Making 21 saves, Sebastian Cossa beat Milwaukee 3-2
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Chalk up his first pro victory for Detroit Red Wings goalie of the future Sebastian Cossa. In his American Hockey League debut, Cossa (15th overall 2021) won a battle of first-round picks against Nashville Predators prospect
Yaroslav Askarov (11th overall, 2020).
Making 21 saves, Cossa was backstopping the Griffins to a 3-2 home-ice victory over the Milwaukee Admirals on Wednesday at Van Andel Arena.
“If felt great,” Cossa said. “I was a little nervous going into the first one tonight.”
Friday, Cossa was stopping 27-of-29 shots as he led the Toledo Walleye to a 6-2 victory over Kalamazoo in an ECHL preseason game. He was recalled to Grand Rapids the next day.
Griffins coach Ben Simon indicated that the plan was to give each of the three goalies with Grand Rapids – Cossa,
Jussi Olkinuora and Victor Brattstrom – each a start during the first three games of the AHL season.
Cossa, 19, is doing his best to
focus on stopping the puck and not on when and where he’ll be doing that puckstopping.
“Obviously there’s a lot of things going on with the goalie coaches right now technique wise. Just keeping my feet underneath me, keeping good angles to the shooters, releasing off the shot, stuff like that.
“I think the biggest thing for me right now is the work ethic. They have the coaches here that are going to help me develop. I just gotta put the work.”
“I think I’ve taken it in stride,” Cossa said. “There’s a lot of good vets and coaches around helping me in my process. Also quite a bit of guys who are doing this for the first time. We’re all kind of bouncing heads off each other, trying to make it as easy as possible.
“Personally for me, it’s taking it day by day for now and just
continuing to develop and working as hard as I can. I think I’ve made the jump pretty smoothly so far. I’ll just continue to do that.”