The Admirals won 4-3 in overtime against the Adirondack Flames on the road Saturday night. The Flames overcame two two-goal deficits and forced overtime in the final minute. The overtime hero would be Viktor Arvidsson tonight who whirled in a spectacular backhander for his second goal on the night to give the Admirals a season high winning streak of seven games.

This game began with some solid puck possession for the Flames which was highlighted by them earning two power-plays in the first period. Against the run of play, Rich Clune had a shorthanded breakaway that he buried past goaltender Brad Thiessen’s glove to score his third goal of the season. It’s the first shorthanded goal scored in 2014-15 by the Admirals. The only two teams yet to record a shorthanded goal this season are the Oklahoma City Barons and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

The Admirals extended their lead in the second period after a very fortunate bounce. The Flames were unable to clear their own zone when Mark Cundari’s banked clearing attempt off the glass went into the path of Miikka Salomaki who kicked the puck high up into the air. The bounce that the puck took off the ice skipped in on Thiessen in net who managed to kick the puck aside but right in line with Salomaki. The Finn retrieved the rebound and popped in a backhanded shot past the pads for his sixth goal of the season.

After Joe Piskula was caught playing too far forward in the offensive end of the ice the Flames were able to rush off on a two-on-one. Ben Hanowski and David Wolf executed the odd man break to perfection as they made two quick passes to get Jonathan Diaby to bite one way and had Magnus Hellberg scrambling in net before Wolf deposited the puck into a nearly wide open cage for his eighth goal of the season.

With the Admirals first power-play chance of the night came just another booming slap shot goal for Viktor Arvidsson. Brendan Leipsic passed up to the point for Taylor Aronson who teed up the one-timed shot for Arvidsson who bashed in his thirteenth goal of the season and sixth scored on the power-play.

The game would go back to a one-goal advantage only 1:17 of ice time later. The Flames were able to work a loose puck out in front of Hellberg and Wolf managed to find it before three Admirals out in front of the net could. It was a quick move to Wolf’s right before beating Hellberg to the glove side for his second goal of the night and ninth of the season.

Last night the Admirals were celebrating a last minute goal. Tonight they were on the receiving end of last minute theatrics. The Flames pulled Thiessen and burned their timeout with 1:33 remaining in regulation. With only fifty-one seconds remaining Michael Ferland’s fifth goal of the season sent the game to overtime. The Flames used their numbers around Hellberg in net and Wolf managed to pass off to Ferland on the back door for the tap in.

In the overtime period Arvidsson finished the game off with a dazzling individual effort. The Swede dangled in off the right wing before moving on to center and then whipped in a backhander that beat Thiessen high blocker side for his second tally of the game and fourteenth on the season. During this season long winning streak Arvidsson has scored nine points, five goals, and four assists in seven games.

Ramblings: Prior to the game the Nashville Predators recalled defenseman Anthony Bitetto. He made his NHL debut tonight playing on the road against the Detroit Red Wings. Tonight’s Admirals scratches were Joe Pendenza (healthy), Frederick Gaudreau (healthy), and Johan Alm (upper body). Taylor Aronson returned to the lineup after missing the previous two games of the road trip due to an undisclosed injury. Kevin Fiala has yet to join the team and is expected to arrive in Milwaukee on Monday.

Thoughts from tonight’s performance? Did the Admirals dodge a bullet tonight? How would you rate Viktor Arvidsson amongst the Admirals forwards right now?

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The Admirals won 2-1 on the road against the Utica Comets Friday night. It was a last second thriller that saw Mark Van Guilder steal the win for the Ads tonight on his fifth goal of the season. Magnus Hellberg had yet another stellar performance in net and the Admirals have matched the winning streak that started the season with six straight victories.

Mike Liambas returned to the Admirals lineup for the first time since being suspended three games for his illegal check to the head of Grand Rapids Griffins’ Louis-Marc Aubry. Liambas had sat out the last two games as a healthy scratch. And what better way to return to the ice than with a fight in your opening shift. He dropped the gloves with Tom Sestito and both landed some nice punches. Sestito finished it off. I’d give the slight edge in the fight column to the Comets bruiser.

The Admirals would get on the board first after Rich Clune put away his second goal of the season. Ian White’s shot from the point flew in through traffic and into Jacob Markstrom. The puck took some bounces around the cage, near Austin Watson, before falling over to the right wing side of the net to Clune who cleaned up the garbage.

In the second period, after checking Viktor Arvidsson down at one end of the rink, Andrey Pedan had to answer for his actions down at the other end. Jonathan Diaby was the man who paired up with Pedan and landed serval jabs flush before the Comets defenseman landed some decent blows to earn a take down.

