Not enough silver linings to make loss to Avs palatable. TB-1COL-4 Andrei Vasilevskiy allowed three goals on 22 shots for the loss. Not a great stat line, but you can hardly complain about goaltending when you only get one goal of support. First Period7:12 COL Johansen (8), (unassisted) Second Period1:48 COL Johansen (9), (Tate, Makar)3:36 … Read more
Star Wars Night ends successfully for the Crunch. LAV-3SYR-4 (SO) Matt Tomkins allowed three goals on 24 shots for the win in his Syracuse debut. First Period1:14 SYR Robert (7), (Dumont, Goncalves)(PP)11:08 LAV Kidney (3), (Stephens, Galipeau)17:11 LAV Gignac (6), (Galipeau, Bisson) Second Period4:27 SYR Chaffee (5), (Goncalves, Lilleberg)10:16 LAV Mysak (3), (McKay) Third Period7:28 … Read more
Vasiy might get spoiled by this much goal support. TB-8CAR-2 Andrei Vasilevskiy allowed two goals on 24 shots for the victory in his season debut after returning from back surgery. I could argue this was, in some ways, a classic Lightning game where Vasilevskiy held the game close after a slow start and then the … Read more
Payback. UTI-0SYR-3 Brandon Halverson stopped all 26 shots he faced for the victory. First Period13:58 SYR Thompson (2), (Dumont, Chaffee)(PP) Second Period0:24 SYR Carlile (2), (Groshev, Thompson) Third Period11:14 SYR Merala (1), (Allard, Fortier) Halverson, Waltteri Merala, and Jack Thompson were the game’s three stars. You could see the relief in Merala’s posture after finally … Read more
Everything but the finish. WPG-3TB-2 (OT) Jonas Johansson allowed three goals on 32 shots for the OT loss. I thought he played one of his best games of the past two to three weeks tonight and just needed some more goal support to get the full result. First Period5:29 WPG Morrissey (3), (Demelo, Ehlers)13:06 WPG … Read more
Ambushed. SYR-1UTI-4 Brandon Halverson allowed four goals on 29 shots for the loss. First Period8:20 UTI Ibragimov (3), (Hatakka, Nemec)(PP) Second Period6:26 UTI Bowers (5), (Criscuolo)(SH)9:32 UTI Parent (6), (Foote, Thompson)11:25 UTI Criscuolo (4), (Stillman, Misyul) Third Period15:10 SYR Usau (4), (Myers, Day) I’ll be interested to see what Bouchard says about the game, because … Read more
Lightning’s improbable win streak has them close to improbably good start. BOS-4TB-5 (OT) Jonas Johansson allowed four goals on 26 shots for the (sweet sweet goal support subsidized) win. First Period6:39 TB Jeannot (4), (Motte, Eyssimont)9:55 BOS Zacha (7), (Pastrnak, Marchand) Second Period19:30 TB Paul (8), (Sergachev, Stamkos)(PP) Third Period6:26 BOS Pastrnak (12), (Lohrei, McAvoy)7:47 … Read more
Goals, goals, goals. EDM-4TB-6 Jonas Johansson allowed 4 goals on 43 shots for the win. First Period3:39 EDM Ryan (1), (Nugent-Hopkins, Ceci)(SH)8:31 EDM Hamblin (1), (unassisted)19:09 TB Kucherov (12), (Stamkos, Point)(PP) Second Period12:56 TB Kucherov (13), (Sergachev, Raddysh)15:55 EDM Ryan (2), (Foegele, Ekholm) Third Period3:54 TB Jeannot (3), (Eyssimont, Sergachev)8:04 EDM Bouchard (4), (Nugent-Hopkins)9:28 TB … Read more
Tough night for Syracuse. SYR-2HFD-5 Hugo Alnefelt is back… and allowed 4 goals on 28 shots for the loss. First Period1:40 HFD Henriksson (1),(Sykora) Second Period10:26 SYR Chaffee (4), (Fortier)10:55 HFD Berard (3), (Brodzinski)15:40 HFD Robertson (1), (Brodzinski, Berard)17:01 HFD Belzile (5), (Nash, Othmann)(PP) Third Period16:11 HFD Trivigno (2), (unassisted)(EN)18:37 SYR Usau (3), (Lilleberg, Element) … Read more
Veterans help Crunch pull away with the win. HFD-3SYR-5 Brandon Halverson allowed three goals on 22 shots for the victory. First Period9:32 SYR Groshev (8), (Dumont, Carlile)13:05 HFD Brodzinski (9), (Robertson, Nash)(PP)17:37 HFD Blidh (3), (Hillman, Rempe) Second Period10:25 SYR Walcott (6), (Myers) Third Period3:21 SYR Walcott (7), (Dumont)6:52 HFD Brodzinski (10), (Othmann, Belzile)(PP)13:23 SYR … Read more