2020-2021 PLAYER & GOALIE OF THE WEEK #20

Final Score: Portland 3 – Chicago 1

Labatt’s 3-Star Selection:

Star 1: POR – Rickard Rakell 1G, 2Pts
Star 2: POR – Taylor Hall 1G, 2Pts
Star 3: POR – Carter Hutton 27 Saves

GWG: Nikita Zaitsev

Notables:
POR – Matt Niskanen 6 Blocked Shots
CHI – Jonathan Toews 15 Faceoff Wins

Both teams clamp down on defense and despite 24 SOG between them in the 2nd, Reimer and Allen give up nothing. In fact, neither will give up another goal in the game. Tavares’s 3rd goal comes in the closing minute into an empty net – Hertl and DeAngelo made sure Tavares would get that Hat Trick! FINAL 3-1 Rangers
STARS (all BGR)
1. Tavares 3 goals
2. Reimer 31 saves
3. Hertl 3 assists

Period 2 – but the Inferno spent some quality time in the locker room during the intermission and came out scoring the equalizer 25 seconds into the period. Then Carlson scores 4 minutes later giving Cincinnati the 2-1 lead. BUT the Rangers then get a PP goal by Pionk 7 minutes in to retie the game and then Hertl gets his 2nd shorthanded goal with 2 minutes to go. BUT this time, the Inferno finally get a PP goal when Kurcherov scores at 18:22. Then he scores again 51 seconds later giving the Inferno a 4-3 lead as the period ends!! That was basically 3 goals in a 73 second span.

THIRD PERIOD – teams tighten up and it’s still 4-3 Cincinnati going into the final minute – couldn’t ask for much more – Bathgate pulls the goalie, and piles on the attack, but Carlson breaks up a play and fires one down toward the Bathgate goal and with 13 seconds left he puts the game away with the empty netter for a 5-3 Cincinnati win. Of the 8 goals in this game only 3 were your basic EV strength goal. 2 PP, 2 SH, 1 EN!
STARS:
1. CIN Carlson 2 goals
2. CIN Kucherov 2 goals
3. BGR Hertl 2 goals

LA continued its shot and scoring change advantage in period 2, but the teams swap goals – Nylander for LA and Copp for Chicago, and the Danes trail 2-1 heading to the 3rd period.

It took nearly the whole 3rd period, but LA finally solves Blackwood at the end with late goals by Ehlers and Nurse. Miro Heiskanen finishes it with an empty netter, and LA wins 4-2.

Blackwood finishes with 46 saves, but Nylander 1G-1A, Scheifele 3A, and Ehlers 1G are the three stars.

Toledo dominates the early part of the 3rd, outshooting LA 8-1, but LA takes a 4-3 lead on a goal by Roope Hintz. JG Pageau ties it up with 5 minutes left, and we end regulation at 4-4.

In the OT, Mark Scheifele sends the home fans home happy with the game-winner. Another win for LA, this a 5-4 victory in overtime.

For the second straight game, Nylander and Scheifele are the game’s first 2 stars, each with 1G-1A, and Niklas Backstrom is the 3rd star with 1G-1A for Toledo. Honorable mention to Jonas Brodin of the Great Danes, with a +5 rating, 3 takeaways, 3 blocks, and an assist on the OT game winner.

The Danes were a bit better in the 2nd, but no scoring and Jersey continues to lead 1-0 heading into the 3rd.

But the Danes open the 3rd on the power play, and once again it’s the Scheifele/Nylander combo that comes through for the Danes. A PPG goal by Scheifele assisted by Nylander 57 seconds into the 3rd ties the game. The Black Aces regain the lead on a Nazem Kadri goal, but Brock Boeser breaks free and ties the game at 2 on a breakaway with 7 minutes left.

The Danes then cap off the homestand in style as Aleksander Barkov scores the winning goal with just 11 seconds left. Boeser with 1G-1A is the #1 star, and Barkov and Scheifele are the other stars with their goals.

Jake Guentzel had a pair of first period power play goals to account for all the scoring in this one. David Perron had assists on each of the goals.

The Inferno went two-for-three on the power play and blanked the Walleye in three attempts. In a tightly-contested defensive game, the Infeerno won the shots battle, 20-14.

Connor Hellebuyck stopped all 14 shots faced and Jordan Binnington had 18 saves.

Max Pacioretty’s hat trick propelled Cincinnati to the win. Nikita Kucherov had assists on all of his goals, as the Inferno tallied empty net goals six seconds apart late to seal the contest.

Cincinnati once again played the lockdown defense, winning the shots battle, 23-15 and limiting the Bandits to a single second period shot. Connor Hellebuyck turned away 14 shots and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 19 in the loss.

