Fri. Feb. 10, 2012

Jeff Taffe, Justin Fontaine, Kris Foucault and Cody Almond each had a goal and an assist to lead the Houston Aeros to a 5-1 win over the Grand Rapids Griffins Friday at Van Andel Arena.

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AEROS POSTGAME REPORT
FEB. 10: HOU 5, GR 1

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. ---  Jeff Taffe, Justin Fontaine, Kris Foucault and Cody Almond each had a goal and an assist to lead the Houston Aeros to a 5-1 win over the Grand Rapids Griffins Friday at Van Andel Arena.

David McIntyre also scored, and Matt Hackett made 38 saves for Houston, which improved to 24-13-3-9 and cut Oklahoma City's lead atop the AHL's West Division to seven points, while extending their second place lead in the West to five points over Abbotsford.

Taffe scored his tenth goal of the season at 11:49 in the first period to make it 1-0, and Fontaine upped the lead to 2-0 five minutes later on a power play goal. Foucault scored his ninth goal of the season at 19:25 in the first to give the Aeros a 3-0 advantage after one period.

Logan Pyett cut the lead to 3-1 with a power play goal at 6:20 of the second period before McIntyre scored his 12th goal of the season at 2:12 of the third to extend the Aeros' lead to 4-1.

Almond finished the scoring at 8:46 of the third with his sixth goal of the season.

The Aeros continue their franchise record 11-game road trip at 6 p.m. Saturday at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids against the Grand Rapids Griffins. Houston will return home March 10 against Grand Rapids at 7:35 p.m at Toyota Center.

BOMB DROPPINGS
Jeff Taffe scored his third goal in four games... Taffe had his second two-point game in the last four games... Taffe has points in three of the last four games (3-2=5)... Taffe now had his tenth two-point game of the season... Jon DiSalvatore had his 23rd assist of the season on Taffe's goal... DiSalvatore has points in eight of the last nine games (2-5=7)... Justin Fontaine scored his 11th goal of the season and his first since January 21 at Texas... Fontaine had his second two-point game in the last five and third in the last eight games... Fontaine has points in seven of the last 10 games (3-6=9)... Fontaine had his sixth two-point game of the season... Marco Scandella has points in the last four games he has played with the Aeros (1-3=4)... Kris Foucault scored his second goal in the last four games... Foucault has points in three of the last four games (2-2=4)... Foucault had his fourth two-point game of the season and first since December 6 at San Antonio... Jed Ortmeyer, who was reassigned by Minnesota to Houston Thursday, had the second assist on Foucault's goal and has points in four of the last six games with the Aeros (2-2=4)... David McIntyre had his second goal in four games and points in four of the last seven games (3-2=5)... Joel Broda had his second assist in the last four games and has points in three of the last five games (1-2=3)... Cody Almond scored his first goal since December 30 at San Antonio... Almond had his first assist since November 26 at Texas... Almond had his first two-point game of the season and first since March 13, 2011 against Manitoba... Kris Fredheim had his first assist since January 28 at San Antonio.

NEXT GAME
Saturday at Grand Rapids (6 p.m. CST)

RECORDS
HOU: 24-13-3-9
GR: 19-19-4-4

GOAL SCORERS
HOU: Taffe, Fontaine, Foucault, McIntyre, Almond
GR: Pyett

AEROS STARTERS
F – DiSalvatore, Rau, Taffe
D – Fredheim, Cuma
G – Hackett

AEROS SCRATCHES
Penner, Medvec, Reed, McKenzie, Stretch

DECIDING GOAL
Fontaine (16:29, 1st)

POWER PLAYS
HOU: 1/5
GR: 1/8

GOALIES
HOU: Hackett (38/39)
GR: Pearce (26/31)