{"id":542217,"date":"2026-01-25T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/542217\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:05:27","slug":"icemen-score-after-13-seconds-lose-anyway-what-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/542217\/","title":{"rendered":"Icemen score after 13 seconds, lose anyway. What went wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Turning point: <\/strong>Rasmus Kumpulainen scored the first of five unanswered goals at 4:49 of the second period and the last-place Iowa Heartlanders stormed past the Jacksonville Icemen 5-1 in ECHL hockey on Jan. 24 at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three stars:<\/strong> 1. Anthony Firriolo, Iowa (one goals, two assists). 2. William Rousseau, Iowa (33 saves). 3. Kumpulainen, Iowa (one goal, two assists).<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Iowa Heartlanders defenseman Alexander Stensson (39) advances the puck behind his back defended by Jacksonville Icemen forward Nathan Dunkley (7) in Saturday's game.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ca26e884b2ead848b14a348938c4f9a0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Iowa Heartlanders defenseman Alexander Stensson (39) advances the puck behind his back defended by Jacksonville Icemen forward Nathan Dunkley (7) in Saturday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Penalty box<\/strong>: The Icemen not only failed to exploit a five-minute power play after Iowa&#8217;s Stevie Leskovar received a match penalty for slew-footing, but gave up a short-handed go-ahead goal during the sequence to the Heartlanders&#8217; Firriolo.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>Around the rink<\/strong>: Nathan Dunkley scored only 13 seconds in for an instant lead for the Icemen (16-18-2-0), playing their second game in Lizard Kings Weekend. \u2026 Jacksonville goalie Cameron Rowe saved 20 shots. \u2026 Iowa (11-24-2-0), which entered last in the 30-team ECHL, pulled away in the third period on goals by Jonny Sorenson, Liam Coughlin and Matthew Sop. \u2026 Leskovar&#8217;s match penalty could lead to additional discipline from the ECHL office. \u2026 The Icemen had opened the weekend with a 4-2 win over the Savannah Ghost Pirates, including goals for Christopher Brown, Craig Martin, Matteo Costantini and Bennett MacArthur.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/2026\/01\/24\/jacksonville-icemen-iowa-heartlanders-echl-hockey-score\/83709905007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jacksonville Icemen-Iowa Heartlanders, ECHL hockey score;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jacksonville Icemen-Iowa Heartlanders, ECHL hockey score<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turning point: Rasmus Kumpulainen scored the first of five unanswered goals at 4:49 of the second period and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":542218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,239077,8666,3188,723,7776,7310,29482,239081,239078,239076,239079,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,18006,239080],"class_list":["post-542217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-anthony-firriolo","tag-echl","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-iowa","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-icemen","tag-kumpulainen","tag-stevie-leskovar","tag-the-icemen","tag-unanswered-goals","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vystar-veterans-memorial-arena","tag-william-rousseau"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115956831290694410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}