. Worcester took a 3-0 lead into the first intermission. Allen’s 2-18-2-0 record when trailing after the first period loomed large.

–  In the final two periods Allen outshot Worcester 28-20 and outscored them 3-1 before the Railers scored an empty net goal with 10 seconds remaining in the game. Allen was able to cut the Railers 3-0 lead to 3-2 with the only two goals of the second period. Artyum Kulakov scored his fifth goal of the season and Liam Gorman his fourth. 

– Allen had to kill 37 seconds of a penalty to start the third period, which it did. The back breaker came when Worcester scored just after the penalty had expired, 48 seconds into the period to take 4-2

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