Fri., March 16, 2012

Justin Fontaine had two goals and an assist for the first three-point game of his career to lead the Houston Aeros to a 4-3 over the Rockford IceHogs Friday at Toyota Center in front of a sellout crowd of 11,373.

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AEROS POSTGAME REPORT
MARCH 16: HOU 4, RFD 3

HOUSTON ---  Justin Fontaine had two goals and an assist for the first three-point game of his career to lead the Houston Aeros to a 4-3 over the Rockford IceHogs Friday at Toyota Center in front of a sellout crowd of 11,373.

Jeff Taffe scored for the second straight game, Kris Fredheim scored his second goal of the season and Joel Broda and David McIntyre each had two assists for Houston.

Joe Fallon made 26 saves for the Aeros, who improve to 30-20-3-9, and move into a tie for fourth place in the Western Conference with Charlotte and Abbotsford with 72 points.

Fontaine put the Aeros ahead 1-0 at 4:23 in the first period, and Taffe upped the lead to 2-0 less than three minutes later with his 15th goal of the season.

After Peter LeBlanc cut the lead to 2-1 with a power play goal at 15:01 in the first, Fredheim extended the lead to 3-1 with a power play goal at 19:44 in the first.

Fontaine added his 15th goal of the season at 7:42 in the second period to make it 4-1.

Fontaine has points in his last six games (4-5=9) and has points in 11 of the last 12 games (5-12=17). Fontaine also has five multi-point games in the last 12 and ten multi-point games total this season. It was the second straight game Fontaine has scored twice.

Rob Flick scored at 16:19 in the third and another goal less than 30 seconds later to cut the lead to 4-3.

The Aeros continue their six-game homestand Saturday against the Abbotsford Heat at 7:35 p.m. at Toyota Center.

BOMB DROPPINGS
Jeff Taffe has three goals in the last four games... Taffe has points in three of the last four games (3-6=9) and six of the last eight games (5-8=13)... Kris Fredheim scored his first goal since February 24 at Texas... Fredheim has points in two straight games and three of the last four games (1-2=3)... Joel Broda had his first points since scoring a goal March 7 at Abbotsford and his first assist since February 10 at Grand Rapids... Broda had his first two-point game since January 8 at San Antonio and his fifth two-point game of the season... David McIntyre had his first assist since March 6 at Abbotsford... McIntyre had his first two-point game since February 25 at Texas and his sixth two-point game of the season... Jon DiSalvatore has points in four straight games (4-1=5); points in nine of the last ten games (10-5=15); and 12 of the last 14 (11-7=18)... Chad Rau has an assist in two of the last four games and points in five of his last eight games (3-7=10)... Chay Genoway has assists in four straight games... The crowd of 11,373 was the second largest crowd for the Aeros this season.

NEXT GAME
Saturday vs. Abbotsford, 7:35 p.m. CDT

RECORDS
HOU: 30-20-3-9
RFD: 28-28-2-5

GOAL SCORERS
HOU: Fontaine (2), Taffe, Fredheim
RFD: LeBlanc, Flick (2)

AEROS STARTERS
F – DiSalvatore, Rau, Taffe
D – Bagnall, Genoway
G – Fallon

AEROS SCRATCHES
Fritsch, Penner, Mignardi, McKenzie, Kuemper

DECIDING GOAL
Fontaine (7:42, 2nd)

POWER PLAYS
HOU: 1/3
RFD: 1/4

GOALIES
HOU: Fallon (26/29)
RFD: Salak (25/29)