2017-2018 PLAYER & GOALIE OF THE WEEK #19

Mark_StoneAnders_NilssonJoe_PavelskiFrederik_Andersen

EASTERN SKATER TEAM GP GOALS ASISSTS POINTS PM  +/-  SOG S%
Stone, Mark CRK 6 4 8 12 4 6 16 25%
                   
EASTERN GOALIE TEAM GP GOALS AGAINST G.A. AVERAGE SAVES SAVE %
Nilsson, Anders BGR 2 3 1.52 58 .951
                   
WESTERN SKATER TEAM GP GOALS ASSISTS POINTS PM  +/-  SOG S%
Pavelski, Joe MIN 4 5 4 9 6 3 15 33%
                   
WESTERN GOALIE TEAM GP GOALS AGAINST G.A. AVERAGE SAVES SAVE %
Andersen, Frederik LGD 3 3 0.99 88 .967
                   

Long Beach Ice Dogs  
LA Great Danes @ Long Beach Ice Dogs Long Beach jumped out to 3-0 lead in the first but LA came back with 3 goals of their own and tied it on Schenn’s 2nd goal of the game with 1 second to go in the game forcing OT. It looked like we were headed for a shootout but Skinner scored the game winner with 3 seconds left in OT to give Long Beach a 4-3 win.

Stars:
1. Skinner
2. Schenn
3. Marner

Brentwood Bandits @ Long Beach Ice Dogs For the second game in a row Skinner scored 2 goals as Long Beach won 2-1. This time he scored the game winner early in the 2nd period and the Ice Dogs withstood a furious Brentwood charge to win 2-1. Brentwood threw 39 shots at Talbot, including out-shooting Long Beach 24-9 over the last 2 periods but he was up to the challenge.

Stars:
1. Skinner
2. Talbot
3. Stamkos

Weekly Summary: Long Beach gets wins against 2 of the top teams in the league and keep their faint playoff hopes alive.

Gilbert Sharks Gilbert has 3 home games in this block
LA Great Danes @ Gilbert Sharks Giordano scores the only goal early in the 2nd period and Tuuka Rask gets 26 saves in the 1-0 Gilbert shutout.
Hampton Blizzard @ Gilbert Sharks Evgeni Malkin has 4 points leading Hampton to the 6-4 win. Anders Lee added 2 Goals as well.
Corktown Suds @ Gilbert Sharks Gilbert wins 4-3 despite 2 Goals from Auston Matthews.
Weekly Summary: Gilbert goes 2-1 at home in this file.

California Regulators  
Corktown Suds @ California Regulators Corktown kills California 4-1.
Brentwood Bandits @ California Regulators Brentwood beats California 4-2. Yay!
Bucks County @ California Regulators Bucks County beats California, 2-1, barely.
Weekly Summary: California drops 3 and is clearly an awful team. But, next year looks more palatable. Not good, but better.

Jagr Mullets Only one home game this week, but it’s a big one – against brotherly rival Brentwood.

And with only a couple of homes games left, Jagr decides to rest their top two defensemen. Will they buck the odds, or pay dearly for this decision?

Brentwood Bandits @ Jagr Mullets With Lindholm and Ellis on the bench, Nurse and Hunwick step in on the blue line. Are they up to the challenge?

The game is uneventful for the first 12 minutes. Then Brentwood decides to take a nap for 2 minutes, and it proves fatal.

Gaborik (8), Hall (18), and Nurse (4) all score 2 minutes apart for the Mullets, and the Bandits never recover.

Weise (6) scores late in the 1st to make it a 2 goal game, but then Granlund (23 & 24) scores a pair of goals in the 2nd period en route to a Jagr 5-1 bludgeoning.

Granlund has a massive game (2g,2a) and Taylor Hall also shines (1g, 2a).

