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Tuesday, December 4, 2001

Houston 0, Cleveland 7

CLEVELAND, Ohio (Ticker) -- Vesa Toskala collected his first shutout of the season and Mike Craig and Graig Mischler both finished with a pair of goals and an assist as the Cleveland Barons routed the Houston Aeros, 7-0. Toskala turned away all 34 shots he faced to improve to 6-8-1. Craig opened the scoring on the power play with 6:22 remaining in the first period, assisted on Chad Wiseman's score five minutes later and netted a tally in the second period. Mischler, who assisted on Eric LaPlante's first-period goal, collected back-to-back goals within a 20-second span in the third for Cleveland, which snapped a four-game winless streak. Joel Prpic added three assists for the Barons. Jamie McLennan gave up six goals on 26 shots for the loss, falling to 6-6-1.

----------------------------- Houston 0 0 0--0 Cleveland 3 1 3--7 ----------------------------- FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Cleveland, Craig 15 (power play) (Kraft, Cheechoo), 13:38. 2, Cleveland, Laplante 1 (Bootland, Mischler), 14:31. 3, Cleveland, Wiseman 8 (Prpic, Craig), 18:22. Penalties: Hyvonen, Cle (hooking), 3:10; Bancroft, Cle (elbowing), 7:39; Mischler, Cle (boarding), 10:36; B Mclean, Hou (slashing), 12:34; Roche, Hou (high sticking), 14:40. SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 4, Cleveland, Craig 16 (Prpic, Carkner), 16:02. Penalties: Hyvonen, Cle (elbowing), 1:19; Zalesak, Cle (hooking), 6:49; Cheechoo, Cle (slashing), 8:19; Kraft, Cle (roughing, fighting major, game misconduct), 11:03; Bordeleau, Hou (elbowing, fighting major), 11:03; Hyvonen, Cle (tripping), 17:31; Carkner, Cle (slashing), 19:00. THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 5, Cleveland, Smith 3 (power play) (Prpic), 6:58. 6, Cleveland, Mischler 2 (unassisted), 7:57. 7, Cleveland, Mischler 3 (Hogan, Cheechoo), 8:19. Penalties: Bordeleau, Hou (slashing), 6:52; Bancroft, Cle (interference), 9:30; Davison, Cle (roughing), 12:31; Simicek, Hou (roughing), 12:31; Roche, Hou (slashing), 14:47; Bancroft, Cle (interference, unsportsmanlike conduct), 15:58. Shots on goal: --------------------------------- Houston 11 13 10--34 Cleveland 16 6 10--32 --------------------------------- Power-play Conversions: Hou - 0 of 11, Cle - 2 of 3. Goalies: Houston, Mclennan (26 shots, 20 saves), Gusmanov (7:57 of 3rd period, 0, 0). Cleveland, Toskala (34, 34). A: 1,981. Referee: Spada. Linesmen: Kumler, Wisner. INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS Houston Cleveland G A +/- Shots G A +/- Shots B Mclean 0 0 -4 8 Bancroft 0 0 even 2 Bolibruck 0 0 -4 3 Bootland 0 1 +1 1 Bordeleau 0 0 even 3 Carkner 0 1 +2 1 Cavanaugh 0 0 -1 0 Cheechoo 0 2 +2 0 Cull 0 0 -2 1 Craig 2 1 +2 5 Gustafson 0 0 -- 0 Davison 0 0 +1 1 Harlton 0 0 -2 2 Fibiger 0 0 +3 1 Laplante 0 0 -2 0 Hogan 0 1 +3 0 Larose 0 0 even 3 Hyvonen 0 0 +2 5 Matteucci 0 0 even 1 Kraft 0 1 even 0 Mclennan 0 0 -- 0 Laplante 1 0 +2 3 Murphy 0 0 -1 2 Loyns 0 0 even 0 Roche 0 0 -1 2 Mischler 2 1 +3 4 Shmyr 0 0 even 0 Prpic 0 3 +2 1 Simicek 0 0 -2 0 Smith 1 0 +1 1 Veilleux 0 0 -1 1 Toskala 0 0 -- 0 Virta 0 0 -3 5 Wiseman 1 0 +1 6 Wanvig 0 0 even 2 Zalesak 0 0 even 1 Yarema 0 0 -2 1