Steel Down BlackHawks For Sixth Straight Win
Story By: Steve Jankowski
Bensenville (February 20th, 2009) --  The Chicago Steel entered Friday night's matchup with a chance to get within three points of the Waterloo Black Hawks for the fourth playoff spot in the East Division.  Feeding off the home crowd, Chicago beat Waterloo 5-1, extending their win streak to a season-high six games. 

Chicago wasted little time opening the scoring, when Jak Knelman pounced on the rebound of a Philip Samuelsson (Boston College) shot to put Chicago up one just 2:09 into the game. 

39 seconds later, Andrew Miller (Yale University) picked off a head-man pass by Waterloo and sent Dean Chelios (Michigan State University) in all alone on Waterloo goalie Parker Milner. Chelios deked around Milner and slid the puck past him for a quick 2-0 Chicago lead. 

The Steel extended their lead to three goals with 6:34 to go in the first.  John Moore (Colorado College) took a shot from the high slot which went wide, Rob Linsmayer (Holy Cross) picked up the rebound and shoveled it past Milner for his seventh goal of the year. 

Early in the second, Waterloo got on the board on a goal from Nick Pryor, but Chicago's defense, led by 24 saves from Steel goalie Hudson Stremmel, held Waterloo off the board the rest of the night. 

Midway through the second, with Chicago on the power play, Miller found a loose puck to the right of Milner and slid the puck in for his league-leading 26th goal of the season. 

With just over a minute remaining in the 2nd, Mark Anthoine (University of Maine) skated down right wing, and pulled up in the face-off circle, he found Moore coming late down left-wing, and Moore rifled a wrist shot high over Milner's blocker to provide the final margin of 5-1.   

The Steel will go for their seventh straight win Saturday night against the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders at 7:30 p..m.  Tickets for all Steel games can be ordered by calling the Steel Box Office at 630.594.1165.