Here are some comments and observations from the St. John’s IceCaps vs Syracuse Crunch at the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena in Syracuse, New York.
1 A quick look at tonight’s line combos and D pairings along with injuries and scratches:
Hudon – Terry – Scherbak Redmond – Lernout
Matteau – de la Rose – McCarron Hanley – Juulsen
Farnham – Audette – Friberg Brouillette – Didier
Veilleux – Petti – Camara
Starting Goalie: Lindgren
Backup Goalie: Fucale
Scratches: Parisi, Broll, Carr, Eisenschmid, Asselin, Johnston, Mete, Danis, Lowe, MacMillan and Gregoire.
Injuries:
IceCaps in Montreal:
IceCaps in Brampton: Thrower, Crisp and Gagnon.
Notes:
2 The IceCaps power play went 1 for 7 tonight to bring their playoff total to 3 for 20 for a 15.0% success rate.
3 St. John’s penalty kill went 4 for 5 tonight to bring their playoff total to 15 for 17 for a 88.2% success rate.
4 The IceCaps out shot the Crunch 27-25. Matteau, Lernout, Redmond and Terry led the IceCaps with 3 shots while Gourde led the Crunch with 5 shots. (1st period 9-8 Crunch, 2nd period 8-5 IceCaps, 3rd period 10-7 IceCaps, 1st OT period 4-1 Crunch)
5 Quick points:
6 A look at the 3 stars of the game:
7 My 3 stars of the game would have been:
8 Former Hab Gabriel Dumont scores in overtime to end St. John’s season in front of 5477 fans at the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena in Syracuse, New York.
Erik Condra opens the scoring at 16:41 of the first period getting his second of the series on the power play with assists going to Tye McGinn and Matthew Peca.
The second period would be scoreless with the IceCaps outshooting the Crunch 8-5.
Stefan Matteau ties the game scoring his 3rd of the series on the power play at 14:27 of the third period with helpers going to Daniel Audette and Jacob de la Rose.
Gabriel Dumont scores at 2:18 of the first overtime to end the game with assists going to Byron Froese and Adam Erne.
Charlie Lindgren would stop 23 of 25 shots in a losing cause while Mike McKenna would stop 26 of 27 to pick up the win. Final Score: 2-1 Crunch in OT.
The Crunch win the series 3-1 and move on to play either the Toronto Marlies or Albany Devils.
Next game for the IceCaps never as they are moving to Laval next season and becoming the Rocket.
The end of the season press conference has come and gone. Marc Bergevin and Geoff Molson came to address the usual group of individuals from the media and while a fresh note or two was played at this proverbial concert, this presser has –in essence– only made things worse. Marc and Geoff preach a […]