Bears with a hard fought 4-2 win. Nardella played very well tonight and was in for the past two games with LuJo being injured for the weekend. Snively drew back into the lineup after being a healthy scratch Saturday night.
Fever with a solid game tonight. Played very physical after taking a brutal hit early in the game from Luke Witkowski. Moulson with two early goals to set the pace and Malenstyn scored the eventual game winner. D pairs were all over the place. There really wasn’t any set partners and handedness really didn’t matter. At one point there was a Hobbs/Burgdoerfer pairing that had me a little worried. Pilon took a bad high stick but came back to finish out the game. The AJF-Pinho-Malenstyn line was solid once again. They just out work the other team every single night and annoy the opposing teams top line.
I don’t know what it is about Gersich, but he hasn’t taken any steps forward with his game from last season. There’s very little offensive production there and he seems to be lacking some kind of identity. Definitely on the disappointing list with Snively for this season. I am a little more sympathetic for Snively though considering he has been plastered to the 4th line with mostly ECHL level players.
Whitney again given top line minutes without providing any type of production at all. That line was driven by the play of Sgarbossa in the offensive zone and the net front presence of Moulson. Also, hate to see Mailett on the wing and McCarthy still given a sweater. Wouldn’t mind seeing McCarthy sent down and Casey Bailey brought back to Hershey. Bailey is currently playing for the Stingrays.
@Langway I kept an eye out to see how aggressive the D were tonight. Couldn’t give you a definite answer from my point of view. Seemed like only certain D were playing more aggressive in the offensive zone. Those guys were Fever (definitely the most aggressive of all the D), Nardella and surprisingly Burgdoerfer. I didn’t notice Djoos, Hobbs and AA doing it as much as the other three