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Special teams push Mariners past Railers

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PORTLAND, ME –  The Maine Mariners, proud affiliates of the NHL’s Boston Bruins and AHL’s Providence Bruins, completed a home-and-home sweep of the Worcester Railers with a 4-1 home victory on Saturday night at the Cross Insurance Arena. Max Andreev scored a pair of power play goals, while the Mariners penalty kill was a perfect 8/8.SPECIAL TEAMS BOOST MARINERS OVER RAILERS

The Mariners used the man advantage to strike early. Max Andreev, camped at the goal line, tried to stuff a pass to the back door that caromed off the skate of Railers defenseman Cam McDonald and in for the 1-0 Maine lead. Midway through the period, the Mariners doubled the advantage when Linus Hemstrom followed Robert Cronin’s shot off the pad of William Lavalliere and finished the rebound out in front. The Railers sliced the deficit in half at 13:50 on Anthony Repaci’s breakaway goal. The Mariners led 2-1 after 20 minutes.

Neither team scored in the middle frame, and it was Andreev cashing in with another power play goal in the third for insurance. At 7:27, he took a quick feed from Robert Cronin in the middle and picked out a spot from the right circle up and over Lavalliere to make it 3-1. Brooklyn Kalmikov hit the empty net with 2:02 remaining to seal the 4-1 victory.

Brad Arvanitis made 37 saves on 38 Worcester shots to win his 19th game of the season. The Mariners improved to 14-1-1 in their last 16 games, and decreased their magic number for clinching a playoff spot to 11 points with 13 games remaining.

K-Wings fall to Rush, 3-2

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KALAMAZOO, MI – The Kalamazoo Wings (27-26-3-3), proud ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League’s Vancouver Canucks, could not overcome goals on the first two shots of the second period by the Rapid City Rush (25-30-4-1), falling Saturday at Wings Event Center, 3-2.K-WINGS FALL TO RUSH SATURDAY AT HOME

Rapid City took the initial lead, scoring a goal on its first shot of the contest at the 1:02 mark of the first period.

Evan Dougherty (4) continued his hot streak by sneaking in a five-hole goal on the rush at the 3:14 mark. On the play, Colson Gengenbach (6) started the play behind the Kalamazoo net, passing to Collin Saccoman (14), who launched a beautiful rink-wide pass from his own goal line to Dougherty, rushing in the slot for the goal.

Unfortunately, the Rush responded with a pair of second-period goals at the 4:35 and 5:56 marks to bring the score to 3-1 Rapid City heading into the final frame.

Ryan Cox (14) then deposited a net-front goal at the 2:32 mark to bring the K-Wings within one. On the setup, the K-Wings and Rush skated 4-on-4 as Saccoman (15) started a 3-on-3 blitz into the offensive zone, finding Jackson Kunz (5), who quickly relayed to Cox for the goal.

Jonathan Lemieux (10-7-1-3) was stout in net, making 35 saves in the contest. The K-Wings went 4-for-5 on the penalty and 0-for-4 on the power-play.

Next up, Kalamazoo concludes the three-game series versus the Rush at 3 p.m. EDT on Sunday at Wings Event Center, featuring a kids’ Jersey Giveaway.

Dafoe’s Pro Debut Steals the Show, IceHogs Drop Wolves 4-2

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Rosemont, IL – The Rockford IceHogs stormed past the Chicago Wolves 4-2 on Saturday night inside Allstate Arena.55161028363 7f8d5aaed4 k

In the 1st period, the Rockford 4th line took over play quickly to help build a 2-0 lead. In his professional debut, Chase Dafoe scored two goals off of net-front deflections.

His first came from a Dmitri Kuzmin wrister at the blue line and his second off a shot courtesy of Brayden Hislop.

The Wolves pushed in the 2nd period, but Drew Commesso thwarted all 19 shots in the frame to keep the Hogs up 2-0 headed into the intermission.

In the opening minute of the 3rd, Brett Seney was credited with his 13th of the season after he drove the net and had the puck roll in off the Chicago defense.

Later in the frame the Wolves finally got on the board with a tap-in power play goal from Noel Gunler to cut the deficit to 3-1. Rem Pitlick and Josiah Slavin traded late-game tallies for the 4-2 final.

Comets Fall 5-2 in Feisty Affair in Providence

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Providence, RI– The Comets headed to Providence to face the Bruins on Saturday and lost by a score of 5-2. Comets Fall 5-2 in Feisty Affair in Providence

It was the Bruins who jumped on the board early, just 30 seconds in when Joey Abate drove into the Comets’ zone and sent a cross-ice pass to Jake Schmaltz who tipped it home past Jakub Malek for his seventh of the year to give Providence a 1-0 lead. Shortly thereafter, Nathan Legare dropped the gloves with Bruins’ forward Navrin Mutter at the 1:44 mark for Legare’s eighth fight of the season. The Comets had a few chances to tie the game, their best coming from Brian Halonen on the power play, but Providence netminder Simon Zajicek made a great glove save to preserve the 1-0 lead.

