2019-2020 PLAYER & GOALIE OF THE WEEK #20

Unfortunately for them, the Mullets score 4 at even strength and add an empty netter to take the game 5-2.

Ovechkin pots a pair while Morgan Rielly continues his Norris campaign in racking up a pair of assists to go with his +3.

Scoring Summary
Per Time Str Team
1 18:21 EV JAG Lindholm (28), assisted by Parise (17)
2 3:14 EV JAG Ovechkin (54), unassisted
2 15:40 EV JAG Ovechkin (55), assisted by Bergeron (59) and Rielly (44)
2 18:13 PP ALA Stamkos (40), assisted by Wheeler (61) and Marchand (52)
3 3:54 EV JAG Matthews (29), assisted by Rielly (45)
3 7:22 PP ALA Marchand (34), assisted by Ekblad (17) and Stamkos (28)
3 19:06 EN JAG Couture (21), assisted by Lindholm (37) and Bergeron (60)

Scoring Summary
Per Time Str Team
1 18:21 EV JAG Lindholm (28), assisted by Parise (17)
2 3:14 EV JAG Ovechkin (54), unassisted
2 15:40 EV JAG Ovechkin (55), assisted by Bergeron (59) and Rielly (44)
2 18:13 PP ALA Stamkos (40), assisted by Wheeler (61) and Marchand (52)
3 3:54 EV JAG Matthews (29), assisted by Rielly (45)
3 7:22 PP ALA Marchand (34), assisted by Ekblad (17) and Stamkos (28)
3 19:06 EN JAG Couture (21), assisted by Lindholm (37) and Bergeron (60)

It’s actually a tight game until the last minute – the Mullets hold a 3-2 lead but then score a pair of empty-netters in the final minute to make it look like a laugher.

Morgan Rielly piles on 3 more assists (+2) and Ovie is held to only a single helper. Svechnikov also pots one, giving advance notice that he is going to be a force to reckon with next season.

It was a crazy 1st period with 5 total goals and each team scored on their first shot of the game and each team goes 1-1 on the power play. The Danes lead 3-2 after one, and then it’s a scoreless 2nd period, although Chicago outshoots LA 16-7 in the 2nd.

In the third, the Cosa Nostra’s dirty tactics backfire as they take 3 straight penalties in the first half of the period, and LA finally makes them pay on the final PP on a deflection goal by Nikolaj Ehlers. The Danes keep the momentum the rest of the way and win 4-2, outshooting Chicago 16-1 part-way through the period and 20-11 for the 3rd period in total – also a 12-1 scoring chance advantage in the 3rd.

No points this time for Pasta – minus 1, 2 PIM, and 4 giveaways. Scheifele led LA with 1G-1A and Andersen with 39 saves.

The Danes dominated the faceoffs with a 72% rate through 2 periods, but they lose the opening face-off in the 3rd and Toledo quickly takes the lead 29 seconds in on a goal by Van Riemsdyk. Both teams had some great scoring chances the rest of the way, but Toledo hangs on for the 2-1 road win.

The 3 stars for Toledo challenge my spelling skills – Pettersson (having an amazing MWHL year with 93 points), Dubnyk, and Van Riemsdyk.

Brayden Schenn went into beast mode for the game’s first goal – in one power play sequence, Schenn hits the post, is stopped on 2 succeeding wrap around attempts, and later in the PP scores the wrap around goal. Matt Duchene ties the game shortly after that, but then LA gets another PPG, this time from Mark Scheifele. Early in the 2nd, Kucherov ties the game, and there is no more scoring the rest of the way. After a scoreless overtime, we go to the shootout. In round one Kucherov scores and Scheifele hits the post. But Varlamov stops Eichel and Forsberg, and Benn and Teravainen beat Martin Jones, so the Great Danes come away with a 3-2 shootout win. Varlamov was the #1 star for LA with 41 saves, with Schenn for LA and Duchene for Lafayette being the other 2 stars. LA wins the PK battle – after LA goes 2-2 on the PP in the first, the Danes take 4 straight penalties but kill them all.

Travis Konecny (27) scores first for the Bandits, 1-0.

But Cali gets 2 from Stone (37) and Dal Colle (1) in the last 3 minutes to take a 2-1 lead heading into the 2nd.

Konecny completes the HT (28, 29) and Horvat (13) adds one as the Bandits win 4-2.

Only ONE penalty all game, and the Bandits capitalized with the PP goal.

Goligoski (4), Soderberg (4), and Kuznetsov (7) score the the Braves.

Hjalmarsson (1) and Konecny (30) score for the Bandits.

A high scoring affair sees the Bandits go up 2-1, then 5-2… only to see the Raccoons come back and tie the game in the 3rd, 5-5.

We head to OT where one of last years playoff heroes, Kerfoot (19), plays OT hero and sends the crowd home happy with a very entertaining OT win, 6-5!

Travis Konecny scores 6 goals and adds an assist in his bid for Player of the Week.

Sidney Crosby’s goal 34 seconds into the game opened the floodgates in Cincinnati’s win, as the Inferno scored four in the first and then held on.

Jeff Skinner and Crosby each had a goal and an assist and Casey DeSmith stopped 18 shots in the win.

Paul Byron’s goal with 1:26 to go proved to be the game winner. Sidney Crosby added an empty netter to seal the victory.

The game proved to be one of the cleanest of the season, as just three minor penalties were called–allowing for ONE power play for the night.

Three stars all from Charlotte:
Star 1: Alex Tuch (two goals early in the game)
Star 2: Larkin (two goals and three points total)
Star 3: Burns (the game winning goal and three points total)

Notables: Charlotte finally wins a game where it has a shooting advantage, 41-35. Jones has 35 saves and plays well early before the roof caves in at the end.

Three Stars:
Star 1: Tarasenko, 1 goal 2 points
Star 2: Tuch 1 goal 2 points
Star 3: Toledo’s James van Riemsdyk 1 goal 2 points

Notables: Charlotte has the clear shot advantage over Toledo, 49-25, and forces Walleye netkeeper Jordan Bennington to make 43 saves. Dylan Larkin wins 18 faceoffs for the Buzzards.

Guentzel starts the scoring from Zuccarello (12) in the first but Gilbert gets goals from Savard (5) in the second and Danualt (7) in the third to escape with the win

Genutzel jumps to a 1-0 lead after the first period but Bathgate scores 3 goals in the third period to win 4-3 including one with 48 seconds left and the game winner 17 seconds later