Scoring Summary
Per Time Str Team
1 12:37 EV JAG Gaborik (8), assisted by Elias Lindholm (24)
1 13:28 EV JAG Hall (18), assisted by Granlund (27) and Schultz (37)
1 14:49 EV JAG Nurse (4), assisted by Granlund (28) and Hall (38)
1 17:47 PP BWB Weise (6), assisted by Miller (15) and Vermette (14)
2 1:28 EV JAG Granlund (23), assisted by Oleksiak (3) and Vasilevskiy (4)
2 12:30 EV JAG Granlund (24), assisted by Hall (39) and Schultz (38)

Star 1: JAG Granlund 2 G, 4 Pts
Star 2: JAG Vasilevskiy 38 saves
Star 3: JAG Hall 1 G, 3 Pts

GWG: Taylor Hall

Notables: BWB None
JAG Vasilevskiy 38 saves, Staal 17 faceoffs won

Weekly Summary: Jagr stuns Brentwood at home to take 2 points; waiting to see what happens in the 3 road games this week.

Hampton Blizzard Hampton has a single home game this week facing Connor McDavid and the Bucks County Raccoons.
Bucks County Racoons @ Hampton Blizzard The first period was probably one that Jake Allen would like to forget.

Just two minutes in, a bad line change for the Raccoons led to Mikko Rantanen’s unmolested tip in off Shayne Gostisbehere’s point shot. Only 19 seconds later, Brayden Point registered his 11th goal of the season slipping the puck under the sprawling Raccoons’ goalie to make it 2-0 for Hampton. A late-period power play chance for the Raccoons went way wrong with Filip Forsberg stripping Connor McDavid of the puck at the blueline and sending Oliver Ekman-Larsson in alone on Allen for a wrist shot off the trapper for a rare short-handed goal and a 3-0 lead heading into the 2nd period.

Bucks County dominated the 2nd period, outshooting the Blizzard 12-7 including the period’s only goal – McDavid’s 20th on a slapper from just inside the faceoff circle that cleanly beat Carey Price to narrow the lead to 3-1.

The 3rd period was a scuffle-fest with players jostling after every whistle and refs only too willing to oblige their wishes for a rest in the box with five of the seven penalties called being for roughing after a play.

Hampton took advantage of a tripping penalty to Jaden Schwartz to make it 4-1 when Colton Sissons and Dylan Larkin somehow managed to sneak onto the ice during the power play when coach Scotty Bowman was not looking and the pair combined with Ekman-Larsson for a nifty give-and-go. It was Sissons 4th of the season.

It took 12 minutes of hammering the Hampton skaters for the Raccoons to get that goal back. Kyle Palmieri (16) made Price look bad, backhanding the puck over the Price who did his best impression of a salmon flopping around on a block of ice.

Bucks County poured it on the last few minutes with the keeper pulled, but it was Erik Johnson who had been impotent scoring-wise all season, but made no mistake sliding the puck into an open net to cement the 5-2 win.

Bucks County outshot Hampton 39-34.

Surging defenceman Ekman-Larsson earned 1st star honors for a goal and two assists, three blocked shots and two hits. Mikko Rantanen got the silver with a goal and an assist while Colton Sissons made a rare appearance on the podium with a goal, an assist, two blocks and two hits. Nice.

Weekly Summary: Hampton gets a nice home win with some good performances from the supporting cast against a pretty good but underachieving Bucks County team.

Clearfield Bison Sorry, busy this week, short writeups. Clearfield has been struggling a bit but looks to get well against two teams having a rough season.
Wausau Lumberjacks @ Clearfield Bison Wasau scores early, but Clearfield scores often. Dominating 5-1 win for the Bison, even with a spot start for Connor Hellebuyck.
Chicago Cosa Nostra @ Clearfield Bison Chicago scores with 6 seconds to go…that’s their only consolation in a 6-1 loss to Clearfield. The Bison had six different goal scorers.
Weekly Summary: Two dominant wins push Clearfield over 100 points and would seem to settle the division race.

LA Great Danes  
Columbus Brew Jackets @ LA Great Danes The Great Danes win 4-1
LA Great Danes @ Chicago Cosa Nostra Chicago beats LA 3-1
Weekly Summary: Well, I did write-ups but lost them, due to hotel connectivity, I guess. I can’t deal with starting over and re-doing, so the scores and file will have to do for this week.

Lakeland Flying Tigers Just one home game for Lakeland this block, against Gibert.
Gilbert Sharks @ Lakeland Flying Tigers Gilbert 3, Lakeland 1.

Not really a great game for either team. A lot of the game seemed to be played with missed passes and between the blue lines more than anything. the only outstanding player I felt for both teams was Rask, making some key saves down the stretch.

