AHL Playoff Game Night: 5-17-12 IceCaps at Admirals Game One

[BP Staff]

Norfolk passes the midpoint on their way up the mountain, but there's still a lot of climbing left to do.

STJ-1
NOR-6

Dustin Tokarski stopped 29 of 30 for the win as Jon Cooper again flexes his superior coaching instincts.

First Period
NOR Kostka, (2) (Oberg, Smith), 18:55 (PP)

Second Period
NOR Ouellet, (1) (Johnson, Barberio), 3:08 (PP)
NOR Kostka, (3) (Devos, Angelidis), 11:04
NOR Cote, (1) (Smith, Labrie), 13:42

Third Period
NOR Palat, (4) (Johnson, Conacher), 1:28
STJ Redmond, (1) (Trotter, Postma), 2:11 (PP)
NOR Aulie, (1) (Palat, Conacher), 7:21

Mike Kostka, Cory Conacher, and Tokarski were the game's three stars. Ondrej Palat, Trevor Smith, and Tyler Johnson also contributed multi-point performances.

Alex Killorn was a scratch for, presumably, health reasons.

Norfolk's players can enjoy this win for another 2-3 hours tonight, and then they need to erase it from the memory banks. The danger after a win like this is complacency. Norfolk's good, but they're not 5 goals better than the IceCaps on any given night, and they have to be ready to go Saturday night in Game Two. The IceCaps won't lick their wounds long, because they've got the shot for redemption on Saturday and they can be right in the spot they want to be with a 1-1 split, so Norfolk can't go into that game overconfident. They have to bring their lunch buckets and make sure they give themselves the best chance to get that 2-0 lead before heading north.

Box score from TheAHL.com.



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[ChaseSpace]

Complete and utter domination. I love it.

[ChaseSpace]

Anyone know why Killorn was scratched?

[ShawnD]

Originally Posted by ChaseSpace

Anyone know why Killorn was scratched?

very late scratch, I could of sworn he was out there for warm ups so maybe tweaked something. the lineup, to my surprise, was not affected to much. Picard is a playoff machine. Aulie had by far his best game in his time for Norfolk and not just because he got on the score sheet. He played tough on defense and played the body, I think he stepped up to the challenge with the Ice Caps interfering every time a norfolk forward went into the zone. I seriously have not seen obstruction like that in years, imagine if they didn't get away with it what the score could be.