The Admirals (41-19-1-0, 83 pts) host the third place Rockford IceHogs (30-23-5-2, 67 pts) on Dog Night. The Ads are on 3 game win streak. Rockford has gone 8-2 recently and would be the next team in the Central to clinch a playoff berth. The Ads are 4-2-1 against Rockford.
Gustavus Davis Grigals was called up from the Glads. I saw him in net for the last half of the warm ups.
Troy in net. The uninjured Del Gaizo and Wilsby on D. Wall centers Schaefer and Angello. Four guys down on the puck drop!
Rockford has a 6'8" Dman, #46 Louis Crevier. He looks like Chara.
The Ads have Dman Jeremy Hanzel in the line up. He is a mere 6'1", 200 pounds and likes to check people! I think he is on an ATO. Alex Campbell, 5'10", LW is the same, I believe.
Chara just made it 2-0 IceHogs. Allison scored for the Ads. We have seen 3 goals scored on just 5 shots. First one to 10 wins!
SOG were 7 to 5 Ads. Rockford leafing 2-1.
No goals scored in the last 10 minutes.
The IceHogs scored just after a PP expired. Ref Riley Brace, #49, is not calling a good game so far tonight. Ads puck carrier was just pulled down from behind in front of Brace. No call. Half a game of that is too much for me to take! He needs to work in the ECHL, where the pace is slower. Same for linesperson Peter Jenkin, #15. He can't drop the puck and he broke up a few Admirals rushes.
Michel Teply was tangled up with Troy in the crease. He was laying on top of Troy and making no attempt to get up, so Troy put an ankle lock on him and started twisting. No call was made. It is 3-1 refs, I mean Rockford. The SOG were 11-4 Rockford.
The Ads were shorthanded on several phantom calls by Blind Lemon Brace. He never sees any Rockford penalties. Maybe the WWE is the place for him?
With 14:54 remaining, the IceHogs have 2 guys in the box. Both calls were by Brace. Rockford goalie Comesso has injured his blocker hand with 1:02 left in the second penalty. Plenty of stalling before Stauber came in to play in goal. No PP goal for the Ads in a minute of 5-on-3.
L'Heureux was sat on behind the IceHogs goal line. Then his stick was pulled away from one direction and he was tripped from the opposite direction in the slot. No calls by the other "ref" Jarred Cummins, #2. The crowd is getting surly with 10 minutes remaining.
Rockford scored a SHG off a Dman's leg to make it 4-1. That is when I left. The 3 guys who made an effort tonight were Troy, who looked like the French-Canadian goalie from Slap Shot, Allison and Hanzel.
The final was 5-1.