Weekly Summary: No points for the home team…wash, rinse, repeat. 🙂

Weekly Preview: 3 home games, time to get some points …. well maybe a couple please?
Lakeland Flying Tigers @ Bathgate Rangers Clearly Bathgate is trying to remain out of the cellar and Lakeland is hoping they can climb out of it. But after this game, it’s a bit more climb as Andres Nilsson stops all 31 shots fired by the Flying Tigers. Home team nets a goal in each period; Tierney (8), Hornqvist (15) and Staal (19). Staal assisted on the other 2 goals.
STARS (all BGR)
1. Nilsson 31 saves
2. Staal 1 goal, 2 assists
3. Hornqvist 1 goal, 1 assist
Long Beach Ice Dogs @ Bathgate Rangers Home team wasn’t as fortunate in this game as the Ice Dogs (who were outshot 40-30, beaten in scoring chances 30-11, creamed in face-offs 59%-41%) managed to outscore the Rangers 3-1, and that’s the key stat! Talbot got 1st star for stopping 39 shots, and a case of beer for basically winning the game near single handedly. But the offense did come through, Stamkos (4) getting the 1st goal in the 1st. It was matched by a late Killorn goal (16), but Skinner (42) scored with 7 seconds left in the 1st to make it 2-1 Long Beach. Then after a scoreless 2nd, Caggiula gets his first goal of the season at the middway point of period 3 to put the game away. Final 3-1 Ice Dogs
STARS (all LBD)
1. Talbot 39 saves
2. Skinner 1 goal, 1 assist
3. Stamkos 1 goal, 1 assist
Hampton Blizzard @ Bathgate Rangers Rangers try to get something against the Blizzard and wow – 17 seconds in, Shaw (12) gets it past Price for the QUICK 1-0 lead. Again the Rangers win the shots, face-offs, scoring chance (but not by the big margin of the previous game) but again the fall short in the scoring race. Point (11) ties it at 8:33. Trocheck (24) converts a takeaway for an unassisted goal midway through the 3rd and 12 seconds later Bjorkstrand (7) gets a great pass from Trocheck and scores the insurance goal as Bathgate suffers another 3-1 loss.
STARS (all HAM)
1. Trocheck 1 goal, 1 assist
2. Price 28 saves
3. Bjorkstrand 1 goal
Weekly Summary: 1-2 for the week, not good. Team has however gotten more defensive as the year has gone by. Looking forward to the next year when some new young blood arrives.

Columbus Brew Jackets Bottom to top, that’s the way to describe this week’s home schedule. Lakeland for one and Clearfield for the other. Jackets seek to overtake Brentwood while remaining in front of the late charging Mullets.
Lakeland Flying Tigers @ Columbus Brew Jackets A 3 goal third period settles the score in a 5-2 Columbus victory. And they did it with only 13 shots on goal. Totally outplayed by the the Flying Tigers, they were save by a net-minder, Johnson (28 saves) who didn’t even figure into the stars of the game.
Lakeland scored 1st on a SH goal from Henrique (12). Then Couture (23) tied 25 seconds later for a PP goal. Sheary (31) got a PP goal in the 2nd. Couture (24) got his 2nd goal then Hayes (7) got an unassisted goal for the 3rd Brew crew goal of the 2nd.
Domi (5) cut it to 4-2, but with an empty net staring him in the face, Kucherov (26) put it way away with a minute to go. 5-2 Columbus.
STARS
1. Couture 2 goals, 1 assist
2. Kucherov 1 goal, 4 points
3. Sheary 1 goal, 1 assist
Clearfield Bison @ Columbus Brew Jackets Let’s see a potential post-season match and how the Brew Jackets might do. NO – let’s just chalk this one up to putting on the pads and skating around for 60 minutes doing not much else. Jackets actually have a game where they outshoot their opponent – maybe that was their undoing. Or maybe it was that guy in the net – Craig Anderson – who records his 9th shutout! Or maybe Patrick Kane who scores 1 and sets up 2 more. Anyway you slice and dice it, the Bison rutted their way to a stellar 4-0 victory. Goals in the 1st, Doughty (5) and Edler (4). Kane (19) in the 2nd and Rakell (39) in the 3rd complete the thrashing.
STARS
1. Anderson 27 saves
2. Kane 1 goal, 2 assists
3. Doughty 1 goal
Weekly Summary: Brew Jackets win 1 lose 1, hope they do better on the road.

