Post-Game Talk: {AHL} Laval Rocket 3 - 1 Rockford IceHogs: Solid Performance for the 1st Win of the Season

[Adam Michaels]

News & Notes

- Cayden Primeau will get the start.

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[Adam Michaels]

Translation: Peca will miss today's game due to injury. Joe Cox and Michael Pezzetta will play their first games of the season. Aside from Peca, it remains to be seen who Pezzetta will replace. Or if they will play with 13 forwards.



Translation: We'll have to wait at least until Wednesday to see McCarron and Juulsen play.



Translation: Rockford will have a few interesting players in their line-up. Kirby Dach (2019 3rd Overall Pick) is on a conditioning stint after recovering from concussion. Fortin and Beaudin (two of their top prospects) are playing. As well as Adam Boqvist.

Note: Dach is on a conditioning stint. But once that stint is over, Hawks need to decide if he plays in the NHL or return him to Junior. He can only play AHL on a conditioning stint.

 

[1909]

A first win could be welcomed.

 

[montreal]

I hope they win and hope Primeau has a big game again, but if not I still wouldn't be concerned as hockey players are creatures of habit mostly and a 2 pm game on a Monday is very far from what they are used to. That said they need to be fired up at starting so poorly and start scoring some damn goals.

 

[JuJu Mobb]

Our farm club was better when we were sharing with Dallas.

 

[montreal]

Our farm club was better when we were sharing with Dallas.

our last good season was under Guy Boucher in '09-'10. They won 52 games that year (52-17-11)

 

[montreal]

lines,

Varone Evans Barber
Hudon Poehling Belzile
Jevpalovs Vejdemo Cox
Pezzetta Lynch Weise

Leskinen Ouellet
Olofsson Larmarche
Alzner Brook


Primeau

 

[montreal]

Wonder how much Molson likes paying 6.375M in salary to Alzner/Weise to play on Laval's 4th line and bottom pairing.

 

[Runner77]

Translation: ... Fortin and Beaudin (two of their top prospects) are playing. ...

In the French version, Marcotte precedes the names Fortin and Beaudin with "les Québécois". I see that he has the same reporting style as TVA Spanre.

 

[1909]

lines,

Varone Evans Barber
Hudon Poehling Belzile
Jevpalovs Vejdemo Cox
Pezzetta Lynch Weise

Leskinen Ouellet
Olofsson Larmarche
Alzner Brook


Primeau

Poehling with two capable wingers.

 

[1909]

Our farm club was better when we were sharing with Dallas.

Wasn't it Edmonton ?

 

[Holystik]

I'm really craving for a win. I would love our farm team to imprint a winning mentality on our younger prospects. I hope the wins will start coming soon, this should be a playoff team dang it.

 

[Dagistitsyn]

Has Juulsen been cleared yet

 

[montreal]

Wasn't it Edmonton ?

both, oilers first year, dallas 2nd year. Trevor Daley, Dan Ellis, etc.. were loaned to us.

 

[Adam Michaels]

I just got in from work. So I missed the first period. But after one period, Rockford is up 1-0. Shots were 14-7 for Laval. I don't know how they looked, though.

There are only three teams in the AHL who have yet to register a win. Laval and Rockford are two of the three (San Diego Gulls being the third (Anaheim's AHL affiliate, where Sylvain Lefebvre serves as assistant coach)). So today, at least one of Rockford and Laval will have one win.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Has Juulsen been cleared yet

Yes he has. But they want him to get some more practices before Bouchard puts him in the line-up. Same goes for McCarron. Laval's next game is on Wednesday, so maybe they will play then.

 

[Adam Michaels]

In the French version, Marcotte precedes the names Fortin and Beaudin with "les Québécois". I see that he has the same reporting style as TVA Spanre.

Yea. I purposely left that part out as, I'm sure you would agree, is pointless to mention it. But I agree, as much as I like Marcotte, he does take every opportunity to mention it when it's un Québécois.

 

[montreal]

Laval looks like shit, it's like one team is awake and other not as Laval is playing sloppy.

Primeau kept them in it so far, the one goal he gave up you want him to save that one but it was from a prime scoring area that the shooter should never have been that open from there.

Evans has been their best player so far, you can tell he looks quicker then last year. He had a good chance to score at the end of the 1st but the goalie made a nice save. I keep seeing posters calling for Poehling to be called up but to me it would be Evans over him as Poehling just doesn't look right at all, must have some lingering effects as he looked terrible. He skated into the offensive zone and just fell down, I don't even know what the heck happened.

Brook with at least one good and bad play. He made a nice defensive play early on and then for some unknown reason he tried to pass the puck to the front of the net, just a poor decision there that could have been costly.

Many players look like they are asleep though.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Good start for Laval in the second. A counter attack started by Poehling. Two scoring chances followed because of his one entry.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Laval continuing to apply the pressure.

 

[Adam Michaels]

GOAL!!!! Belzile with a beauty on the PP.

Ouellet with an assist.

 

[Runner77]

GOAL!!!! Belzile with a beauty on the PP.

Ouellet with an assist.

There he is -- our next call up -- Belzile.

 

[1909]

How come is it so hard for Laval to score goals ?

 

[montreal]

looks like Bouchard gave it to them during the intermission as they looked awake for sure. That PP only went in because the rockford player tipped into his own end, hopefully that gets the offense going though since goals have been so hard to come by.

 

[Adam Michaels]

The 4th line of Pezzetta, Lynch, and Weise with a great shift controlling it deep in the offensive zone. Rockford was saved by the net being moved.