Show I Ii i Grizzly Magic Returns to Town 1 By Eric Bresee Staff Writs Wite- Friday night the Utah Grizzlies celebrated a magical season by raising raising rais rais- ing the Turner Cup championship banner By the end of the night the Grizzlies had reprised some of that Grizzly Magic that helped them come back from a 4 1 deficit to win 7 5 over the Phoenix Roadrunners Phoenix jumped out to a 2 0 lead leadon on their first rust two shots of the game The first shot by trickled through new Grizzlies goalie Mark McArthurs McArthur's legs The second was an impossible angle shot by forward Jeff only two minutes into the game Six minutes later Utah got its first rust goal of the year on the power play from its new found Russian Connection The goal was scored by Andrey Audrey with assists to the Vladimirs and Trailing 4 1 into the second the Grizzlies showed why they are the champions by scoring three unanswered unanswered unanswered unan unan- goals Two of the goals came from returning Jeff Sharples Sharpies the other was by veteran Claude LaPointe With the game tied at 5 Phoenix looked ready to put the Grizzlies away by scoring 32 seconds into the third period But the good old Grizzly Magic took over as newcomer newcomer newcomer new new- comer Craig Fisher walked the puck in on Phoenix goalie JC Bergeron and scored Then with 11 minutes left center Brett Lievers scored the game winner as Bergeron was caught out of the net The Grizzlies added one more goal by Marc Rodgers who scored the goal that won the Turner Cup that was actually shot in by Phoenix Brent Thompson The Lievers goal was surrounded surround surround- ed by controversy as several Roadrunners were arguing with officials Some of our players thought there was a guy in the crease said Phoenix coach John but the referee said it was after the goal After his team had blown a 4 1 lead said We made a couple couple couple cou cou- of mental mistakes that unfortunately unfortunately unfortunately went on the Scoreboard The Grizzlies scored on 4 of their 8 power-play power opportunities which lead coach Butch Goring to say Id to take credit for it it but I cant can't because we really didn't work on it The game was delay a hour half-hour due to the pre-game pre festivities which included the raising of the Western Conference and the Turner Cup championship banners The festivities included a few words from owners David Elmore I k 4 u vr g N f 1 p LC L- L C Q-i Q isbee h P end aid the tiE Utah Grizzlies l i es the tiE s season in defuse Ee of the tlE Turner dp Op They ape opened ed with a vict victory y over aver and Donna Tuttle The team cant can't win without fans said Tuttle to the fans who were on hand And to reassure fans the Grizzlies weren't leaving town any time soon Elmore asked himself Do I like it here in Utah He answered with an |