My name is Magnus Hellberg. What’s your name? “John Mu–” IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS. (Photo Credit: Charlotte Checkers // flickr)
Last night’s 5-4 Admirals loss may have been one of the craziest and exciting hockey games that I’ve watched in a long time. I’m certain that the coaching staff, both of them, won’t be too happy with the defensive effort laid down. That being said, both offenses were buzzing from the second period to the final horn.
As far as losses go – I’d take the proverbial “last team that scores wins” goal fest over a low-scoring nailbiter every single time. A loss is a loss. But, when both sides are trading blows that hard, can’t be as upset with the result.
The flash point in the game last night was of course the melee that triggered a goalie fight in the third period. You can watch the full incident on Hockey Fights Video.
It all started when Rasmus Rissanen caught Rich Clune along the right wing boards with a knee. To me, it appeared as if Clune was looking to swoop to the left of Rissanen and, in a last ditch effort to get a body on him and slow his progress into the attacking zone, Rissanen stuck a leg out on him and sent Clune tumbling down.
While that play alone is poor from Rissanen. I can’t imagine too many Admirals were already that happy with him in the first place. He was playing a very physical game, which is fine, but often crossed the line when it came to the way he was delivering his punishment. Case and point: At the end of the second period Rissanen was fighting behind his own net with Colton Sissons for a puck around the boards. He hooked Sissons up, picked him up and slammed him, and then proceeded to give him a few stiff cross-checks high to the head and neck.
As soon as the Admirals, specifically Mike Liambas, saw the number of the truck that caught Clune on a hit and run… it was on. Liambas went for Rissanen. The Checkers looked to protect their player. The mass of bodies pushed into John Muse‘s net. Magnus Hellberg skated towards center ice to get a good view. And, once Muse went to grab Liambas in the pile, Hellberg took the mask off and went after his opposite netminder.
The game was so highly competitive that it really only took one agitating player like Rissanen to send things from nuts on the goal side of things to insane on the penalty minute figures.
I’ve said it in the past and I’ll say it again about this year’s Milwaukee Admirals team. They do not let anyone mess with their players. Not a soul. So often this season you see the likes of Joe Piskula or Johan Alm manhandling people away from their own goaltenders. When Viktor Stålberg was hit knee-on-knee by Brennan Evans there was an instant response with a fight by Jonathan Diaby. This team has zero problems policing a game on their own. And that’s what I take from last night’s wild ride in the third period.
Mike Liambas became the first Admiral this season to be ejected under the AHL’s new “two and out” fighting major policy. (Photo Credit: Charlotte Checkers // flickr)
The Admirals lost 5-4 on the road against the Charlotte Checkers Saturday night. The game was by far and large the nuttiest and most dramatic game of the season. Nine goals. One-hundred and eight penalty minutes. One line brawl. One goalie fight. The tagline can simply read, “If you loved Slap Shot. You’re going to love this.”
Despite a hot start for the Admirals in attack – it was the Checkers that popped in the opening goal from their first push on offense. Trevor Carrick blasted a shot from the right point that was just narrowly deflected by Chris Terry in front of Magnus Hellberg for a goal. Terry has scored four goals from seventeen-games in the NHL for the Carolina Hurricanes in 2014-15. This goes down as his first in the AHL this season.
The second period certainly didn’t lack for entertainment. The two teams scored five goals. All goals were scored from special teams scenarios. One of the goals came from a shorthanded penalty shot. And, just for good measure, why not a fight while we’re at it?
With a Checkers power-play nearly expiring they tossed a puck from long range in the hopes of a junk goal and were rewarded. Phil Di Giuseppe threw a shot on Hellberg that got coughed out in front of him. The Admirals defense was unable to clear out the front of the net and it allowed Justin Shugg to dump in the garbage for his sixth goal of the season.
The Admirals received a power-play immediately following the goal by Shugg. Taylor Aronson was in two-minds at the point and it sent Ben Holmstrom off on a shorthanded breakaway. Pontus Aberg caught up with him and took him down to draw a shorthanded penalty shot for the Checkers. Holmstrom ripped a wrister underneath the left pad of Hellberg to score his second of the season.
