From a Toronto Marlies Press Release:

The Marlies scored early and then rode the hot goaltending of Jean-Francois Racine to victory in a 2-1 shootout win over the San Antonio Rampage on Saturday evening at Ricoh Coliseum. Toronto is back in the winner's circle after being held pointless in consecutive games for the first time since late November.

Toronto opened the night's scoring for the fifth straight game when Brad Leeb deflected a Brendan Bell point-shot over the right shoulder of Rampage starting netminder Karl Goehring at 3:30 of the first period giving the Marlies an early lead. The power-play goal was Leeb's 22nd tally of the season, his highest total since recording 24 goals in 77 games with St. John's in 2002-03. Bell played one of his strongest games of the season in a game in which the Marlies continued to rely heavily on veteran defencemen what with four players at that position currently on recall to the parent Maple Leafs. The Ottawa native had six shots on goal and was named the game's third-star for his efforts. John Pohl also picked-up an assist on the play.

Following a scoreless second period, Randall Gelech tied the game at 1-1 when he lifted a shot over a prone J-F Racine from in-close at 4:09 of the final frame. San Antonio's Goehring was spectacular throughout the evening in helping his teammates get the game to overtime and then made six key saves in the extra-session. The Marlies had a full two-minute power-play when San Antonio defenceman Brad Tiley took an interference penalty 42 seconds into overtime, but they could still not solve Goehring. The Minnesota native's strong night finally went sour when John Pohl and Colin Murphy scored in the shootout to give the home-side the win. Racine stopped the Rampage's Mike Bishai, Layne Ulmer, Jeff Taffe and Eric Chouinard while earning second star honours in the process. Goehring was named the game's first-star in front of 3,219 fans in Toronto.</quote>

Texas Style Shootout At Ricoh
Marlies' Racine quells Rampage
Rampage road report: @Toronto 2, Rampage 1 (SO)
Boxscore

Three Stars
1. SAN - 40 Karl Goehring
2. TOR - 31 Jean-Francois Racine
3. TOR - 9 Brendan Bell

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Next Game: Toronto Marlies (26-20-3) at Cleveland Barons
When: Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 7:05 PM (ET)
Where: Quicken Loans Arena
TV: B2 Networks
Radio: AM 640
Web site: www.torontomarlies.com (includes link to B2 Networks $6 web cast).

The Gwinett Gladiators (Atlanta) took a 5-3 victory of the Pensacola Ice Pilots Saturday night in Georgia. Bobby Cunningham had a goal and two assists, and Brandon Cook and Adam Courchaine each had a goal and an assist for the Pilots who could find little offense against a fast skating Gwinnett squad in the second and third periods.

Pensacola put only four shots on net in the second period. Toronto prospect Todd Ford made 43 saves in the Ice Pilots net as the Gadiators outshot the Maple Leaf's affilate 48 to 28.

Pensacola was without Dave Turon and Steven Later who had been called up to the Marlies.

Ice Pilots let one slip in Gwinnett, 5-3
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