Cleveland Monsters Thread VII (All Affiliate talk here)

[Jackets Woodchuck]

Hodgson has replaced T.Broadhurst on the 4th line mid-game, will report other line changes as I hear them.

 

[Jackets Woodchuck]

Sorry for the lack of updates. I have been listening to the game in the background while following a church service online (I'm a Lutheran and today is the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Church).

 

[Jackets Woodchuck]

2-1 Monsters 2nd period.

 

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5:30 left in second, still 2-1

 

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Monsters going on power play

 

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Rockford tied game at 19:07-2, 2-2 2nd intermission

 

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Service ended, so I should be able to focus more on the game in the 3rd period.

 

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15:09 left, 2-2

Thiessen wearing his mask from last year in the third period, not sure why

 

[Jackets Woodchuck]

3,897 attendance, not bad for Halloween on a Tuesday.

 

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Monsters going on penalty kill off of first official timeout (what official?) of the period.

 

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3-2 Monsters 11:18 to go, Bittner's first pro goal

 

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Camper and Koules on the assists

 

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Monsters back on penalty kill coming off of second official timeout of the period

 

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IceHogs timeout, under 3:00 to go

 

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Berube out of goal

delay of game penalty (puck over the glass), Monsters on penalty kill, 2:01 to go

 

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6 on 4 Rockford with empty net

 

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puck cleared, 40 seconds to go

 

[Jackets Woodchuck]

puckgame
3-2 win

 

[pled]

glad to see Thurkauf still going. one of the few promising prospect on that team >.<

 

[NotWendell]

Sorry for the lack of updates. I have been listening to the game in the background while following a church service online (I'm a Lutheran and today is the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Church).

Reformation FTW! My Catholic friends call me a heretic. LOL

 

[pled]

Kivlenieks almost perfect again

 

[Theo Von]

Kivlenieks almost perfect again

I smell a call up coming...
Korpi has a short leash.. but Torts seems to like him.

 

[hardkorejackets]

I smell a call up coming...
Korpi has a short leash.. but Torts seems to like him.

I'm not sure how much "Torts likes him". In 1 or 2 of the interviews after a poor game, he said "That's Clarky's job" and mentioned about how he doesn't work with the goaltenders. So, I'm unsure how much Tort's likes him overall. Personally, I'm not sold on Korpi being a solid backup at the NHL level. I've kind of been hoping that a decent goaltender would somehow go down on waivers that we can claim (ala Mcelhinney with Toronto last season)

Side note- I don't think there's a call-up with Kivlenieks coming any time soon just yet. I think Cleveland continues to increase his AHL action (like they have been). He's still pretty young and this is his 1st pro season. He just turned 21 a few months ago and was playing USHL hockey just about 6 months ago. Going from the USHL to NHL level in 6 months after just 4 AHL games seems like a bit of a rush at his age and being a goaltender. I certainly think there's promise with Kivlenieks being an NHL goalie, but I'm not in a rush just yet.

 

[pled]

I smell a call up coming...
Korpi has a short leash.. but Torts seems to like him.

they still give more gave to thiesen I would wait for him to fully steal the number 1 spot in cleveland before a callup but that could happen before the end of the year

 

[Viqsi]

Gosh, you mean Kivlenieks is actually doing really really well, possibly even better than folks here anticipated during the summer - such as, perhaps, when prospect rankings were being voted on? You don't say.