2018-2019 PLAYER & GOALIE OF THE WEEK #19

Final Score: Chicago 4 – Guentzel 3

3-Star Selection:
Star #1 – Yanni Gourde 2 Goals
Star #2 – David Pastrnak 1 Goal
Star #3 – Alex DeBrincat 1 Goal

Matt Dumba, 5 Block Shots, Patrice Bergeron 15 Face off wins & Roberto Luongo 31 Saves for the Gunners.
Josh Manson 6 Blocked Shots for the Cosa Nostra.

Final Score: Toledo 4 – Chicago 3

3-Star Selection:
Star #1 – Anthony Mantha 2 Goals
Star #2 – NicklasBackstrom 3 Assists
Star #3 – David Krejci 1 Goal

Nicklas Backstrom 3 Assists, Devan Dubnyk 31 Saves for the Walleye.
Thomas Chabot 5 Blocked Shots, Jonathan Toews 16 Fave off wins for the Cosa Nostra.

In the 3rd, Marchand scores his 30th goal. The Sharks get an insurance run as Atkinson scores is 25th goal.

Alamo outshoots Gilbert, 41-20.

Gilbert 4 Alamo 1

1st – Rask 40 saves
2nd – Henrique 2 points
3rd – Keller 2 points

Its 1-1 going into the 3rd.

Faulk scores his 8th and California goes up by 1. But, Alamo gets hot down the stretch. Wheeler scores his 18th and 19th. Then, Marchand scores the insurance goal on his 32nd goal of the year.

Alamo 4 California 2

1st-Marchand 2 goals and 2 assists
2nd – Wheeler 2 goals and 1 assist
3rd – Seguin 3 assists.

2nd period sees Cammalleri get his first of the year for Toledo, making it 4-0 just past the 6 minute mark. Daley penalty opens another chance for the visitors but they are unable to take advantage and the period wanders to the end with no more damage, 4-0 Toledo.

3rd period sees JVR take advantage of an aggresive Racoon attack gone wrong and skates unencumbered to score the 5th and last goal of the game at the 5 minute mark. McElhinney keeps the lamp unlit the rest of the way, ending up with 47 saves and no blemishes.

1st star – McElhinney 47 save shutout
2nd – Vanek 1g1a
3rd – van Riemsdyk 1g

The McElhinney shutout was player of the week.

Is this the week the season all but ends?

New Jersey netted the first goal just 2:27 in, when Viktor Hedman buried his 19th goal to start things. Before the period ended, David Perron slotted his 18th goal at 13:35 on the power play to knot hings at one apiece.

Cincinnati got both goals in the second to open a 3-1 lead. Cody Ceci converted a turnover breakaway goal, shorthanded, at 2:56 and then Sidney Crosby lit the lamp with his 18th goal at 8:34.

The Grizzlies wasted little time in the third getting back into it. Sven Andrighetto rifled home his fourth goal on the power play at 24 seconds to make it 3-2. Crosby’s second of the night at 9:44 on the power play made it a 4-2 game again.

Tkachuk’s second goal of the game (19th) at 9:44 on the power play gave a false sense of relief–as Cincinnati opened a three-goal lead. Twenty-two seconds after that, Travis Konecny netted his 15th on a rebound goal at 10:06 and New Jersey cut the lead to 5-3.
Crosby’s empty net goal at 19:25 completed the hat trick (20th goal) and let Cincinnati double up New Jersey, 6-3.

Crosby finished the game with four points (3-1-4), David Perron added three assists and Cocy Ceci had a goal and an assist. The shots favored Cincinnati, 33-26. Chances went the Inferno’s way as well, 21-5. Power plays went two-for-four for the Inferno and one-for-six for the Grizzlies.

Corey Crawford picked up the win with 23 saves, while Braden Holtby took the loss with 27 saves.

In the second period, the teams play conservatively, and the only goal of the period is a Mark Scheifele PPG at 13:41. After 2 periods, LA is up 2-0, and there’s only 10 scoring changes total in the game between the 2 teams.

In the 3rd, when Nick Bonino takes a 4-minutes cross checking penalty, Alamo looks to get back in the game, but Darnell Nurse gets a breakaway and scores a short-handed goal at 8:38. At this point, it seemed the only suspense would be whether Frederick Andersen can get the shutout. But Scottie Upshall gets Alamo on the board with exactly 3 minutes left, and Brad Marchand gets his 30th goal of the season at 19:16 and all of a sudden it’s a 3-2 game. But that’s all the scoring, and the Danes hold on for a 3-2 win.

Perreault gets Gilbert within a goal midway through the second, but the Danes respond with 2 goals a minute apart, by Hoffman and Lehkonen to take a 4-1 lead after 2.

No scoring in the third, and LA coasts to a 4-1 win over the Sharks. Frederick Andersen earns the #1 star with 43 saves.

Tavares (40) and Niederreiter (29) pull the Bandits within 2.

Head to the 2nd period…

Nothing. Evenly played. Goalies do their jobs.

Head to the 3rd… the Bandits climb back into it with Tavares getting his 2nd of the evening (41) and Backes potting his 10th with less than 3 minutes left!