1 2 3 F
2020-21 Gilbert 39-29-0-7 0 1 2 3
2020-21 Portland 11-54-0-8 0 1 1 2

Scoring Summary
Per Time Str Team
2 5:23 EV POR Palat (14), assisted by Granlund (16)
2 17:30 EV GIL Burakovsky (11), assisted by Thornton (11) and Hedman (51)
3 :34 EV GIL Panarin (35), assisted by MacKinnon (52)
3 4:20 EV POR Zuccarello (16), assisted by Backlund (15) and Rakell (22)
3 19:03 EV GIL MacKinnon (31), assisted by Panarin (49) and Krug (41)

Penalty Summary
Per Time Team
1 5:04 GIL Danault (32), 2:00 – cross checking
1 14:48 GIL Makar (20), 2:00 – roughing
1 14:48 POR Farabee (8), 2:00 – roughing
1 17:37 GIL Tyler Ennis (18), 2:00 – roughing
1 17:37 POR Brown (18), 2:00 – roughing
2 5:41 POR Rakell (12), 2:00 – roughing
2 14:16 POR Farabee (10), 2:00 – holding
3 5:12 GIL Tkachuk (91), 2:00 – roughing

SOG 1 SOG 2 SOG 3
Gilbert 6 11 8
Portland 9 6 12

GIL POR
SOG 25 27
FOW 28 20
FO% 58.3 41.7
Hits 28 24
Blocks 12 13
Missed Net 21 17
Shot Attempts 59 56
Scoring Chances 19 5
PIM 8 8
PP 0-2 0-2
TOA 4:18 5:27

Star 1: GIL Panarin 1 G, 2 Pts
Star 2: GIL MacKinnon 1 G, 2 Pts
Star 3: GIL Burakovsky 1 G

GWG: Nathan MacKinnon

Notables: GIL None
POR None

Gilbert GA SV Save% TOI W L OL Rate
G Rask -W 2 25 .926 60:00 26 15 4 9.8 (+1.1)

Portland GA SV Save% TOI W L OL Rate
G Holtby -L 3 22 .880 59:48 7 35 3 5.7 (+0.2)

1 2 3 F
2020-21 Bathgate 44-24-0-5 1 3 2 6
2020-21 Portland 11-55-0-8 1 3 0 4

Scoring Summary
Per Time Str Team
1 11:54 PP BGR Zibanejad (56), assisted by Provorov (22) and DeAngelo (45)
1 14:30 PP POR Niskanen (3), unassisted
2 :48 SH BGR Giroux (19), assisted by Hertl (22)
2 3:57 PP POR Graves (3), assisted by Taylor Hall (18) and Domi (26)
2 4:23 EV POR Palat (15), assisted by Granlund (17) and Graves (3)
2 10:41 PP POR Taylor Hall (10), assisted by Domi (27)
2 11:30 EV BGR McCann (8), assisted by Grimaldi (19) and Sanheim (15)
2 16:29 EV BGR Tavares (27), assisted by Hertl (23)
3 6:17 EV BGR Hertl (22), assisted by Tavares (37) and Pionk (32)
3 14:19 EV BGR Grimaldi (11), assisted by Ryan Strome (28) and McCann (6)

Penalty Summary
Per Time Team
1 10:08 POR Domi (48), 2:00/10:00 – tripping + misconduct
1 12:42 BGR Tavares (26), 2:00 – hooking
2 :13 BGR Tatar (38), 4:00 – roughing
2 4:45 POR Schultz (4), 2:00 – roughing
2 8:41 BGR Buchnevich (18), 2:00 – hooking
3 16:09 POR Murphy (6), 2:00 – roughing

SOG 1 SOG 2 SOG 3
Bathgate 15 11 16
Portland 10 18 11

BGR POR
SOG 42 39
FOW 35 31
FO% 53.0 47.0
Hits 28 22
Blocks 9 17
Missed Net 10 9
Shot Attempts 69 57
Scoring Chances 26 10
PIM 8 16
PP 1-3 3-4
TOA 5:05 6:10

Star 1: BGR Hertl 1 G, 3 Pts
Star 2: BGR McCann 1 G, 2 Pts
Star 3: BGR Grimaldi 1 G, 2 Pts

GWG: Tomas Hertl

Notables: BGR Halak 35 saves
POR Holtby 36 saves, Domi 12 PIM

Bathgate GA SV Save% TOI W L OL Rate
G Halak -W 4 35 .897 60:00 22 9 3 7.6 (-0.6)

Portland GA SV Save% TOI W L OL Rate
G Holtby -L 6 36 .857 60:00 7 36 3 6.3 (+0.8)

Alex Iafallo accounted for the Buzzards’ second and third goals to put the home team ahead 3-1 by early in the second period and Alex Killorn and Bryan Rust added insurance goals later in the game.

The only scoring the Black Aces could muster against Jake Allen was an even strength goal at 3:32 of the second from Kevin Shatterkirk and assisted by Ryan McDonagh and Anthony Cirelli. It gave New Jersey life and narrowed the deficit to 2-1 before Charlotte pulled away.

The difference was Toledo’s Anthony Mantha and Elias Pettersson both slipping pucks past Allen in the shootout, while the true star of the game, Jordan Binnington shut out Jon Marchessault and Rust — this after recording 41 saves during the contest.

Goals by Vince Trocheck and Mantha had lifted the Walleye to a 2-1 lead in regulation; a goal by Charlotte’s Ryan Dzingel with 7:59 left in the third closed the scoring as the teams remained deadlocked through the rest of regulation.