Trenin is a lot faster than last year. Our defensemen can actually skate and pass!
I didn't think that Matt Donovan was stellar on defense, but he had a nice PP goal at the end of period one. Filip Pyrochta has a wicked wrist shot.
Fred Allard had 2 assists. Carrier looked steady on defense, just like last year. Jarred Tinordi is a big defenseman at 6-6.
You saw the Tolvanen goal in the post by King Weber. A nice simple play for a score. He made a few tough passes in traffic tonight. Jeremy Gregoire was in a small fight. I didn't see what started it other than Tyler Lewington seemed to say something to him at the far blue line. The Trenin goal came from an Allard shot that went off the end boards. Trenin spun and flipped it at the net to make another rebound and it went into the net. The Ads scored 2 goals in period one and three in period two in a 5-1 win over the hapless Hershey Bears who were out skated by Milwaukee in periods 2 and 3. Washington will be disappointed if they call up any of the Bears. I am not surprised that they are 0-4 when their defense consists of smacking the puck carrier with sticks and shoving players without the puck from behind.
Troy Grosenick stopped 24 of 25 shots and the other one was lucky.
The starters were Yakov Trenin centering Justin Kirkland on the left and newcomer Mathieu Olivier on the right. Jerrod Tinordi and Alexandre Carrier were the D-men. IIRC, Carrier was on the right.
The team looks faster than last season. The D looked much better, but last year's was kind of dismal. The offense isn't in sync, yet they put in 5!
The PP was 1 of 4. That needs some work. One played kept refusing to shoot from the circle. That drives me crazy! I think it was Connor Brickley, who assisted on Nicholas Baptiste's goal, the final one for the Admirals.
The attendance was 6300, all of whom were out in the concourse whenever I was.