Ice Dogs Move One up on Manitoba

Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 39 shots and four players had multi-point games as the Long Beach Ice Dogs defeated the Manitoba Moose, 5-2, in the first game of the Turner Cup playoffs.

The Ice Dogs return home Friday for Game 2 and need just one more victory in the best-of-three series to advance to the Western Conference semifinals against the Chicago Wolves.

Mike Crowley scored the game-winning goal at 18:41 of the second period from Alex Vasilevski and Nils Ekman. Vasilevski assisted on two other goals and Ekman scored another second-period goal.

Philippe Boucher had three assists and Pavel Rosa had a goal and an assist.