Then, off of that same power-play, the Admirals made it a one-for-one. Anthony Bitetto hit Austin Watson on a stretch pass that sent him in off the right wing on a break. Watson dished off in front of the net to Garrett Noonan to score a power-play goal and his fourth tally of the season.
Mike Liambas then got the boom show going with a nice fight against former Rockford IceHog Kyle Hagel. Plenty of punches from the two landed. Liambas punching Hagel’s helmet off may have been the heaviest blow thrown. I say mark it 10 each in your fight cards. Nice tilt.
The Admirals power-play continued their lightning fast passing and it resulted in two goals for Aberg off of one-timer shots. The first power-play goal by Aberg was set up by Brendan Leipsic on a half-wall to half-wall feed. The second was set up by the point man Aronson to draw the game equal at 3-3 after the Admirals trailed by three-goals only 7:24 of ice time prior.
If the second period wasn’t crazy enough – the third period took things up to eleven. Rasmus Rissanen, who ended the second period by mugging Colton Sissons, caught Rich Clune with a knee on knee it that sent him flying. Liambas went to go get him. The Checkers gathered. And then all hell broke loose.
Every player on the ice started swarming around the Checkers net and, as soon as metminder John Muse went to grab Liambas, Hellberg raced in from center ice and went to brawl with his opposition in net. There were twenty-six penalty minutes prior to this incident taking place. This line brawl resulted in eighty-two total penalty minutes. Liambas was ejected as a result of two fighting majors. And both goalies were given game misconducts for persisting a fight.
(Photo Credit: Charlotte Checkers // flickr)
Last season, after Scott Darling fought Sami Aittokallio, I talked to Hellberg about goalie fighting for an edition of the Chatterbox. He said, “I think it’s awesome. I love goalie fights. I don’t think I’m the guy who is trying to fight guys all the time but I think that’s a thing that every goalie wants to experience in their career. I don’t think I would say no but it has to be at the right time. I won’t jeopardize a win or a tight game or something like that.”
Then came some of the dramatics on the ice from the second period in the goal scoring department. Bitetto turned the puck over right in front of Marek Mazanec and it fell kindly to Brock McGinn who beat the fresh goaltender for his fourth goal of the season to restore the Checkers lead after losing a 3-0 advantage.
For those watching this game live at home on Time Warner Cable Sports Channel – you didn’t see the Admirals equalizing goal by Sissons to make it a 4-4 game. Aberg whipped a backhander wide of the net but Leipsic was able to gather it behind Drew MacIntyre’s net before feeding the puck to Sissons for his fifth goal of the season.
With 1:30 left in the game the Checkers scored the game-winner. Carrick’s initial shot kicked up on Mazanec and he didn’t know where the puck spilled to. Di Giuseppe was able to bash in the loose puck in the crease for his third goal of the season – putting an end to a dramatic 5-4 defeat for the Admirals in Charlotte.
Ramblings: Tonight’s healthy scratches were Frederick Gaudreau and Jimmy Oligny. With the scratch tonight Gaudreau has now played in less games this season than any current Admiral forward.
Thoughts on tonight’s game? Is the scoreline a reflection of two teams just trying to be too up-tempo? What are your thoughts on the Admirals line brawl and subsequent goalie fight by Magnus Hellberg? What should be expected in tomorrow’s rematch?
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Pontus Aberg scored a beauty of a goal in his North American pro debut against the Charlotte Checkers. He has since popped in five more on the season. (Photo Credit: Scott Paulus)
When we last saw these Charlotte Checkers it was opening night. That seems like ages ago already, doesn’t it? The Admirals offense rocked them 6-3 in that game and gave us a glimpse into just what our young forwards can do. Especially one Pontus Åberg. I still feel that first game of the season gave us our best goal to date.
You can still watch that goal again-and-again and still make the same facial reaction that Brendan Leipsic had in the corner. Egad!
~Checkers Recap~
Considering the whole season has transpired so far since we last saw these guys there is plenty to look at. The Charlotte Checkers currently have a record of 5-11-1-0 (11 points) and are seated at the bottom of the West Division with the Iowa Wild (11 points). Charlotte is currently on a three-game losing streak – during which they were outscored 13-5.
