2021-22 Utica Comets and ECHL thread - part V

[Tao Jersey Jones]

Another Amerks PP goal after Daws misses way wide on his shot attempt.

4-2

 

[Bad Goalie]

Comets win the draw and send it down.

Daws goes for a goal and it's wide.

Score on the PP 6 on 4.

:49 seconds to go.

4-2 Comets.

 

[Tao Jersey Jones]

 

[Bad Goalie]

Houser is gone again.

6 on 5

Daws gets it in the crease and he is mawled by Amerks and he is not happy.

10 seconds to go.

Win a F***ING draw Schmelzer.

Amerks coach trying to draw up a 2-goal score.

 

[My3Sons]

Did I read the box score correctly - 21 shots in the third for the Amerks?

 

[Tao Jersey Jones]

Final SOG 33-32 Utica.

21-7 Rochester in the third.

Three Stars: 1. UTI - A. Greer 2. UTI - F. Zetterlund 3. UTI - N. Daws​

 

[Tao Jersey Jones]

Laval and Syracuse are in Game 5 OT.

 

[My3Sons]

Important win for Daws. Hopefully he can play well in the next one.

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

Nice response. Good to see.

 

[Forge]

Greer was such an underrated acquisition in the Isles trade. I get that he's not going to be an NHL regular, but what he does at the AHL level for that team, helping them win games and help establish a winning culture is important for the guys who are going to be NHL regulars.

 

[My3Sons]

Greer was such an underrated acquisition in the Isles trade. I get that he's not going to be an NHL regular, but what he does at the AHL level for that team, helping them win games and help establish a winning culture is important for the guys who are going to be NHL regulars.

With the last couple of seasons showing a few late bloomers I’m not sure Greer can’t claw his way into the NHL. He probably needs more than a token callup though.

 

[Jack Be Quick]

Absolutely foul 3rd period but they're going back to Utica and that's what matters.

Who are these officials btw? Garbage.

I'm glad Daws made Dineen's decision about who to start on Thursday an easy one.

 

[Bad Goalie]

He did it!!!!!!!!!!!!! He won the draw.

Going back to UTICA!

4-2 Comets.

Super effort by the boys to man.

Nico redemption this evening. 30 of 32 and many of them more than the better variety.

The 5 -man sag does not work!!!!!!!!!!!!

It took Dineen 75 games, 2 of which were the last 2 playoff games before tonight to figure it out. Playing the body no matter where the puck carrier is in your own zone and arriving at the next man when its passed to him, etc, etc is how you keep teams from running around in open space. They were only able to do that tonight late in the game with 2-man advantages due to penalty calls. It resulted in 2 goals for them.

Ken Dryden explained this issue eloquently in his book "The Game" (the best hockey book ever written). He said the fan will never understand it and the players learn to accept it and try hard not to fall victim to it. The refs are influenced by hostile crowds in home buildings. However, the biggest non written rule they follow is to manage the game. They don't want scores to get out of hand. They will even up calls even though they believe in their hearts they are not doing it.

5 PPS for the Amerks in the 3rd period with 3 in the last 10 minutes speaks for itself. It still took them until the last 5 minutes to get 2, both on PPs and the last one came in a 6 on 4 situation with :50 seconds left.

 

[UticaHockey]

Important win for Daws. Hopefully he can play well in the next one.

I was 100% wrong on Daws. I wanted Schmid in this game but Nico came up huge.

 

[Tao Jersey Jones]

Rocket win it in OT.

 

[Guttersniped]

Rocket win it in OT.

 

[Tao Jersey Jones]

 

[Bad Goalie]

Did I read the box score correctly - 21 shots in the third for the Amerks?

Hard to run any offense killing penalties often vs 2-man advantages due to a pulled keeper. These refs might as well be wearing Rochester warmups.

 

[Tao Jersey Jones]

With GMTF being in town I wonder he set Dineen free of Ruff's "system".

 

[UticaHockey]

Hard to run any offense killing penalties often vs 2-man advantages due to a pulled keeper. These refs might as well be wearing Rochester warmups.

Well one of them used to. Jordan Samuels-Thomas is a rookie ref this year and a former Amerks player.

 

[My3Sons]

Breaking news: Nikita Okhotyuk traded to the team farthest from NJ. When reached for comment NJ GM Ton Fitzgerald explained that he has no idea what league or continent that team may be part of but that’s where Okhotyuk is headed.

 

[Bad Goalie]

Well one of them used to. Jordan Samuels-Thomas is a rookie ref this year and a former Amerks player.

Hard to believe the AHL would risk the chance of bias as well as the claim of such by an opponent. As the ref, why would you accept that assignment? It reeks of heart in the wrong place calls right off the bat.

Breaking news: Nikita Okhotyuk traded to the team farthest from NJ. When reached for comment NJ GM Ton Fitzgerald explained that he has no idea what league or continent that team may be part of but that’s where Okhotyuk is headed.

Did you forget the sarcasm emoji?

 

[Tao Jersey Jones]

Dan Kelly is a player turned referee who reffed AHL games. There's another former Devil who did the same that's escaping me at the moment.

edit: Kory Nagy is who I was thinking of.

 

[Nubmer6]

Most of my posts are singular and and yet you see them keep piling up one after another. I even rebooted.

this one did it as well.

I think they changed the settings on the message board a week or two ago. Consecutive posts by the same person are now combined into one. The first couple days the option was enabled, there was a blue tag that said "Messages automatically combined" or something like that. Now it just combines them without the distraction.

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

With GMTF being in town I wonder he set Dineen free of Ruff's "system".

Not sure the system is the issue.

But one thing Dineen isn't forced to do is write names like Zacha, Hamilton, Severson or Bratt in the lineup.