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Be careful. The Okhotiuk fans will be after you.
Greer should be sent down no later than 4/04 to avoid waivers if my math is correct.
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2021-22 Utica Comets and ECHL thread - part V
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Greer should be sent down no later than 4/04 to avoid waivers if my math is correct.
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Seems like a nice add stylistically for the Comets too. Should bolster the bottom six a bit.
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AHL trade deadline is tomorrow at 3 pm ET. Not expecting much.
Cleveland, Lehigh Valley, and San Jose are ten points out. Tucson is nine points out.
Cleveland has the most intriguing players:
C
Justin Scott
Tyler Sikura
Kevin Stenlund
Cole Cassels
Adam Helewka
D
Thomas Schemitsch
Dillon Simpson
Lehigh Valley:
D Adam Clendening
C Cal O'Reilly
San Jose:
Tucson:
Cleveland, Lehigh Valley, and San Jose are ten points out. Tucson is nine points out.
Cleveland has the most intriguing players:
C
Justin Scott
Tyler Sikura
Kevin Stenlund
Cole Cassels
Adam Helewka
D
Thomas Schemitsch
Dillon Simpson
Lehigh Valley:
D Adam Clendening
C Cal O'Reilly
San Jose:
Tucson:
3 of the 9 have been Comets in the past.
4 of these guys are Vets, 4 are VEs, and 1 is under the VE numbers by AHL rules. The Comets play the maximum 5 every night on most occasions every game:
Gauthier C
Deleo C/LW
Flynn/RW/
Russo
Wotherspoon
Greer VE
That is the max that can play. I wouldn't replace Greer with any of the VEs on this list.
The Comets could really use a center who puts up points and sets up his wings big time. O'Reilly could be that. He is the only one of the centers i would want and he is a vet.
Comets being deployed as centers are:
Deleo
Gauthier
Schmelzer
Talvitie
Flynn
1 Deleo also plays very well as a LW.
Zetterlund, Foote, Gambardella, and Greer are my LWs. Leave Chase alone.
LWs .
2 Gauthier has been solid and has been putting up points. He stays.
3 Schmelzer plays a steady game, pots some goals, matches them with assists, and kills penalties. Dineen says he is a key leader in the lockeroom.
4 Flynn is a better RW than center.
5 Talvitie is a 4th line center and hasn't been bad. He can also play RW.
If the Comets could acquire a top AHL center, O'Reilly is the only guy off the list you have posted I would consider. However, if he played, a vet would have to sit.
Dineen will not healthy scratch Russo or Wotherspoon. So, that means the scratch would have to come from Deleo, Flynn, or Gauthier.
Who do you remove so he can play? I'd have to say Flynn's 19 points make him the odd man out if O'Reilly continued to be a consistent point maker. Right now only Deleo is the only Comets center close to Cal's current total of 42Pts/59GP on the Atlantic Division's last place Lehigh Valley Phantoms team and Deleo has played a lot of games on the wing.
O'Reilly would be one of the 4 centers. Flynn would sit. Talvitie would play RW.
I posted this yesterday but these are the guys I have in the lineup if all are healthy:
LW
Zetterlund
Gambardella
Foote
Greer
RW
Holtz
Thompson
Flynn
Clarke
C
Deleo
Gauthier
Schmelzer
Talvitie
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you know what's really respectable about halonen? mech engineering degree, which ain't no joke, esp at mich tech
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That seems bizarre if they really did just use 2 of their 4 regular call ups for these guys. Why for one game? At least they both played.
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It was two games for Bahl and three for Greer. Just a cup of coffee. Utica plays the second of a B2B tonight.
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To be fair, Devils will soon have like 15 forwards and 8 D on the roster. They’re not going to have much space for callups anyways.
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but I thought they were sent down to end the emergency recall on 3/26 or 3/27, and then both were called back up on 3/27?
maybe a better question is: how do the 4 call-ups work? is it per transaction (so, a player called up, sent down, then called up again would count twice)? Or is it per player (in which case, since it's the same player getting called up twice, they'd only count as a single call up)?