The Checkers join the Milwaukee Admirals, Grand Rapids Griffins, and Lake Erie Monsters for the least amount of games played in the AHL this season at 17 games. For those curious, the St. John’s IceCaps and Springfield Falcons have logged the most games in the league this season with 22 games played.
If you like goal scoring… I’m afraid I’ve got some BAD NEWS. The Checkers have scored 37 goals as a team this season. That makes them second lowest in the Western Conference in scoring. Only Toronto Marlies have been worse in that department with only 29 goals scored from 18 games.
~Who, What, Who~
As you would now expect. Scoring has been few and far between for the Checkers. Their leading scorer is right winger Greg Nemisz with 13 points (8 goals, 5 assists) in 17 games. He is trailed be veteran forward Chad LaRose who has 9 points (2 goals, 7 assists) in an equal amount of games played.
In goal, things have been way more consistent for the Checkers from this season as opposed to last. They had used nine goaltenders during the 2013-14 season. We’re nearly at December now and, breathe Checkers fans, they’ve utilized the same battery that they started the season off with: Drew MacIntyre and John Muse.
Both goaltenders have had a hard go of it to start the season. MacIntyre has played the bulk to date, 13 games, and has lost 8 games while sporting a 2.87 goals against average and a 0.906 save percentage. Muse hasn’t faired much better in his 5 appearances, either. He has only 1 win on the season with a 2.72 goals against average and a 0.904 save percentage.
What are your expectations for the Admirals weekend set in Charlotte? Can the Admirals take all four-points? Scoreline predictions?
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“The Rich Clune Show” is here in Milwaukee. And I think we’re all going to love it. (Photo Credit: Scott Paulus)
The Admirals delivered just the right response from a team that had lost two-in-a-row last night. The had a strong start. The defense gave the Chicago Wolves no room to breath and get their offense rolling. You might say, well – the Wolves had those power-plays. But what did they really do from them? The Admirals penalty killing unit was perfect last night and they are ranked fifth in the AHL.
What may have been lost in the Rich Clune frenzy last night were these two things.
(1) Austin Watson recorded his 50th career AHL goal last night. He has 8 goals on this young season already from 17 games. He has improved his scoring rate with each season as an Admiral: 2012-13, 37 points (20 goals, 17 assists)… 2013-14, 46 points (22 goals, 24 assists). At the rate in which he is motoring on this season, a career best 0.65 points per game, he should continue with personal bests for scoring.
(2) Marek Mazanec was handed the net in a big game against a team seated higher than the Admirals in the division and he responded big time. It was his first win of the season since he started off the campaign with wins in his first 5 starts. He had lost 4 games consecutively and needed to rebound just as the Admirals did after the end to the weekend. Mazanec’s work on the penalty kill was solid and, best of all from him, he hardly coughed up rebounds. The only goal that was scored on him came from a net-front redirect by Dmitrij Jaškin. He could have had a shutout last night. He, and the defense in front of him, were outstanding and it allowed the offense to keep the motor running despite the odd penalty being taken here and there. Simply put. Two goalies. One net. One good problem to have.
After the game I had the chance to speak with Dean Evason, Rich Clune, Marek Mazanec, and Austin Watson. Here is what they all had to say following the Admirals 4-1 over the Chicago Wolves.
Almost a Gordie Howe hat trick for Rich Clune tonight. Scored the goal. Won a fight. Lacked the assist. Admirals won 4-1 over their Amtrak Rivals on Wednesday night. (Photo Credit: Scott Paulus)
The Admirals won 4-1 against the Chicago Wolves Wednesday night. This was a solid bounce back effort for the Admirals who really controlled the contest from the opening puck drop.
Goals from Pontus Aberg, Rich Clune, Miikka Salomaki, and Austin Watson were more than enough to help Marek Mazanec return to the win column for the first time since 10/24/14 against these very same Amtrak Rivals. The Czech stopped 22/23 shots on goal and was an anchor as the team went a perfect 4/4 on the penalty kill.
“[Marek Mazanec] competed his ass off tonight,” said head coach Dean Evason. “Tonight was probably the best game that I’ve seen him play.”
