Milwaukee ground out a 2-1 win against the Belleville Senators, a team that has 25 wins in 43 games.
Milwaukee has 29 wins in 43 games and is gaudy 16-3-1-1 at home so far this season.
Trenin was the #1 star with an assist on the first goal and he scored the second goal. Both were PPG. He looks faster on his skates than before.
Ingram, the #3 star, had 20 saves. A few of those saves should have counted double. He also passed the puck to the wrong team 4 times, they nearly scored twice on his misjudgments. He needs to work on that aspect of his game!
If Pitlick could get the puck on net, he could have scored 4 goals tonight. The Ads had 15 or so quality scoring chances which resulted in 2 goals. Pitlick had no official shots on goal. Salomaki had 5 SOG.
Ref Ratings: If the game ended after 2 periods, all four on ice officials would have received a nine. Two of them had brain farts in period three.
Mason Riley, #79 and the taller ref, still gets a nine. Jeremy Tufts, #78 gets a six. A Senator had Richard in a combination square dance hook and hammer lock behind the goal for 15 seconds or so. Richard was spinning around like a top trying to get free since the puck was at the center line. Tufts was 15 feet away and just stared without raising his arm. That prompted a round of "ref you suck" from the fans at my end. He also called Tinordi for a trip. The replay showed that the guy lost an edge and Tinordi's stick never got within 6 inches of his skates. He had some other screw ups in period 3.
Linesman Ben O'Quinn, #92, gets a nine. Jonathan Deschamps, #84 had some offside issues in period three. He also got in the way of a few pucks. He gets a seven. Neither linesman kicked very many players out of face offs, which was a good thing in this game.
Dirty Player of the Game: Alex Formenton. He likes using his stick on people. He got into several jousting contests during the game. Carrier got jabbed in the stomach a few times in period two and he skated after Formenton as they went up ice and jabbed him back in the stomach, then smacked him on the back of the right thigh with his stick. Formenton was called for one penalty in the game, a high sticking minor when the toe of his blade was caught inside the visor of an Admirals player in the northeast corner. He could have been called for 1 or 2 more, but he kept doing it in front of Ref Tufts, who didn't call it when he hit players in the head with his stick.
Gaudreau, the Energy Player of the Game, looked like he got hit in the mouth and maybe lost a tooth. I didn't see it, but I will guess that it was Formenton. Freddy was skating toward the Admirals bench and he did not make it back. He was laying face down on the center line about 30 feet from the Admiral's bench. There was no replay. Gaudreau talked to Ref Tufts for about 20 seconds after he got up and pointed at his mouth. (Earlier in period three, Belleville goalie Joey Daccord, the #2 star, went down on a routine save. Play did not resume for a good two minutes. There was no replay. There is a camera that watches each goal, so there must be some video. He caught the puck with his glove, so it didn't hit him in the groin. I have no idea what happened in front of me. The people behind me were talking and they did not see what happened.)
I have no idea if the two mysterious third period injuries were linked.