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Not expecting much, because there simply is not much out there with the expanded playoffs format.
Teams are unlikely to part with their younger players.
The key phrase being if all are healthy. Depth continues to be an issue.
UticaHockey
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And I still expect two more Comets call ups for similar cups of coffee. It's about rewarding guys for their efforts in Utica this year, not meant to become regulars in the lineup for the next month.
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It's pretty much Spring camp in NJ at this point of the season.
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or players on NHL contracts who were on AHL rosters at the NHL deadline for trade.
NHL players can be loaned to AHL teams.
Philippe Myers is an example.
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He will sign an American Hockey League Amateur Tryout Contract (ATO) and report to Utica this week.
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Halonen could fit into a top-6 role as well as receiving some time on the power play for the Comets. He could get a look as a net-front position on the man-advantage.
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I feel Thompson may play center in Utica. He played it his final year in college and really, the Comets are loaded on the wings. You could theoretically run with the following.
DeLeo - Thompson - Holtz
Zetterlund - Gauthier - Halonen
Greer - Schmelzer - Foote
Flynn - Talvitie - Clarke
Bahl - Russo
Okhotiuk - Walsh
Wotherspoon - Vukojevic
Daws
Schmidt
DeLeo - Thompson - Holtz
Zetterlund - Gauthier - Halonen
Greer - Schmelzer - Foote
Flynn - Talvitie - Clarke
Bahl - Russo
Okhotiuk - Walsh
Wotherspoon - Vukojevic
Daws
Schmidt
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For any player yet to realize that reality, Sunday afternoon’s home date with the desperate Bridgeport Islanders surely drove that message home. Bridgeport overcame Rochester leads of 2-0 and 5-3 and carried the game to overtime when Michael Dal Colle punched in a rebound with 6.2 seconds remaining in regulation. From there, the Amerks saw the definition of experience in Bridgeport’s Chris Terry when he finished off the 6-5 overtime win on a two-on-none rush. Bridgeport, in a playoff fight of its own, swept a road swing through Utica, Toronto, and Rochester to barrel into a playoff spot, sixth in the Atlantic Division at 27-25-6-4 (.516).
The Amerks, meanwhile, lost a lead at home to the Marlies to begin the weekend with a 3-2 shootout loss, slipped in a 5-1 road defeat to the Syracuse Crunch, and then surrendered the third-period two-goal advantage against Bridgeport. The weekend’s struggles pushed Rochester down to the North Division’s sixth-place spot at 30-24-5-3 (.548).
That puts them just .034 away from the second-place Laval Rocket in the points percentage column. But in the unforgiving North Division standings, it also puts the Amerks below the playoff line.
More high-pressure games are staring down the Amerks. The final month of the season includes three meetings with Utica (the first coming this Wednesday), three with Laval, and two with Belleville.
So it’s tight. The pressure is fully on.
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Schmid has started 16 of 22 games since his return from recall on 2/04. Mitens has started three of the last four including the last two.
Schmid since return to AHL on 2/04: .898 2.93 9-6-1
Schmid since return to AHL on 2/19 (played one NHL game and missed one AHL game): .916 2.71 6-4-1
Schmid February: .906 2.99 5-3
Schmid March: .900 2.99 4-3-1
Schmid went from leading the AHL in SV% and GAA to tenth and ninth respectively.
Corrections welcome.
Schmid since return to AHL on 2/04: .898 2.93 9-6-1
Schmid since return to AHL on 2/19 (played one NHL game and missed one AHL game): .916 2.71 6-4-1
Schmid February: .906 2.99 5-3
Schmid March: .900 2.99 4-3-1
Schmid went from leading the AHL in SV% and GAA to tenth and ninth respectively.
Corrections welcome.
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I think Schmid has suffered from having his confidence shaken a little by being rushed to the NHL too soon and then being overworked when he returned to Utica. I'm glad Mitens has gotten some starts recently to take some of the workload off Schmid. I really liked what I saw in Schmid's game early in the season and I'm confident he can get back there again. He looked so poised in the net early on.
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