After a dominant start to the game – the Admirals capitalized on all that breakaway practice that they must have worked on after missing out on multiple chances this past weekend. Anthony Bitetto hit Pontus Aberg on a home run feed that sent him loose behind the Wolves defense and in on Matt Climie. It was a crafty finish with speed for the young Swede who buried his sixth goal of the season to give the Admirals a 1-0 first period lead.
In the second period the Admirals scored off of another breakaway chance. Rich Clune was able to collect a puck out of the Wolves bench-side area of the ice. It looked as if the Wolves defense thought the puck was still along the wall when Clune broke in off the right wing wall for a breakaway that he finished through the five hole of Climie. It’s his first goal as an Admiral and first AHL goal since 12/8/12 as a member of the Manchester Monarchs scoring against the Connecticut Whale.
“Like a kid in a candy store,” said Rich Clune of getting a breakaway opportunity. “It’s probably the most exciting thing for a forward to get a one-on-one with about a full-zone to think about what you are going to do.”
Clune’s excitement spilled right into a fight only seconds after scoring. He and Petteri Lindbohm met up along the left wing boards and dropped the mitts. Clune was nearly punching Lindbohm into his own Chicago bench. Give the win in your fight cards to Clune.
The Wolves managed to pull back a goal before the close of the second period. Brent Regner’s shot was redirected in-close by Dmitrij Jaskin. Marek Mazanec had little to no time to react on the deflection and Jaskin had his third goal of the season.
The Admirals got their two-goal cushion back midway through the third period. Felix Girard had an impressive drive off the left wing wall and cut all the way in on net. All Girard could do, whilst being defended, was chuck a one-handed shot on Climie. The drive and save bowled over Climie and he wasn’t able to deny Miikka Salomaki from scoring his fourth goal of the season on the follow up.
Austin Watson scored the empty netter to seal this contest at 4-1. Watson scored off of Lindbohm making a last ditch effort to become a professional goaltender. The shot went off his leg and in for Watson’s eighth goal of the season and fiftieth of his AHL playing career.
In the on ice post-game interview Clune described the Chicago Wolves as a soft hockey team.
“I would be nice to them if they just shut their mouths and took what was coming to them,” said Clune of the Wolves. “But they seemed to like to throw personal comments out toward me. None of them are really tough enough to really deal with me in a fight. They just don’t match up with us at all, toughness and speed. I love running them over every night.”
Ramblings: Prior to the game, the Milwaukee Admirals announced that Patrick Cehlin would be assigned to the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL. It will mean Cehlin logging his first games of the 2014-15 season after off-season hip surgery. The St. Louis Blues goaltending situation impacted the entire organization: Brian Elliott suffered a lower-body injury, Jake Allen assumed the top netminding role, Jordan Binnington was called up from the Wolves to back-up, and Cody Reichard was signed to a PTO by the Wolves from the Indy Fuel of the ECHL – all that without mentioning Martin Brodeur’s comeback on try-out basis with St. Louis starting on Friday. Tonight’s scratches for the Admirals were all healthy scratches and included Frederick Gaudreau and Jimmy Oligny. The win for the Admirals tonight puts them ahead of the Wolves in the Midwest Division and Western Conference standings.
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Patrick Cehlin’s return road to Milwaukee starts in Cincy. (Photo Credit: Scott Paulus)
In the coming weeks Milwaukee Admirals coach Dean Evason might have another forward at his disposal. Today the team announced that Patrick Cehlin would be assigned to the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL.
As Daniel Lavenderreported on Sunday, the spark plug forward is currently working on regaining his fitness as he recovers from off-season hip surgery. With Milwaukee’s forwards plenty stockpiled at present, Cehlin is now on his way to the Queen City to accelerate his recovery and log his first games of the 2014-15 hockey season.
The Stockholm, Sweden native is in his third minor league season within the Nashville Predators organization, accumulating 41 assists and 56 points in 108 American Hockey League contests in the two years prior.
Coach Dean Evason had this say about the bout, via Lavender’s Admirals Roundtable recap:
“There is no way that Patrick Cehlin cuts his tie-down,” exclaimed Evason. “He’s never been in a fight. They say that it came off too easy. Which is indication that they feel that we doctored it in some way. I don’t understand it.”
