(WXMI) — The Grand Rapids Griffins dropped game 2 in the best-of-five series against the Rockford IceHogs 5-1. The Griffins outshot the IceHogs 28-25 and scored first before the Rockford scored five unanswered goals.
Austin Czarnik got the Griffins on the board with a goal midway through the first period. Rockford responded with a goal less than a minute later and then scored right before the end of the first period.
The IceHogs added another goal in the second period and two more in the third taking it 5-1 and tied the series 1-1.
"Tough lesson to learn, especially your first home game where you want to perform you want to have that energy," Head coach Dan Watson said after the game. "Young group, hard lesson that every game gets harder and harder and we learned that tonight."
