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Wings rally for 13-11 win over Calgary, claim 4th straight win

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By Anthony Caruso, III, Phillylacrosse.com – Posted 1/12/25

The Philadelphia Wings scored four times in the span of two minutes and 24 seconds late in the fourth quarter to turn around a 10-9 deficit for an eventual 13-11 win over the Calgary Roughnecks at Wells Fargo Center on Saturday afternoon. The victory stretched Philadelphia’s winning streak to four, a first for the new franchise and the first four-game winning streak for any Wings team in 17 years.

The game was a back-and-forth affair until that final run. After the clubs traded goals in the early going, Calgary went on a three-goal run to take a 4-2 lead. The Wings answered that with a four-goal run to make it 6-4, only to see Calgary score the next three to go up 7-6 at halftime.

Things got much more stingy in the second half, as the teams combined for just six goals in the first 23 minutes of the half. After trading off two goals apiece in the third quarter, the Wings got the first goal of the fourth quarter to make it 9-9. But another Calgary goal 8:31 into the frame gave the Roughnecks the lead again at 10-9.

That’s when Philadelphia’s final run started with the 200th career goal by Holden Cattoni that tied the score with 3:11 to play. Joe Resetarits then gave the Wings the lead for good 59 seconds later, and Mitch Jones added an insurance goal 58 seconds after that. Scott Dominey finished things off with an empty-netter, although Calgary added one more tally in the final seconds.

Cattoni scored his 200th NLL goal in the fourth quarter. His goal tied the game at 10 apiece. His goal helped spark a four-goal run by the Wings to make it 13-10. With 15 seconds left, the Roughnecks scored a late goal.
Jones set the pace for the Wings with five goals, hitting a hat trick in the first half all on power play goals. The Wings went 4-for-5 on the power play, while Calgary was 4-for-6 – the extra kill from the Wings came on a Roughneck power play early in the fourth quarter where Calgary was trying to restore its two-goal lead. Jones added two assists for a seven-point game, while Resetarits had two goals and five assists for his own seven-point game while putting a career-high 22 shots on goal. Cattoni had a goal and five assists for a six-point game, Brennan O’Neill scored twice, and Phil Caputo, Blaze Riorden and Dominey each tallied one goal.
“This locker room’s awesome,” Jones said. “I said it from the beginning and it honestly just keeps getting better. We just keep adding quality guys and guys that care about it and I think going back to kind of being at home, I know obviously we had a tough stretch the whole stretch here last year and we kind of put emphasis on that this year to show up for each other and our fans and everyone involved.
“I think so far, we’re off to a good start doing that.”
Cattoni was surprised he hit 200 career goals. “I just found out about that in the locker room after the game,” Cattoni said. “It’s cool. It means I’m getting older for sure, which is I guess a positive in that I’ve played a lot of games in the NLL now, but always good to hit milestones in your career. It’s a good feeling.”
Wings first-year coach Ian Rubel said his team made several key adjustments in the second half.
“Pretty much,” Rubel said. “I mean we knew going into halftime both teams were going to kind of make adjustments. The game was tighter than I was hoping for sure. I think we can tell that in that first half we had a bit of rust to have in that layoff last week in the bye week. So I think we just needed that first half to kind of shake something off.”

Nick Damude was stellar in net, stopping 46 of 57 Calgary shots. He outdueled Roughnecks goaltender Cam MacLeod, who was nearly as good with 43 saves on 55 Wings bids.

Next up for the Wings comes a back-to-back against two of the league’s best teams. They’ll visit the Buffalo Bandits next Saturday, January 18 before coming back home to host the Vancouver Warriors on Sunday, January 19. Tickets are available at https://fevo-enterprise.com/group/Phillylacrossecom

Wings’ Holden Cattoni, who scored his 200th career goal, heads to the cage(Photo by Anthony Caruso, Jr.)

 

Wings 13, Roughnecks 11
Calgary Roughnecks 3 4 2 2 -11
Philadelphia Wings 2 4 2 5 -13

Team SOG FO PP PIM
Calgary Roughnecks 57 21-27 4-6 10
Philadelphia Wings 56 6-27 4-5 12

Wings Scoring

Number Player G A PTS PIM SOG LB BLK TO CTO
4 Tony Malcom 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0
7 Connor Sellars 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
10 Blaze Riorden 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 0
12 Liam Patten 0 2 2 0 0 6 0 0 2
13 Scott Dominey 1 0 1 4 2 6 1 2 1
15 Joe Resetarits 2 5 7 0 22 13 0 1 0
16 Phil Caputo 1 0 1 0 3 4 0 1 0
17 Tyler Burton 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 2
19 Holden Cattoni 1 5 6 2 8 1 0 1 0
20 Nathan Fehr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
24 Mitch Jones 5 2 7 2 10 5 1 2 0
26 Isaiah Davis-Allen 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 1 0
33 Anthony Joaquim 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
34 Brennan O’Neill 2 1 3 0 6 1 0 1 0
41 Alex Pace 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0
67 Jordan Stouros 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
92 Sam LeClair 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 0 0
94 Ryan Wagner 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 1 0
96 Mike McCannell 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 1

Wings Goalie
# Goalie GA SAVES MIN
39 Nick Damude 11 46 60:00

NLL Standings
Team W L PCT GF GA
Buffalo Bandits 4 0 1.000 61 33
Philadelphia Wings 4 1 .800 74 59
Saskatchewan Rush 4 1 .800 59 50
Vancouver Warriors 3 1 .750 42 37
Georgia Swarm 4 2 .667 66 71
Colorado Mammoth 4 2 .667 83 70
Ottawa Black Bears 3 2 .600 49 50
San Diego Seals 3 3 .500 67 66
Calgary Roughnecks 2 2 .500 52 56
Halifax Thunderbirds 2 3 .400 71 73
Rochester Knighthawks 2 5 .286 80 92
Las Vegas Desert Dogs 1 5 .167 61 89
Albany FireWolves 1 5 .167 69 67
Toronto Rock 0 5 .000 42 63