Prospect Info: Cedar Park

[Kcb12345]

McKenzie scores off the feed from Bourque on the rush. 2-1 game

 

[Kcb12345]

Seminoff deflection goal makes it a 2-2 game early in the 2nd period

 

[Kcb12345]

Texas with a 3-2 lead. Bourque with a diving poke on net leads to a tap-in rebound goal for Pettersen

2 assists for Bourque

 

[BG44]

Blumel with another boneheaded play. Delay of game giving Milwaukee a 5 on 3 for almost a minute.

 

[Zapp]

How’s Pettersen look?

 

[Kcb12345]

How’s Pettersen look?

He's been so effective for Texas. Twice the player Damiani is. Reminds me of Dadonov

 

[DieselPig]

How has Bichsel looked?

 

[Kcb12345]

How has Bichsel looked?

Haven't really been looking out for him much but don't think he's seen a ton of ice time. I might be wrong though, I missed a chunk of the 2nd period. He's been quiet when I've been watching

 

[Kcb12345]

Blumel a beautiful shot puts Texas up 4-3 less than 5 minutes into the 3rd

 

[Zapp]

He's been so effective for Texas. Twice the player Damiani is. Reminds me of Dadonov

Some of the scouting reports on him are really encouraging

A few of them seem to think the only thing keeping Pettersen from an NHL top 6 is consistency

 

[BG44]

How has Bichsel looked?

He's been physical. Several notable hits including putting someone in the bench. Been good with the puck, and he activated in the offensive zone a couple shifts in the 2nd.

 

[Kcb12345]

Texas is playing 7D tonight no wonder we haven't seen a ton of shifts from Bichsel. Easing him in I suppose

I thought it felt like they had a lot of different dmen out there lol

 

[starsfan86]

Kyrou having a great postseason so far. 5 points and tied for 2nd in the league.

 

[Kcb12345]

Beautiful passing play from Texas and its 5-3. Bourque to McKenzie to Pettersen and he buries it

3 assists for Bourque
2 goals for Pettersen

 

[BG44]

Kyrou hasn't seen the ice since early in the 3rd. They are just rotating 6 D now.

 

[MrHeiskanen]

Nice win for Texas.

 

[Kcb12345]

Bourque taps home an empty net goal for his 4th point of the night and it's 6-3 Texas. They're gonna win game 1. Best of 5 series this time

Great effort

 

[starsfan86]

Good game Mavrik, Bitchy, and the rest of the baby Stars

 

[Hull Fan]

Are a bunch of the forwards injured so they decided to dress 7D or something?

 

[BG44]

Are a bunch of the forwards injured so they decided to dress 7D or something?

I think it had more to do with Bichsel being in Texas less than 48 hours and only getting in the pre-game skate.

I bet they were worried about jetlag.

 

[serp]

Kind of incredible the AHL gives the lower Seed its 2 home game first in a BO 5 series.

 

[BrettHullsToe]

Kind of incredible the AHL gives the lower Seed its 2 home game first in a BO 5 series.

I looked into this last year (I think, maybe it was a few years ago). There are multiple formats and the higher seed gets to choose. Texas chose this format to reduce travel. If you look at Eastern games they typically choose the standard 2-2-1.

 

[serp]

As massively favored higher seed i'd never chose to first start 2 games on the road since if you don't win at least one of those road games all your 3 home games will be potential elimination games for you.

Same reason the old 2-3-2 format in the NBA finals often provided an advantage for the lower seed.