After wave upon wave of offensive pressure the Comets finally solved Magnus Hellberg late in the third period. A puck fell to Hunter Shinkaruk who made a spectacular spinning pass against the grain to the opposite post to give Dustin Jeffrey a tap in for his eleventh goal of the season. Hellberg was a perfect 27/27 prior to the equalizing goal for the Comets.

With thirty-four seconds remaining in regulation Mark Van Guilder played spoiler to the Utica Comets comeback bid. Despite being over-matched from the second period onwards the Comets were burned in transition as Van Guilder was free in space on the right wing and beat Markstrom on a wrist shot to the five-hole for the game-winner. The goal for Van Guilder is his fifth of the season and sees the Admirals winning streak match its season high of six games.

It was yet another great night in net for Hellberg who improved his already impressive stat totals to 1.68 goals against average with a 0.936 save percentage – both of which are tops in the AHL this season. With the win tonight he has officially double the amount of wins he earned for the Admirals last season with ten.

Ramblings: Tonight’s scratches for the Admirals included Joe Pendenza (healthy), Frederick Gaudreau (healthy), Kevin Fiala (has yet to join the team), Taylor Aronson (undisclosed injury), and Johan Alm (upper body). Aronson has now missed the last two games due to an undisclosed injury. Alm has now missed seventeen straight games due to an upper body injury. Fiala is yet to join the Admirals and is expected to arrive in Milwaukee on Monday with a chance to debut for Wednesday’s home game against these very same Comets.

Thoughts on tonight’s game? Did the Admirals just get away with robbery with that late goal? Is Magnus Hellberg making his point that he should be up in the NHL right now?

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The Admirals won 4-1 on the road against the Hamilton Bulldogs Wednesday night. It is now a five game winning streak for the Admirals as their complete game, offense and defense, helped see them to another solid performance.

This game started off with two successful power-play goals for the Admirals. The first opportunity came thanks to a “Check of the Year” candidate by Triston Grant. The veteran lined up Davis Drewiske in front of the penalty box area and laid him out. This drew the attention of Jack Nevins. The officials sent Nevins to the box after he made a scene of the incident by dropping his gloves and looking to engage Grant.

As would be the case, Grant would capitalize on the power-play he helped create. He had Austin Watson on his opposite wing and was looking to pass across to him. As he tried to feed across the puck deflected in past goaltender Mike Condon off of Darren Dietz’s skate. The goal for Grant goes down as his fourth of the season.

The second power-play chance of the night was a little less of a fluke and a little more of a YouTube highlight. Brendan Leipsic, returning for the first time since being a healthy scratch the last two games, delivered a perfect wing-to-wing feed to Watson who buried his team leading fifteenth goal into an open net. The assist for Leipsic was his twenty-second on the season – half of which have come on the power-play.

Just following a successful penalty kill for the Admirals they were picking a puck out of their own net. Daniel Carr let loose an absolute howitzer of a slap shot from the right point that alluded the screen of Gabriel Dumont and netminder Magnus Hellberg for Carr’s seventh goal of the season. With the goal scored by the Bulldogs it snapped the Admirals shutout streak that lasted 148:50 of ice time over the course of four games.

A minute into the third period the Admirals scored to make it a 3-1 game. Rich Clune skated in off the left wing pocket before tossing a puck to the traffic out in front of the net. The puck appeared to hit Felix Girard’s stick as he was falling down on the ice and then took a final deflection off of the leg of Zach Budish before going in past Condon. That wacky mess of a goal counts all the same. It gets recorded as Budish’s fourth goal for the Admirals this season.

Hamilton attempted to pull a Patrick Roy tactic by emptying their net with 3:44 left in game trailing by two goals. The Admirals managed to shove off the pressure and capped the contest off with an empty net tally for Pontus Aberg – his fourteenth goal of the season.

Hellberg’s night in net was relatively calm. The defense out in front of him forced much of the activity for the Bulldogs to the outside along the wall. Their lone goal just so happened to be a shot coming from far out on the perimeter with a screen. Beyond that, Hellberg stopped 20/21 shots on goal to help the Admirals to their fifth straight win.

Ramblings: Prior to the game, Rob Madore was recalled to the Milwaukee Admirals from the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL. He was on the bench tonight. Marek Mazanec should be expected to be officially recalled by the Nashville Predators tomorrow. Tonight’s scratches were Mike Liambas (healthy), Frederick Gaudreau (healthy), Taylor Aronson (undisclosed injury), Johan Alm (upper-body), and Marek Mazanec (being called up). The win tonight improved the Admirals to fifth place in the Western Conference standings. It was also the 100th career win for Dean Evason as head coach of the Milwaukee Admirals.

Thoughts on tonight’s game? What is impressing you about the Admirals during this win streak? How did Brendan Leipsic play in his return to the lineup?

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