Post-Game Talk: {AHL} Laval Rocket @ Utica Comets (The Losses Are Piling Up: Laval Loses 3-2)

[Adam Michaels]

News & Notes

- Cayden Primeau will get the start.

- Michael McNiven will be the back-up. Meaning Keith Kinkaid will not dress tonight.

- The Laval Rocket signed Yannick Veilleux to an AHL deal for the rest of the year after signing him to a PTO.

- Antoine Waked will play. Michael Pezzetta will sit out.

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[ahmedou]

Let's make this official... Play the best players. No freakin favoritism (ever again). I want their lines combos to be top. This is the winning formula after all.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Posted the line-up in the OP.

Some new defensive pairings:

Alzner and Fleury reunited.

Brook with Leskinen sounds interesting.

I also like that Poehling gets Peca and Barber. Peca hasn't been doing much. But it's still good to have him with Poehling.

Varone is dropped down to 3C.

I like Lynch, but I guess the fact Evans is still in Montreal doesn't give Bouchard many options for Hudon/Kotkaniemi. Cox and Vejdemo are still injured and didn't travel with the team. Would think that either Cox or Vejdemo would have been up there on the top line had they been available.

I wouldn't mind seeing Alain being given a shot there.

 

[montreal]

damn was hoping Vejdemo would be back.

I like Alzner with Fleury as Fleury has been on the ice for way too many goals against since coming back. I think Leskinen Brook sounds terrible as both are weak physically and in their own end, I would have put Brook with Olofsson.

They better get their shit together real quick cause these next few games are really tough ones.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Kotkaniemi with a great first shift.

 

[Adam Michaels]

GOAL! Leskinen with a wrist shot from the blue line.

Josh Brook and Laurent Dauphin with the assists.

 

[Adam Michaels]

That goal started when Kotkaniemi stopped a Utica clearance at the blue line and made sure the Comets couldn't get the puck off him as he was passing it around to his linemates. That gave Laval the chance to have sustained possession in the offensive zone. Then Laval was able to make a line change and the Dauphin line was able to keep the pressure on that ended up with the Leskinen goal.

 

[Adam Michaels]

DiPietro with a great save on Dauphin, who had a nice chance from the slot.

 

[montreal]

that's Brook's 4th pt in the last 10 games, not great but his ppg keeps creeping up slowly as the season goes on.

 

[montreal]

certainly a better start then last game but I'm sure Bouchard tore them a new one after that stinker.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Laval is off to a very good start. The Dauphin line with Waked and Veilleux is probably the best line so far.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Leskinen from Brook and Dauphin

 

[Adam Michaels]

What a save by Primeau!

 

[montreal]

what a save by Primeau!

 

[Adam Michaels]

Leskinen's goal:

 

[Adam Michaels]

I really like Utica's green jerseys.

 

[montreal]

Kotka falls on the ice, lol.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Utica with their first offensive puck control. They hit the post and then draw a penalty.

 

[montreal]

I really like Utica's green jerseys.

it made me think of the Hartford Whalers

 

[Adam Michaels]

And Laval gets called for another penalty. Varone for tripping.

Utica gets a long 5-on-3 chance here.

 

[Adam Michaels]

And now Utica gets called. A 4-on-3 PP for Utica.

3 penalties called back-to-back at the end of the period after both teams were disciplined.

 

[ahmedou]

Focus guys...

 

[Adam Michaels]

Utica trying to convince the refs that the puck that deflected off Alzner's stick and into the crowd was on purpose and that Alzner flipped it over.

 

[montreal]

f***. Primeau lifted his pad, if he kept it there I don't think that goes in. but the D or Poehling need to get their quicker, can't have a guy standing in front of Primeau wacking at the puck.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Utica ties it on the PP.

Primeau made a great save in front of the net, but the Comets player picked up the rebound.