Post-Game Talk: {AHL} Utica Comets (5 - 4) Laval Rocket

[Adam Michaels]

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Teddy toss night as soon as Rocket scores their first goal.

I just got home from work so I didn't get a chance to make a GDT for Laval's game that is televised again today.

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[Tyson]

Same stuff, different year in as the Habs AHL farm teams just don’t have the horses and don’t measure up.

Every team gets call ups and Laval just got two NHL pieces on D but they just don’t have what it takes. Sad to watch

 

[Adam Michaels]

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Same stuff, different year in as the Habs AHL farm teams just don’t have the horses and don’t measure up.

Every team gets call ups and Laval just got two NHL pieces on D but they just don’t have what it takes. Sad to watch

That's the thing. The rocket have good AHL pieces, they're just not winning.

Shinkaruk is a decent AHLer, Grenier usually gets 40+ points. Evans should do well(and is) for us. McCarron should be a decent player for us.

A lot of players are playing below what they're normally able to. If we suck, but develop our young guys, then it's a win, but a winning culture helps, too.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Let it rain! Laval ties it and the teddy toss begins!

 

[Adam Michaels]

 

[Adam Michaels]

Laval headed to the PP.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Nice play there between Audette, Evans, and Alzner, but Bachman makes the save.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Laval is deadlier on the shorthanded than when on the PP.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Utica makes it 2-1 on the PP. Lindgren just made an amazing save. But the puck stayed in the zone and they were able to score on a rebound.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Laval ties it 2-2. Culkin picks up a beautiful feed from McCarron from behind the net.

Two assists for McCarron today. I've liked Culkin since they called him up from Maine. I think Plant needs to be sent to the ECHL.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Oh man, Shinkaruk pulled a Deslauriers. Beautifully set up on the side of the net with it wide open and he sends it through the crease instead.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Laval's taken over the game after Culkin's goal.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Utica makes it 3-2 with 35 seconds left in the second period. Right off the face-off, McEwan takes a sweet wrister through a lot of bodies to the top corner. Lindgren was pretty much screened by everyone who was battling off the face-off.

And Laval will get a PP with 5 seconds left. They'll be starting the third with the man advantage.

 

[dinodebino]

Laval ties it 2-2. Culkin picks up a beautiful feed from McCarron from behind the net.

Two assists for McCarron today. I've liked Culkin since they called him up from Maine. I think Plant needs to be sent to the ECHL.

So Macauley remorphed into a hockey player, eh...interesting experiment.

 

[Adam Michaels]

 

[Adam Michaels]

PP GOAL FINALLY!!!!!

Shinkaruk deflects a McCarron shot and they tie the game.

That makes 3 assists for McCarron.

 

[Tyson]

PP GOAL FINALLY!!!!!

Shinkaruk deflects a McCarron shot and they tie the game.

That makes 3 assists for McCarron.

Maybe McCarron needed someone like Bouchard to help him round out his game

 

[Adam Michaels]

Maybe McCarron needed someone like Bouchard to help him round out his game

He's one we can see that Bouchard has had an impact on. It also helped that McCarron worked on his skating this off-season. In the AHL, you can see the difference. We don't notice it much in the NHL. But at this level, you can tell.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Oh man, Jevpalovs gets robbed by Bachman point blank. Mete with a beautiful set up there as he went deep into the offensive zone and behind the goal's red line.

 

[LyricalLyricist]

He's one we can see that Bouchard has had an impact on. It also helped that McCarron worked on his skating this off-season. In the AHL, you can see the difference. We don't notice it much in the NHL. But at this level, you can tell.

Was about to say the clips show him with some decent speed for a big man.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Was about to say the clips show him with some decent speed for a big man.

His endurance is also improved.

 

[LyricalLyricist]

His endurance is also improved.

To bad it seems like his stats haven't. 23 years old with .5 ppg in AHL isn't very promising, snakebitten PP or not.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Bachman with another big save on Jevpalovs. A great play by Evans and Froese to set Jevpalovs up.

And just before that play, Lindgren with a huge save.

 

[Adam Michaels]

To bad it seems like his stats haven't. 23 years old with .5 ppg in AHL isn't very promising, snakebitten PP or not.

Yea, the points haven't always been there. But even in games where he doesn't produce, you notice him out there with his physicality and his long reach helping in the forecheck. There are games he's invisible, as well.

But overall, a good season by McCarron.