Friday: El Paso Rhinos 3 @ Colorado Grit 2 – Hockey Season returns for 2024 as your El Paso Rhinos take to the road for the first official game against the Colorado Grit! The puck dropped here in Greeley on the Grit’s home ice. Colorado took the early game lead as Braden Junker scores the first goal of the night. Unfortunately for the Grit this lead would lass less than a minute as Rasmus Nousiainen ties it up at 1-1 at just under five minutes in to the game! Nousiainen wouldn’t end it there and took the second goal of the night to give Rhinos a 2-1 lead they’d keep for the next period and a half. Deep in the third period Sheldon Rioux brings back the game for the Grit, tying up the game with just over five minutes left to go in regulation time. No further scoring gave us an extra period, followed by a Sudden Death shootout where Michael Manzi displayed phenomenal defensive technique. However it would be Ryder Many Grey Horses who would score the game winning goal giving the Rhinos a 3-2 victory at the first outing of the season.
Saturday: El Paso Rhinos 1 @ Colorado Grit 4 – Rhinos & Grit return to the ice for game #2 of the series here in Greeley, CO. Grit takes the early game as Alexander German earns their first goal of the night. Colorado held on to this lead until just before the halfway mark in the period where Rasmus Nousiainen tied it up for the Rhinos at 1-1. Unfortunately for El Paso this would be the last goal they’d see. Colorado rounded out the period with two more goals as Luke Helgeson and Georgeg Poirier make it 3-1 over the Rhinos. The game would continue on with neither team able to snatch a goal until the third period where Helgeson scores his second of the night to end the game with a 4-1 victory for the Grit.
NEXT GAME | Rhinos will face off against the Shreveport Mudbugs on September 20th, 2024 on Shreveport Ice! Make sure to check it out over on NAHLTV.com
