Travis Lisabeth and Michael Wirll were arrested on Fort Myers beach Thursday night after a jumping a guitarist at the Cottage Bar of Fort Myers Beach.

"There's this guy in the picture taking my guitar and walking out of the bar with it," said local musician Dave Collaton.

But Collaton says he grabbed his guitar back from Lisabeth, but it did not happen peacefully.

"I turn around then I got hit," said Collaton.

Both players were arrested on D&D charges and Lisabeth will face Battery charges as well. Neither played in Friday Night's 5-3 Pilot loss to the Florida Everblades.

Ice Pilot President Greg Schuh says the players will be disciplined when the team arrives back in Pensacola on Sunday Night.

Hockey players accused of starting bar brawl

The fast skating Florida Everblades took a pair of games from the Pensacola Ice Pilots on the road Friday and Saturday night at the Pensacola Civic Center.

Friday night was a bit of a barn burner, with 12 goals being scored for the announced crowd of 4,335, with the Blades coming out on top 7-5.

Pensacola took the early lead when Dallas Steward score shorthanded at 9:16 of the first. The Blades answered back with two power play goals, both off the stick of Brent McDonald with assists going to Ryan Van Buskirk and Chris Lee.

For Van Buskirk, his first game back in a Blades uniform would prove to be very productive as picked up four assists on the night.

Brent Peterson made it 3-1 Blades, again on the power play with Mario Joly in the box on a high sticking major. Mike Wrill got an even strength goal to end the first period, getting the Pilots back in the game.

Pensacola tied it up just 41 seconds into the second stanza, their first power play tally of the night, coming off the stick of DWayne Hay. Blades captain Ryan Brindly was in the box, sitting out an interferance infraction from the end of the first period.

The Blades took the lead back on a shorthander by Panther prospect Dustin Johner, but Pensacola again tied the score, Rob Rankin putting the puck in the net. Netminder Michael Ayers picked up an assist on that goal.

Franklin MacDonald, also a Panther prospect, put the Blades up by one, again on the power play, while McDonald netted an even strength goal to finish off the second.

The Pensacola fans were feeling a bit beaten down by referee Jonathan Peterson, but on the whole the game was called fairly evenly with Pensacola gaining 12 power play opportunities to the Blades 11. The diffence was the Blades were making the man advantage work for them, converting on 5 of their advantage situations.

The two teams traded goals in the third, with Adam Taylor scoring for the Pilots and Johner for the Blades.

Panthers second round draft pick David Shantz turned back 35 Pilots shots, to run his record to 7-2-0, while Ayers made 37 saves in the losing effort.

Blades outscore Ice Pilots, 7-5
Everblades edge Ice Pilots, 7-5; teams set for rematch tonight
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Pensacola would come out gunning on Saturday night, looking for a spot of revenge. Wrill got the only tally in the opening period on a wrist shot off the face off circle.

The Blades would tally three times in the second period, with Michael Angelidis tying up the game with an assist to Brent McDonald. Franklin MacDonald blasted a shot past Ayers from the top of the right face off circle to give the Blades their first lead of the night. It was MacDonald's second goal of the season since being demoted from the AHL Rochester Americans.

Travis Lisabeth pushed a goal past Carolina's Craig Kowalski to tie the game again, Wrill assisted on the goal. Chris Dyment took the lead back for the Blades going into the locker room for the break going into the third.

There would be no rest for the Blades though as Pensacola came back to tie the game with Rob Rankin netting his seventh goal of the season. Brad Zancanaro answered right back though, scoring the game winner by banking a shot off Ayers and into the goal.

Kowalski made 27 saves on the night, improving his record to 7-5-0, while Ayers made 31 saves, to drop to 2-5-1 on the season in the Pilots net.

The Blades now make a road swing up to Gwinett for an afternoon game against the Galdiators, a team considered by most to the Everblades biggest rivals.

The Gladiator are 13-6-4 on the season with 30 points, good for second place in the South Division. The Blades trail them by two points with two games in hand.

Everblades win second straight in 4-3 effort over Pensacola
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Trenton Titans left wing Mike Pandolfo is the In Glas Co ECHL Player of the Week for Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2006. Pandolfo netted his first professional hat trick in a 4-3 shoot out loss at Johnston and then tallied short handed and convered on his shoot out attempt the following night for a win over the Toledo Storm.

Pandolfo was a 3rd round draft pick of the Buffalo Sabres in the 1998 entry draft, but is currently playing in the Devils system under contract to Lowell of the American Hockey League. Pandolfo has a four-game goal streak (7g) and a 10-game scoring streak (9g-6a) and has had three multiple-goal games and six multiple-point games. He leads the Titans and is fifth in the ECHL with 13 goals while his team-leading 23 points in 16 games ties him for 17th in the league.

Las Vegas Wranglers netminder Kevin McKenna is the RBK ECHL Goaltender of the Week. He becomes the first two-time winner having captured the award for Nov. 13-19 and was runner-up for the award last week. A sixth round draft pick of the Nashville Predators in 2002, McKenna when 2-0-0 and stopped 83 shots while helping Las Vegas sweep a three-game series at West Division leading Idaho, allowing the Wranglers to remain atop the ECHL with 31 points (12-1-7). He has won his last six starts to help Las Vegas extend its ECHL season-high winning streak to eight games and its league season-high road winning streak to seven games.