Cehlin was previously sent down to the ECHL for one game back in 2012-13, where he scored an empty net goal in a 3-1 win. The speedy Cehlin was Nashville’s fifth-round pick in 2010, chosen 126th overall. He could appear with the Cyclones as early as tonight as Cincinnati hosts Evansville, before a weekend series at the Indy Fuel.
So Roundtable . . . Is there a place for Patrick Cehlin with Milwaukee once he’s back up to full speed? Are you excited at the prospect of having him back in the near future?
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Someone should tell Benn Ferriero that Colton Sissons has the puck. (Photo Credit: Scott Paulus)
Welp, it’s a rematch of the Amtrak Rivalry game held in Milwaukee this past Friday. The Admirals were able to get the better of the Wolves 3-2 (OT). Considering how close we are to that game. It’s worth rewinding some material to get a refresher course for this head-to-head:
This game comes after two-successive defeats for the Admirals. It’s only the second time this season that they have lost two-in-a-row. And their current record finds them exactly where they were prior to the losses: third in the Midwest Division and fifth in the Western Conference. In fact, they still have a better winning percentage (0.719) than the Wolves do (0.658).
~Huddle Up~
When reflecting back on the two losses for the Admirals this past weekend… 3-2 in Rockford… 2-1 (SO) in Iowa… you have to say that they didn’t really play all that bad.
The Admirals played speed for speed with the IceHogs and generated a season-high 40 shots on goal. The problem in that game was that Scott Darling was in net and made 38 saves.
Then, for the third straight time, the Iowa Wild took down the Admirals. The two played like you may expect from a pair of squads finishing three-in-three weekends. The play was sluggish. Passes weren’t connecting. And the finishing touch wasn’t there… until the final such and such minutes of the game, anyways.
If you’re thinking these two defeats should be concerning for the Ads. Don’t worry. Even in these losses there were positives. I don’t expect some sort of shake-up in lines or who is playing. It’s all a matter of taking it in stride and finding the back of the net.
~Since We Last Met~
The Wolves, like the Admirals, endured a three-in-three weekend. They followed up the OT defeat in Milwaukee with a 3-2 win against the Wild. The Sunday clash saw them go up against the IceHogs and get blanked by Mac Carruth in a 3-0 loss.
That Saturday game with Iowa, as is the case now-a-days, wasn’t easy. The Wolves overcame a 2-0 first period deficit to win that one. As for that top two of the Midwest battle… it would be a game like –that– that would frustrate me a whole lot more than what the Admirals went through. So many things were done right for the Wolves until… that final third of the ice. The goals for the IceHogs were very opportunistic. And the Wolves fell flat in a game they could have just as easily won.
Which team is going to get the rebound win tonight? Do you feel the Admirals should shuffle the forward or defensive lines? How about goaltending… Should Marek Mazanec be given the chance to play tonight’s game in light of Magnus Hellberg‘s first defeat of the season?
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The 2011 NHL Draft was held at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time it wasn’t certain whether or not Magnus Hellberg would be in attendance for the draft or not. He was two-years older than most goaltenders of his draft class and was under the assumption that he would be a late-round pick – at best.
Only four days prior to the day of the draft Hellberg made a phone call to his agent to get him to Minnesota so that he could enjoy the experience of being there. No expectations. No idea which teams could be looking to add him. No clue where he would be selected.
In the 2nd Round, with the 38th Overall Selection, the Nashville Predators made Hellberg the first goaltender that was selected in the 2011 NHL Draft. To think that this moment almost didn’t happen. Only seven years prior he nearly stopped playing the game that he loved.
The Milwaukee Admirals have now lost three straight games to the woeful Iowa Wild. (Photo Credit: Scott Paulus)
The Admirals lost in a shootout 2-1 on the road against the Iowa Wild Sunday evening. There were no goals scored until the final two-minutes of play and the Ads needed a goal from Austin Watson, with the extra attacker on the ice, to force overtime with forty-eight seconds remaining. Sadly for the Ads – earning that lone point would be the best they could do tonight as the Wild claimed the lot from the shootout.
There was no score after the opening twenty-minutes. Yet, the shooting output that we saw from the Admirals last night in Rockford appeared to spill over into Iowa. The Ads ripped fourteen shots on Wild goaltender John Curry in the first period. Curry came up huge with a late Admiral surge coming from a five-on-three power-play opportunity to make sure the game stayed deadlocked heading into the first intermission.
