While last weekend saw the Phantoms kicking off their first season and facing their first few challenges right off the bat — a tight schedule, with an evening opener going right into a 3:00 matinee, while losing another defenseman when Emil Andrae was called up — this weekend brought another one for them to work with, as they hit the road for their first trip of the season, heading to Cleveland for a pair of games against the Monsters.
If there were any questions about how the Phantoms would respond to both the disappointing loss from last Saturday and the somewhat laborious trek out to the Midwest, they pretty quickly put those concerns to rest.