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Ads stop Griffins, 5-4, in OT

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Grand Rapids, MI— Jordan Oesterle scored the game-winning goal as the Milwaukee Admirals defeated the Grand Rapids Griffins 5-4 in overtime Tuesday at Van Andel Arena.

The game was originally scheduled for Mar. 13, but dangerous ice conditions after a power outage forced the game to be postponed.

Milwaukee never had a lead in the contest until Oesterle scored the overtime winner. It was his 11th goal of the season and his fourth game-winner. During 3-on-3 play in the OT session Oesterle had the puck in front of the Griffins net. As the goalie sprawled for the puck, Oesterle was able to hold until the net opened. He snapped the puck into the goal for his second straight game-winning goal. Austin Roest and Ryder Rolston assisted on the winner.

The Admirals Magic Number to clinch a playoff spot dropped to 16. That’s a combination of points earned by the Admirals and lost by the Iowa Wild.

The teams alternated scoring goals in the first period with the Griffins scoring first. Carter Mazur deflected a shot from the point past Admirals goalie Matt Murray at 1:10 of the first period.

Milwaukee tied the game with a power play goal at 4:14 of the first frame. Joey Willis fed a pass from the left boards to David Edstrom at the bottom of the left circle. Edstrom took a stride toward the net, then passed the puck to the right post for Oasiz Wiesblatt to slam into the goal. It was Wiesblatt’s 12th goal and his eighth on the power play.

Grand Rapids reclaimed the lead at 5:15 when defenseman Axel Sandin-Pellikka’s shot from center point found the back of the net.

The Admirals tied the game 2-2 at 15:47 of the first period with another power play tally. Massimo Rizzo held the left point and tossed the puck to the right circle. Isaac Ratcliffe settled the puck and snapped a pass to the left post for Kyle Marino to tip into the cage. Marino’s fifth goal of the season was also his first scored while his team was on the man advantage this year.

The Griffins took a 3-2 lead at 2:14 of the second period when John Leonard scored a shorthanded goal for the Griffins. It was his 30th goal of the season and his eighth in seven games against the Admirals.

Milwaukee’s Ratcliffe evened the score at 3-3 when he scored his sixth goal of the season at 16:07 of the second stanza. Ratcliffe picked the puck off the left-wing boards and rushed to the goal, sliding the puck into the net past goalie Sebastian Cossa. Andrew Gibson and Cole O’Hara picked up assists.

Austin Watson scored with a slap shot from the point at 3:08 of the third frame to reclaim a one-goal lead for the Griffins, but M Milwaukee’s Joey Willis tied it again at 4-4. Willis skated off the right wing boards in the Griffins Zoe and snapped a wrist shot past the glove of Cossa. It was his fifth goal of the year. Marino and Tanner Molendyk recorded the helpers.

The Admirals will host Henderson at Historic Panther Arena Fri., Mar. 27 and Sat., Mar. 28.

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.

Shorthanded Unit Shines in 5-3 T-Bird Win at Belleville

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BELLEVILLE, ON – The Springfield Thunderbirds (25-28-6-2) rode a fantastic night from their shorthanded unit to a 5-3 win over the Belleville Senators (24-30-8-1) on Saturday night at CAA Arena.Petey 3 21 26

The Thunderbirds’ penalty-killing unit had a first period for the ages. As if going 3-for-3 was not impressive enough, Springfield added not one, but two shorthanded tallies in the opening 5:31 of the contest. Chris Wagner set up Alek Kaskimaki for the first one, just 1:48 into the festivities, sliding a 2-on-1 pass to the crashing winger in the low slot before Kaskimaki deked to his backhand to beat Mads Sogaard.

On Springfield’s second kill of the period, Dylan Peterson picked off a loose puck at his whole blue line and finished off a shorthanded breakaway with a forehand snapper through Sogaard at 5:31, making it a 2-0 score.

Tyler Boucher would bring Belleville back to within one when he banked a centering pass off a T-Bird and past Will Cranley at 7:48 of the first, cutting the score to 2-1.

However, Springfield used offensive zone time from a man advantage to strike back at 16:24 as Zach Dean feathered a smooth saucer pass to Juraj Pekarcik for the T-Birds’ third goal of the period and first even-strength marker of the night.

With the teams skating 4-on-4 early in the second, Sam Bolduc netted his first goal as a Senator as he wristed a shot through a screened Cranley to make it a 3-2 game just 55 seconds into the middle stanza.

However, the one-goal score would last only another 55 seconds before Peterson cashed in for his second of the evening, tapping a loose puck past Sogaard in the blue paint following a pass from Pekarcik.

With the 4-2 advantage, Springfield added still more insurance at 5:42 when Chris Wagner stole a breakout pass in the neutral zone and tapped the puck forward for Dillon Dube, who slipped a forehander through Sogaard’s five-hole for Springfield’s fifth goal on just 13 shots.

Sogaard’s night came to an unceremonious end, as he gave way to Leevi Merilainen, who promptly picked up where he left off from a 40-save shutout in Springfield on Jan. 24, stopping the final eight T-Birds shots of the period to keep the score at 5-2 heading into the third.

Belleville far outshot Springfield in the third, but the T-Birds kept the Sens from high-danger chances, relenting only a late power-play goal by Carter Yakemchuk at 17:45 of the final period. Cranley picked up his third win of the season in his home province, stopping 23 in the win, including 14 in the final period alone.

The T-Birds return to the Thunderdome for another tangle with the first place Bruins on Wednesday night at 7:05 p.m. before hitting the road for a crucial battle with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Friday at 7:05 p.m. from PPL Center.