2020-2021 PLAYER & GOALIE OF THE WEEK #4

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Chicago fights back valiantly, But are unable to tally until the last minute, when Saad and Pastrnak, each with the aid of an extra attacker, light the lamp. Chicago runs out of clock,a nd the game ends 4-3

1st star Chara 1G
2nd Virtanen 1G
3rd Meier 1G

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Coach Corrado must have had a good talk at intermission, because the Cosa Nostra come out and blow up 5 goals on the Braves who manage only one response. Chicago with goals from Dadonov, Pastrnak 2, Debrincat, Dubois. Yellowknife Malkin.

1st star – Pastrnak 2G 3 pts
2nd 2G
3rd 2 G

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2nd period saw a very subdued game compared to the 1st – 4 SOGs from NJ and 8 from Bathgate. The Rangers were winning the faceoff battles and that contributed to the Black Aces lack of attack in the 2nd, but other than that everything else pretty much ended even – game total SOGs were matched at 29, blocks – 16 per team, hits – the Rangers got 4 more hits (23-19).

So we go to the 3rd, NJ feeling they have a real good chance and they up their attack and actually lead for the period 11-8. However, their tempo opened a slight door. 5 minutes into the 3rd after Reimer stops a Forsberg shot, Hischier wins the faceoff and the Rangers clear their end. Up ice to Ryan Strome who passes it back to Hischier and wrist’s one past New Jersey’s goalie and scores what turns out to be the game only score! Rangers hold off the charging Black Aces including the final 1:16 with the extra attacker. Rangers had a big chance for an EN goal, but Sergachev makes a gutsy shot block off a Tatar shot. Then NJ goes on the attack. Cirelli to Thomas as the teams change lines. Cirelli takes it over the blue line and shots hoping for a rebound but Optimus Reim makes a great save and keeps it. Reimer makes another great save and then with 22 seconds to go, Kadri fires it and it’s OFF the post. Rangers clear it but NJ gets it back and gets another scoring chance but Sanheim blocks and they get no more opportunities. FINAL Bathgate 1 New Jersey 0
STARS
1. BGR – Reimer 29 saves
2. BGR – Hischier 1 goal
3. NJB – Hart 28 saves

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Ennis puts Gilbert up again in period 2 with a goal near the half way mark, while Francouz continues to get bombarded by the Walleye who throw 18 at him, and he is perfect, allowing the Sharks to go to intermission with a 2-1 lead.

Apparently the bombardment wore Francouz out, as he allows 3 goals in the 3rd period. Barrie, Backstrom and Trocheck, who is very happy to be on the Pettersson line, all tally in the period. On the other end, Gilbert gets 10 shots on Demko, but he is a wall, and keeps the light extinguished the entire period. Final 4-2 Walleye.

1st star – Backstrom 1G 2pts
2nd – Barrie 1G 2pts
3rd – Trochek 1G 2pts (Francouz 43 saves)

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Hoffman scores for Toledo, Soderberg answers for Chicago. Dadonov scores for Chicago, and Kempe answers for Toledo. 1st period ends 2-2

Chabot puts CHI up 3-2, Kucherov ties it at 3. Toews puts Chicago up 4-3, and the Walleye even it up when Trochek answers, 4-4.

Toledo goes up by 1 when Laughton scores with just over 2 minutes to go. Chicago pulls their goalie and bombard Binnington for a full minute before he taps out, allowing a goal by Hornqvist with only 22 seconds left.

Chicago gets the first chance in OT, but get stopped. After that, its all Walleye for about 3 minutes, until Mantha gets open close in and sends the home crowd home happy, 6-5.

1st star – Hoffman 1G 2pts
2nd – Laughton 1G 2pts
3rd – Mantha 1G 2pts

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For the 6th time in the short season to date, the Danes get blown out by 3 or more goals, this a 5-2 loss to the Bandits. LA started strong and held a 5-1 scoring chance advantage early, but Tavares scored twice late in the first, the 2nd one a back-breaker off a face-off win at 19:59. It was 5-1 before LA scored a garbage goal in the third.

Brentwood’s 3 stars were Tavares 2G, Eller 1G-1A, and Lehkonen 1G-1A. Another stinker in goal for Varlamov, pulled halfway through the game after giving up 4 goals on 15 shots, and he drops to a 1-5-0 record on the season.

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And what do you know, the Danes respond with a 6-1 route of Alamo, with Henrique scoring 3 minutes in and earning the game’s #1 star with 2G-1A. Varlamov gets the second star with 32 saves, Pietrangelo is a +3, and Nurse is a +2 and leads the D in ice-time while on the 3rd pairing.

It was 4-1 after one period, and while at the end it looks like LA coasted to victory, with our lack of success this year we were just waiting for an Alamo comeback, but it never came.