After going 3-for-3 on the penalty kill in the first, the Comets started the second shorthanded and remained perfect on the kill. It was a feisty period with two more fights transpiring when Jonathan Gruden squared up with Riley Tufte at the 3:22 mark of the second, and then Dmitry Osipov went toe to toe with Michael Callahan at 7:38. The Comets were able to find the equalizer later in the period when Calen Addison’s drive from the right circle was stopped by Simon Zajicek, but Jonathan Gruden was there to pot the rebound for his 10th of the year at 11:41. Cam Squires picked up the secondary assist.

The Comets started the third period shorthanded after Austin Strand was called for tripping late in the second and right as the power play expired, the Bruins were able to regain the lead when Georgii Merkulov fired home a rebound after a shot from Matt Poitras was stopped by Malek just 52 seconds into the third on Merkulov’s 19th of the year. Later in the period, the Bruins found some insurance when Riley Duran tipped home a shot from Max Wanner at 8:12 to make it 3-1 on his fifth of the year. The Bruins weren’t done as Riley Tufte found the back of the net after being set up by Victor Soderstrom at 12:33 for his team-leading 26th of the year to make it 4-1. The Comets answered less than a minute later when Mike Hardman’s shot from the right circle leaked through Simon Zajicek, which made it 4-2 at 13:40 on Hardman’s eighth of the year from Matyas Melovsky and Austin Strand. The Bruins would go back up by three, however, when Riley Tufte hammered home a loose puck in the slot at 16:52 for his second of the game and 27th of the year to make it 5-2.

The Comets were outshot by the Bruins 33-20, while going 0-for-2 on the power play and 6-for-6 on the penalty kill.

Oesterle double leads Ads past Griffins

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Milwaukee, WI—Jordan Oesterle scored two goals and the Admirals rallied from a 2-1 third period deficit to take down the Grand Rapids Griffins 5-2 on Saturday night at historic Panther Arena.

The win was the fourth in the past five games for Milwaukee, who coupled with a loss from Iowa, saw their magic number to clinch a spot in the Calder Cup Playoffs drop to 18 as the regular season ends four weeks from Sunday.

Admirals Captain Kevin Gravel scored his second goal of the season and dished out two assists for his first the first three-point night of his career.

Playing in their first games in front of the home crowd since being acquired from Boston in a trade on March 12, Dalton Bancroft dished out a pair of assists and Massimo Rizzo scored a goal to help the Ads offense. Cole O’Hara also posted a two-point night with a goal and an assist for his seventh multi-point effort of the season.

In net Magnus Chrona stopped 22 of the 24 shots he faced to pick up his eighth win of the season for Milwaukee

After a scoreless first period Jordan Oesterle got the Ads on the board with a snapshot from a tight angle at 3:05 of the second, but the Griffins responded just over two minutes later with a shorthanded tally by Carter Mazuer.

Then just 46 seconds into the third Grand Rapids grabbed the lead when former Admiral John Leonard scored backdoor on what appeared to be a remarkable save by Chrona. However, after review it was determined that Chrona’s glove had gone over the line with the puck in it and the Griffins went on top.

However, the Admirals scored the next four goals beginning when Gravel tied the score at two at 3:11 of the final period and that was followed by Oesterle’s second of the night, this time on the power-play, to give Milwaukee a lead they would not relinquish at the 5:51 mark.

Rizzo and O’Hara gave the Ads insurance goals as they became the only team in the league to beat the Griffins four times this season.

The two teams head back to Grand Rapids to play on Tuesday, March 24th at 6 pm CT in a game that was rescheduled from March 13th because of unsafe ice conditions.

Monsters crunched by Syracuse

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The Cleveland Monsters fell to the Syracuse Crunch (37-19-3-2) 6-2 on Saturday night at Upstate Medical University Arena. With the loss, the Monsters are now 33-21-6-1 and are currently in third place in the AHL’s North Division standings.Featured Image

Syracuse got on the board just 49 seconds into the contest with a goal from Jakob Pelletier to give the Crunch a 1-0 lead through 20 minutes. 10:37 into the second period, Mitchell Chaffee scored for Syracuse on a penalty shot to pull the Crunch up 2-0. Cleveland’s Roman Ahcan opened the Monsters’ scoring at 12:38 with assists from Luca Pinelli and Dysin Mayo to make it a 2-1 game before Syracuse’s Simon Lundmark added a marker at 17:41 to end the second frame with a 3-1 Crunch lead.

Tristan Allard pulled Syracuse up by three at 0:18 of the final stanza making it 4-1 before Jack Williams netted one unassisted at 9:43 to make it a 4-2 Crunch lead.

Crunch forward Mitchell Chaffee buried an empty net goal at 17:48 followed by Gabriel Szturc scoring on the power play at 19:54 to cap off a 6-2 Syracuse win.

Cleveland’s Ivan Fedotov stopped 19 shots in defeat while Syracuse’s Ryan Fanti made 27 saves for the win.