Texas Brahmas rout the Tulsa Oilers 6-2

Jason Deitsch: 2 goals, 2 assists on the night

The Texas Brahmas buried the Tulsa Oilers on Saturday night in a 6-2 rout at the NYTEX Sports Centre.

It was the Brahmas fifth win in a row and their record improves to 9-3-1. The Brahmas also improved to number one in the league on the power play with a 24.51 powerplay percentage. They went three for eight on powerplay opportunities tonight.

Jason Deitsch opened up the scoring at the 7:03 mark in the first period off of an assist by Grant Jacobsen and Scott Sheppard. It was just the beginning of Tulsa goaltender Guy St. Vincent's troubles. Grant Jacobsen took a pass from Deitsch and put it past St. Vincent to give the Brahmas a 2-0 lead at the 16:56 mark. Less than two-and-a-half minutes later, Marc Belanger made it 3-0 with a slapshot coming off passes from Matt Quinn and Justin Kinnunen. Brett Jaeger was perfect, stopping all seven Tulsa shots. The Brahmas outshot the Oilers 10-7.

Tulsa stung Brett Jaeger with two goals 15 seconds apart in the second period but the Brahmas shut their momentum down exactly five minutes later when Craig Minard scored a powerplay goal off the feed from Scott Sheppard and Jason Deitsch. It was Minard's third goal of the season. The Brahmas outshot the Oilers once again; this time 14-8.

The Oilers had a 13-6 shot advantage in the third period but to no avail as Brett Jaeger stood strong and the Brahmas scored two more powerplay goals. The first came from Kevin McLeod off of a feed from Mike Vellinga and Tyler Skworchinski just 58 seconds into the period. Jason Deitsch scored his second goal of the night at the 13:48 mark with the assist from Jordan Cameron and Justin Kinnunen to provide the final score of 6-2.

Brett Jaeger earned the win for Texas making 26 saves, improving to 7-1-1 on the season and lowering his goals against average to 2.64 (6th in the league).

The Brahmas remain the least penalized team in the league with 243 penalty minutes. The were assessed 13 minutes on 5 infractions while the Oilers were hit with 41 minutes on 11 infractions including the ejection of Oilers head coach Dan Hodge for an Abuse of Officials Game Misconduct in the third period.

Grant Jacobsen retains the league-leading shooting percentage of .500. He has netted six goals on 12 shots this season.

Scott Sheppard received the third star with two assists. Grant Jacobsen received the second star with a goal and an assist and Jason Deitsch received the first star for two goals and two assists. In two nights, Deitsch has scored seven points (3 G, 4 A). This was Deitsch's first game back at NYTEX after his assignment with the AHL's Houston Aeros. His twin brother Marc was in attendance tonight.

Tonight was Dan Wildfong's 49th win as Texas’ head coach. In his second season, Wildfong needs 14 more wins to surpass Terry Menard’s 62 during his term as head coach of the then Fort Worth Brahmas from 1998-2000.

You can view the box score here

You can view photos from the game here

The Brahmas travel to the Ford Center in Oklahoma City to take on the 11-1-2 Blazers tomorrow at 5:10pm. The game can be viewed on Nifty-TV.

Photo Credit: Robert Keith