Through two periods of play there was still no goal scoring. The teams traded quality chances within seconds of each-other just as an Admirals power-play expired. Triston Grant had an opportunity to score his first goal of the season as he was stationed out in front of Curry. The Wild defended the centering pass well and instantly countered with a home run feed to Jordan Schroeder as he exited the penalty box. He had a clean breakaway but Magnus Hellberg was able to shut the door on him to keep things scoreless.
With 2:23 remaining in regulation the game received its first goal. Schroeder was racing in on another breakaway for the Wild and Hellberg flew from his net for a flying poke check. The puck went over to Tyler Graovac who outwaited Hellberg’s last ditch dive and fired past the make-shift goaltender Anthony Bitetto for his sixth goal of the season.
Hellberg came to the bench and the Admirals burned their timeout to press for a final minute attack in the hopes of avoiding a backbreaking defeat. It may not have been exactly what they drew up but we’ll all take it. Brendan Leipsic’s shot from the point was coughed up by Curry and right into the path of Austin Watson as he crashed the net. He popped home his team leading seventh goal of the season to force overtime with forty-eight seconds remaining in regulation.
Considering how the game was played, it may have been fitting that the game would go all the way to a shootout so that either Hellberg or Curry could decide things in goal. Unfortunately, like their recent string of bad luck from breakaways, the Admirals were not able to score a single shootout attempt against Curry. Zack Phillips would score the lone shootout goal from a snapshot low to the blocker side of Hellberg.
This is the first time the Admirals have lost to a team in Iowa since 2/28/09 when the Chops were around. The Ads were a perfect seven-for-seven dating back to last season against the Wild in Iowa prior to tonight’s shootout loss. The Wild have now won three-straight games against the Admirals this season. It also means that Hellberg’s perfect start to his 2014-15 season has come to an end.
Ramblings: After last night’s defeat in Rockford – the Admirals decided to rotate some players. Joe Pendenza came back into the lineup in-place of Frederick Gaudreau and Jonathan Diaby stepped in for Jimmy Oligny on defense. All went as healthy scratches. Patrick Cehlin still remains out as he regains fitness from off-season hip surgery.
Is there cause for concern that a team like the Iowa Wild are getting the better of the Milwaukee Admirals? With each team playing the last of a three-in-three, was the inability to find the back of the net down to fatigue or was John Curry just good enough tonight?
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This is as about as hockey of a photo as there is in the entire Iowa Wild photo gallery. (Photo Credit: Iowa Wild // flickr)
For as poor as the Iowa Wild have been this season they’ve been a slight thorn in the Admirals side in the last two meetings. Nothing flashy. Nothing cute. It’s just been a matter of them getting the better of the Ads: 4-2 on 10/29/14 and 3-2 on 11/12/14. Luckily, today’s meeting isn’t on a Wednesday nor in Milwaukee… if that had anything to do with those results.
~How’s The New Skipper Doing?~
Since the Wild fired Kurt Kleinendorst and replaced him with John Torchetti they have gone 2-2-1-0 (5 points). The Torchetti era may have started with two wins from two games but they’ve since reverted to a three game losing streak. Mind you. All of those defeats were by a one goal margin – including games with the Oklahoma City Barons and road games in Rockford and Chicago.
~Swedish Goalies Everywhere!~
I feel the key for this evening’s game is actually pretty simple -if- this man plays: Johan Gustafsson. Despite what his overall numbers suggest… 2-5-1-0 record from 13 games played… 3.49 goals against average… 0.894 save percentage… in his last two games against the Admirals he was a major difference maker in the result: 10/29/14, 37 saves and 2 goals allowed… 11/12/14, 26 saves and 2 goals allowed.
If the Admirals can muster up the same level of play that they threw down on the road last night in Rockford, 40 shots on goal, the should be able to have a better go of things against Gustafsson… in theory. I would anticipate Swedes at both ends of the rink tonight with Magnus Hellberg returning to the net after Marek Mazanec was rotated into the fold last night. Got to keep the hot hand hot, right?
Thoughts for tonight’s game in Iowa? Can the Admirals rebound from their previous defeats to Iowa and last night’s result? Scoreline prediction?
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