McKenna is 8-1-1 and tied for the league lead with two shutouts while his .925 save percentage ties him for fourth and his 2.36 goals-against average is fifth.

Two Texas Wildcatters carried off the Monthly honors. Kevin Baker was named the CCM TACKS ECHL Player of the Month for November. The 27-year-old led the ECHL last month with 12 goals and seven power-play goals and was second in scoring with 21 points. He scored in each of his 12 games in November to extend his scoring streak to a league-high 16 games which through the first six weeks of the season was every game he played for the Wildcatters.

Matt Yeats was named the RBC Financial Group ECHL Saver of the Month for November. He won his last five starts to finish the month at 8-1-2 with a goals-against average of 3.16 and a save percentage of .918, helping the record-setting start that has the Wildcatters sitting in first place in both the South Division and the American Conference.

He begins December with a 10-2-2 record and goals-against average of 3.05 and a save percentage of .908, tied for the league lead in wins while ranking fifth with 788 saves.

Reading forward James Hiebert was finded an undisclosed amount as a result of his actions at the conclusion of ECHL Game #237 against Cincinnati on Dec. 6. After the game had ended, Hiebert was assessed a major penalty and a Game Misconduct under Rule 61 – Slashing. Hiebert is fined under Rule 29 – Supplementary Discipline.

Idaho's Marty Flichel was suspended for two games as a result of his actions in ECHL Game #236 on Dec. 6 against Phoenix. Flichel was assessed a major penalty and a Game Misconduct under Rule 50 – Kneeing. He missed Saturday's game Phoenix (Dec. 9) and will sit out Wednesday's game at Utah (Dec. 13).

Former Everblades netminder Marc Magliarditi signed a contract with the Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights of the American Hockey League on Thursday. Magliarditi, the ECHL's all-time leader in shutouts, had been on the 30-day injured reserve with the ECHL's Las Vegas Wranglers and was activated then loaned to Omaha, leaving Carolina's Kevin Nastiuk and McKenna as the Wranglers' two goalies.

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
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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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From a Toronto Marlies Press Release:

The Marlies return to Ricoh Coliseum proved to be their most disappointing home-result of 2006 as they fell by a 6-4 score to the Peoria Rivermen on Friday evening in Toronto. After concluding a ten-game road trip by garnering 12 of a possible 20 points last Sunday afternoon in Lowell, the Marlies were unable to keep a three-game home winning streak alive in losing at Ricoh for the first time since a 4-2 defeat to the Binghamton Senators on December 27th.

Toronto opened the scoring when John Pohl scored on the power-play at 5:33 of the first period. He picked-up a loose puck on the rebound of a Brendan Bell point shot and slid it around a sprawled-out Reinhard Divis for his team-leading 26th goal of the season. The goal matched Pohl's career high, achieved with Worcester in 2003. Brent Evans and Timofei Shishkanov tallied goals just over four minutes apart midway through the period to provide the Rivermen with their first lead of the evening. Bates Battaglia knotted the score at 2-2 when he closed-out the opening frame's scoring with his 13th goal of the year, on the power-play at 13:08.

Kris Newbury gave Toronto their second lead of the evening when his wrist-shot deflected off the stick of a Rivermen defenceman and past a surprised Divis at 2:47 of the middle stanza. Ben Ondrus and Brett Engelhardt picked-up assists on the play, the second of the evening for Engelhardt. The lead was short-lived however as Trent Whitfield tied the game at 3-3 when his shot eluded Marlies starting netminder J.S. Aubin 30 seconds later. Troy Riddle's 10th goal of the season with 6:45 remaining in the second period gave the Rivermen a lead they would not relinquish. Shishkanov scored his second goal of the evening for a 5-3 lead at 15:41 before Ian White's power-play goal pulled Toronto to within one exactly two minutes later.

Divis was a major factor in the victory having turned aside a number of quality scoring chances while the Marlies were on the power-play in the late going. D.J. King had the only goal of the third period as he tallied his fourth marker of the season with 3:09 remaining in regulation-time to give the visitors a two-goal margin. The game was played before 3,517 fans.

Rivermen Roll Past Marlies With 6-4 Win
Rivermen outscore Marlies on the Road

"Look at our last 10 games ... take this one out, we've played great -- our best hockey of the year." ~ Marlies Head Coach Paul Maurice

Two out of three, still bad
What will Russian do for an encore?
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Next Game: San Antonio Rampage (14-28-4) at Toronto Marlies (25-20-3)
When: Saturday, February 5, 2006 at 7:00 PM (ET)
Where: Ricoh Coliseum
TV: B2 Networks
Radio: AM 640
Web site: www.torontomarlies.com (includes link to B2 Networks $6 web cast).

In related news, the Marlies ECHL affiliate, the Pensacola Ice Pilots lost last night to the Phoenix Road Runners.

Brendan Cook recorded two of the Ice Pilots three goals in the loss. Netminder Todd Ford turned away 43 Phoenix shots, while the Ice Pilots could only muster 17 against the Road Runners' Mike Mole.

Pensacola falls, 4-3, to Phoenix
Ice Pilots Lose 4-3 to Phoenix
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