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LA gets up quickly at :24 on a goal by Brayden Schenn, but Brady Tkachuk scores his first of the season for Gilbert to tie the game, so it’s 1-1 after one in an evenly played period. In the second, Gilbert scores early (MacKinnon) and late (Coyle) to take a 3-1 lead after two, and once again it was an evenly played period except on the scoreboard.

LA gets some life early in the third with a Brayden Schenn PPG at 3:36. LA carries play most of the period and gets the tieing goal from William Nylander at 12:35.

The goalies come up big late in regulation, Scheifele stopped on a wide-open wraparound attempt with 2 minutes left, Schenn denied a hat trick on a scoring chance with 1:14 left, and Tkachuk’s scoring chance is stopped by Talbot shortly after that.

The Danes seem to have the better chances in OT, the last on another wraparound by Scheifele with 24 seconds left, but no scoring in OT.

The shootout ended quickly with Kubalik and MacKinnon scoring for Gilbert and Rask makes 2 saves, so Gilbert gets the 4-3 OT win.

Brayden Schenn for LA is the #1 star with 2G-1A with 7 scoring chances, and MacKinnon has 1G-1A for Gilbert. My 3rd star (not DK’s) would be Aleksander Barkov with 2 assists, 7 SOG, and winning 18 of 26 faceoffs.

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There was a lot of scoring in the 2nd period. Gusev scores his 1st goal of the year for Alamo. The Great Danes fight back with 2 goals scored by Henrique and Nurse. Crosby makes the deficit three goals as scores his 2nd goal of the game. Then, Henrique scores his 2nd goal of the year. At the end of 2, its 5-3, Alamo.

In the 3rd period, Stamkos and Gusev score their 2nd goals of the game, and the Defenders put the game away.

Alamo 7 LA 3

1st star – Gusev 2 goals, 2 assists
2nd star – Crosby 2 goals, 2 assists
3rd star – Stamkos 2 goals, 1 assist.

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Early 2nd period, Zibanejad (8) makes it 2-0 BCR.

A little over a minute later, Vatrano (2) scores to put the Bandits on the board, 2-1.

Go to the 3rd… a little over half way through the period, Josi (2) ties it up on a slapper from the point! 2-2

We go to OT…

Tavares with the faceoff win. Enters the zone, passes over to Josi, who one time shuffles the pass to Debrusk who one-times the puck… SCORES! Debrusk gets his 6th of the season and the OT Game winner!

Final
BWB 3, BCR 2 (OT)

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Bucks County notched the only goal it needed 41 seconds into the second period on a nifty transition goal: following Khudobin’s immediate save off Charlotte’s opening faceoff win, Raccoons forward Pierre Edoward-Bellemare fed Zdeno Chara a shot that the giant defenseman blasted from the point past Carey Price who never saw it; Drew Doughty also assisted. Buck County’s Patrick Kane added a goal two minutes later and Jimmy Vesey rounded out the scoring with an empty netter with 1:20 left in the third.

Three stars (all from Bucks County)
Star 1 – Khudobin
Star 2 -Chara one goal
Star 3 – Kane, one goal, three hits

Notable: In getting blanked by Khudobin, Charlotte outshot Bucks County in every period.

Bellemare had one assist along with two takeaways and two blocks in support of Khudobin

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After Burns’ unassisted goal 16:32 into the game put Charlotte out in front, Jack Eichel quickly responded with a demoralizing game-tying goal with one minute left in the first period, and Kyle Connor netted what proved to be the game winner just two minutes into the second. Mikko Koskinen (20 saves) played flawless in net the rest of the way for Thunder Bay, edging the hard luck Price (26 saves).

While killing off all 5 Thunder Bay power plays, Charlotte’s shorthanded status throughout much of the game thwarted its offensive chances.

Three stars
Star 1 -TBN Connor 1 goal
Star 2 -CHA Burns 1 G and 2 TK
Star 3 – TBN Eichel 1 goal

Notable:Sean Couturier and Filip Hronek each had assists for Thunder Bay.

Eichel scored his goal, right out of the sin bin, after being charged with a four minute high sticking penalty that led to the Burns power play goal.

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Charlotte never trailed after first period goals from Blake Coleman and Burns put the Buzzards ahead 2-0. Jake Allen recorded 24 saves for Charlotte.

Three stars:
Star 1 – CHA Alex Killorn (1 G 1 A)
Star 2 – CHA Coleman (1 G 1 A)
Star 3 – POR Mountour (1 G 1 A)

Notable: Braden Holtby saved 33 for Portland as Charlotte held the shot advantage 37-26. Gallagher’s goal came as Holtby was pulled in the midst of a roughing penalty by Charlotte’s Anders Lee; at the time it narrowed Portland’s deficit to 2-1.

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Star #1 – Forsberg 2 goals
Star #2 – Hartman 1 goal
Star #3 – Backlund 1 goal, 1 assist

Kadri accumulates 15 PIM for NJ

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