From a Toronto Marlies Press Release:

Whether or not you're a fan of the shootout, the Marlies certainly have found success with it this season.

For the second consecutive game, Toronto scored a shoot out victory with a 4-3 win in Cleveland against the Barons.

Jeremy Williams (16) scored twice for Toronto with Tyler Beechey (8) added a single. Patrick Rissmiller (13) had a pair for the Barons with Ryan Clowe (10) adding a solo marker.

Colin Murphy scored the shootout winner in the sixth round, his second goal of the shootout and second game in a row he has scored the shootout winner. J.F. Racine, who has been in goal for every shootout win this year, stopped five of the six Baron shooters.

Rissmiller opened the scoring for Cleveland just over six minutes into the first period when he batted a bouncing puck past Racine beside the goal. After a sluggish start to the game, Paul Maurice called a time out and rallied the troops to play a more inspired game in front of a very sparse crowd in Cleveland. The Marlies responded when Williams slapped a shot past the stick side of Nolan Schaefer to make it 1-1. The Barons out shot Toronto 17-9 in the first, but Racine made some key saves to keep the game even.

In the second, Beechey scored just over four minutes into second, when Mike Hoffman made a quick pass from behind the net to Beechey in front, when he tipped it past the leg of Schaefer for a 2-1 lead. Williams scored his second of the game three minutes later to take the 3-1 lead. The Barons rallied with a 5 on 3 power play, when Rissmiller scored to make it a 3-2 game.

Just over five minutes in the third, Rissmiller fed a cross crease pass to Clowe on the power play, and he had the wide open net to score and tie the game 3-3. It remained tied through the third and into overtime with a couple of scoring chances at both ends of the ice.

In the shootout, John Pohl and Jeremy Williams were both stopped before Murphy scored on a change up forehand shot through the legs of Schaefer. Racine stopped the first three Barons shooters before Rissmiller scored on a quick snap shot past the stick side. In round six, Murphy scored again with the same move, only going on his back hand this time. Racine then stopped Rissmiller on the final shot for the win.

Racine made 38 saves for the win, while Schaefer made 25 saves in the shootout loss.

Toronto was 0 for 3 on the power play, while the Barons went 2 for 7.

ICE CHIPS: Toronto is the only team in the AHL to not suffer a shootout loss this season....Defenseman Derrick Landmesser played his first game for the Marlies after signing a PTO contract. He's spent the last four seasons with the Memphis RiverKings in the Central Hockey League.... Toronto scratches were Brad Brown, Dominic D'Amour, John Mitchell and Chris St. Jacques.

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Boxscore

Three Stars:

1. TOR - 19 Jeremy Williams
2. CLE - 18 Patrick Rissmiller
3. TOR - 44 Colin Murphy

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Next Game: Portland Pirates (29-13-8) at Toronto Marlies (27-20-3)
When: Friday, February 10, 2006 at 7:30 PM (ET)
Where: Ricoh Coliseum
TV: B2 Networks
Radio: AM 640
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