Bucks County Racoons One home game for the sinking Raccoons and a road game to assist a coach dealing with real life….
Bucks County Racoons @ Chicago Cosa Nostra In a rough and chippy game, the Bucks County Raccoons hung a goose egg on the Chicago Cosa Nostra and defeated the home town team by a score of 3-0. The Racs scored a goal in every period and killed 5 Chicago PP (one of them a 5 minute major) to secure the road win. Of the 10 penalties called in the game, 89 were called for either roughing, cross checking, boarding, or checking from behind. The Cosa Nostra do not go gently into that good night.
Toledo Walleye @ Bucks County Racoons Trying to generate some false optimism with their road win over Chicago, the Bucks Count Raccoons returned home and fell flat on their face, falling to the Toledo Walleyes by a score of 4-1. The Racs again killed off 5 opposition PP opportunities, but a balanced and efficient attack by Toledo which accounted for 2 goals in each of the 1st and 3rd periods proved to be the difference.
Weekly Summary: Finishing up with 7 of 9 on the road to end the season, the Racs goal of a .500 finish appear to be doomed after a split this week…..

Wausau Lumberjacks The lumberjacks will play Toledo,Corktown,and New Jersey.
Toledo Walleye @ Wausau Lumberjacks Toledo 3 Wausau 1
Star #1 Dubnyk
Star# 2 Anismov
Star # 3 Martin
Corktown Suds @ Wausau Lumberjacks Corktown 4 Wausau 3
Star # 1 Matthews
Star # 2 Tarasenko
Star # 3 Stone
New Jersey Grizzlies @ Wausau Lumberjacks New Jersey 3 Wausau 1
Star #1 Holtby
Star #2 Weber
Star# 3 Van Riemsdyk
Weekly Summary: Wausau goes 0-3 at home this block.

Alamo Defenders Alamo plays a slate of 3 games vs. LA, Brentwood, and Jagr.
LA Great Danes @ Alamo Defenders It’s been a great race between LA and Alamo for the division lead most of the season. This turned out to be a gem of a game. It was low scoring. In the 1st period, Marchand scores his 37th goal.

With 28 seconds to go, LA ties it on Schenn’s 23rd.

No goals in OT. In the shootout, LA dominates and scores twice, and the Defenders were shut down.

LA 2 Alamo 1

Alamo 47 shots to LA 31.

1st star – Andersen -46 saves
2nd star – Lehner -30 saves
3rd star -Schenn game tying goal.

Brentwood Bandits @ Alamo Defenders An excellent Bandits team invades the Alamo. Alamo struggles early and is down 2-1. In the 3rd, Alamo scores 4 unanswered goals. Lots of penalties in this game. Though, there was only one power play goal.

In the 3rd period, Alamo outshoots Brentwood,26-4 in a very dominant 3rd period. Overall, it was 51-26. In goal, Gibson has 46 saves.

Alamo 5 Brentwood 2

1st star – Vlasic
2nd star – Eaves
3rd star – Yandle

Jagr Mullets @ Alamo Defenders Jagr gets an early second period goal for Schultz. But, Alamo does the rest and scores 4 in a row to win. Marchand scores his 39th and 40th goals of the season.

Alamo 4 Jagr 1

1st star -Marchand
2nd star – Miller
3rd star – Pacioretty

Weekly Summary: Alamo loses a tough shootout to LA in the battle for 1st place. The Defenders rebound and beat tough Brentwood and Jagr teams.

Toledo Walleye The Walleye (40-25-6) host the Tigers from Lakeland (30-35-6) in the one Toledo home game this week.
Lakeland Flying Tigers @ Toledo Walleye Toledo 3, Lakeland 1 – Strong defensive effort by Toledo this week, holding the Tigers to only 6 scoring chances and stopping all 4 power play efforts by the visitors. Dell with a strong effort in goal with 19 of 20 saves.
1st star – Lindell 1g 1a
2nd star – Rieder 1g
3rd star – Letestu 1g
Weekly Summary: Toledo wins their one home game for the week and now hopes to have some success on the 3 road games in an effort to hold off the Deep Freeze heading to the end of the schedule.
Dell with a 1 goal victory, 95% saves. It is Dell’s 8th consecutive win.