4-4 tie as time winds down… Radulov (14) scores 18 seconds later to give the Mullets the lead again 5-4.

Brentwood throws everything at Gibson, but he shuts the door on his former team as the Jagoffs come to town and beat the good guys 5-4.

Star 1 Ovechkin 2G, 1A
Star 2 Tavares 2G
Star 3 Radulov 1G, 2A

Ryan Ellis also contributes some big offense from the blueline.

Scoring Summary
Per Time Str Team
1 9:46 EV JAG Hall (32), assisted by Elias Lindholm (11) and Ellis (26)
1 15:31 EV JAG Ellis (4), unassisted
2 14:54 EV BGR Provorov (17), assisted by Klingberg (51) and Zibanejad (19)
3 2:12 PP JAG Radulov (15), assisted by Nash (10) and Hainsey (2)

Star 1: JAG Ellis 1 G, 2 Pts
Star 2: JAG Gibson 29 saves
Star 3: JAG Hall 1 G

GWG: Ryan Ellis

Notables: BGR Zibanejad 16 faceoffs won, Halak 34 saves
JAG Letang 6 blocks

Gibson you suck (reverse psychology…)

Scoring Summary
Per Time Str Team
1 7:00 PP LAF Ristolainen (6), assisted by Bozak (22) and Hanifin (23)
1 15:42 EV JAG Ovechkin (38), assisted by Radulov (58)
2 1:27 EV JAG Ovechkin (39), assisted by Schultz (4) and Letang (35)
2 2:52 EV LAF Perlini (16), assisted by Shattenkirk (21) and Labanc (37)
2 3:08 EV JAG Kadri (28), assisted by Ellis (27) and Radulov (59)
2 4:05 EV LAF Gostisbehere (7), assisted by Forsberg (41) and Dadonov (33)
2 6:21 PP LAF Duchene (35), unassisted
2 13:19 EV LAF Dadonov (22), assisted by Forsberg (42) and Eichel (42)

Star 1: JAG Ovechkin 2 G
Star 2: LAF Dadonov 1 G, 2 Pts
Star 3: LAF Gostisbehere 1 G

GWG: Matt Duchene

Notables: LAF Jones 34 saves, Ristolainen 6 blocks
JAG None

The Rangers defenseman Klingberg gets 4 assists in this game and sparks a 3 goal 2nd period but it is not enough as Forsberg’s 38th goal of the season in the 3rd ties it up. And then, in a heart breaker, Dadonov scores with 5 SECONDS left to grab the game away from the home team and put a dagger in the hearts of the Rangers faithful. It was Dadonov’s 2nd goal of the game!
STARS:(all LAF)
1.Dadonov 2 goals
2.Eichel 1 goal, 1 assist
3.Forsberg 1 goal, 1 assist
But Klingberg’s 4 assists real way up there! As were Geogiev’s 43 saves as the Homesteaders just kept pouring it on, closing with 20 SOGs in the 3rd (and 70 attempts in the game).

Rangers build a 2 goal lead starting with Ferland’s goal a minute into the 2nd. Then Zadorov scores 6 minutes later. But the Bandits aren’t in 1st place for nothing as former Ranger Patric Hornqvist scores a PP goal less than a minute after falling behind 2-0. Less than 30 seconds later, Backes ties it up and then Hornqvist puts his 2nd goal in to spank his old teammates and make it 3-2. That was all the scoring as Vasilevskiy and Halak shut down the offenses.
STARS:
1. BWB – Hornqvist 2 goals
2. BWB – Backes 1 goal
3. BGR – Zadorov 1 goal

Then at 7 minutes into the 3rd – one of those Brentwood scoring chances turned into a Neiderreiter goal. From then on it was who was going to get the next (if anyone) goal. Well, with 3 minutes to go, it happened, a GOAL – and it was Hornqvist converting one of those limited scoring chances into a 2-0 lead. Vasilevskiy held firm – stopping 40 SOGS in the game (31 of them in the last 2 periods) as Brentwood wins 2-0.
STARS (All BWB)
1. Vasilevskiy shutout, 40 saves
2. Niederreiter 1 goal
3. Hornqvist 1 goal

2nd Period Ferland scores a PP goal with just under 4 to go. Then the Brew Jackets responds with 2 goals in the 1st minute of the 3rd – Kuherov and Johnson. Miller scores a 3rd Columbus goal 2 minutes later and suddenly they have a 3-1 lead. But the Rangers haven’t thrown in the towel and Wood and Zibanejad each score at the halfway point to tie it up.

Final 2 minutes game tied 3-3. Going to overtime, right? Well.
kempe scores and it 4-3 Columbus. 35 seconds later Jankowski scores for Bathgate to tie it back up, 4-4. Going to overtime, right? Well.
40 seconds left, Brew Jackets with a line change, Brodziak gets it over the blue line, Rangers gain control, but then lose it to Miller, he quickly fires one on Halak and Miller wins the battle for a goal and a 5-4 lead and that’s the final.

8 goals in the 3rd period – 5 by the home team to please the fans.
STARS:
1. CBJ – Miller 2 goals
2. BGR – Zibanejad 1 goal, 1 assist
3. CBJ – Kucherov 1 goal