Milwaukee hosts Chicago tonight at 6 PM.
Milwaukee is 3-0 against the Wolves.
The 7th and last place Wolves have 5 points in 7 GP. The 2nd place Ads have 16 points in 9 GP. First place Grand Rapids has 17 points in 12 GP.
Last season, the Ads were 10-2 vs Chicago.
There are at least 500 fans sitting in the 400 Level, so I expect a big crowd on Veterans Night! Team President Jon Greenberg just announced that 5000 tickets were sold to Veterans, so probably 7500 fans. (The Vets get a discount on up to 6 tickets)
Edit: It was 9234 fans!!!
Matt Murray is in goal. Gravel and Livingstone on D. Lucchini on LW, Hinostroza at C and Schaefer at RW.
The Ads miss a very open looking net 2 minutes into the game. Chicago with a bad line change. They had about TEN on the ice. No call. Brind'Amour interfered with and got his stick up into Kemell's faceshield. No call. Livingstone had problems getting onto the Ads bench. Tired or leg injury? Tired.
Chicago gets the first penalty about 9 minutes into the game, for Slashing. The Ads had 2 SOG and a lot of whiffs on the puck. They are making Perets look good in goal, when he looks shaky (5.00 GAA). Ref Peter "Tarnation" Tarnaris doesn't see Ozzy hooked to the ice from 40 feet away. Suzuki tries to put Angello in a headlock on a face off and gets knocked onto his butt! Suzuki goes straight to the bench. Suzuki was holding Ufko's stick so he could not get a breakaway. No call. Ufko dragged him 30 feet towards the Chicago goal.
Kemell gets 2 minutes for Closing his hand on the puck. That was in the nearest corner and it didn't happen. The "penalty" will carry over for 1:33. SOG were 10-4 Wolves, mostly because the Ads keep missing the net with their shots. No score.
After the Ads killed the penalty, not much happened until a second penalty. That was also killed, then a Wolves player (Brind'Amour) poked at Murray AFTER the whistle. Marino and another Ads player went after him in the SW corner. Then almost everybody was pushing and shoving. Ads get 4 minutes, Wolves get 2 minutes. It was killed off, then Chicago was called for a minor.
#8 for Chicago was just punching Kemell in the back and then cross checked him. No call. Chicago for Too Many Men. I guess 8 is enough? No, it was for Slashing Angello, then skating to the bench. The Ads have terrible passing tonight. The puck floated through the air in the crease and the Ads still don't score! Schaefer was mugged in the neutral zone by Jaaska. Mutter just crushed a guy at the other end. He didn't get up for about 10 seconds. Ads with an Interference penalty. If that was a penalty, Chicago should have been called for five of those by now! The crowd is getting angry at the refs with 4:30 remaining in the period. Ozzy was roughing up somebody in front of the Chicago bench and NO call. My guess is that Ozzy was getting even for things that happened to him in this game.
The refs just missed a Wolves player taking out Kemell's legs! All 4 of the other Ads skaters were chasing him for 2 or 3 laps around the ice! I have never seen that in 60 years of going to hockey games. So 71 and Kemell get 2 minutes each. Karl Taylor is livid! When they came out of the box, Kemell wanted to fight that chicken!
With 31 seconds left in the period, a scrum occurs while Chicago has EIGHT players on the ice to the Ads six. No penalty for Too Many Men. This is absolute Bullshit by refs Peter Tarnaris and Ibrahim Arifi. I expect a brawl in period 3! SOG are 23-12 Chicago.
Period 3 begins 4-on-3 Wolves advantage. A four person collision at the Blue line. Two Ads, 1 Wolves player and a Linesman. Big hits in the first 3 minutes by Milwaukee. Ozzy has thrown 3 of them. He is definitely playing angry! So are some of the other Admirals fowards.
Karl Taylor pointing at the Wolves end and screaming in Tarnaris' face! Morrow, #55, jumps an Ads player LONG after the whistle and 2 other Admirals smashed him into the endboards! No calls. Chicago gets a minor for Elbowing Kemell in the head, and Ozzy (1) scores in seconds! Hinostroza with the assist. Chicago comes down the ice and ties it 8 seconds later on a bad angle shot.
At 9:56, the Wolves get a minor for Boarding? I never heard an announcement. They also did not announce that the penalty was over. No shots on the PP. Schaefer with a reverse hit in the NE corner. Chicago shoots the puck after the whistle, little reaction to that by the Ads. The face off comes out of the Ads zone. 28 hits Kemell in the face with a stick, for the second time in this game. He got 2 minutes.
Schaefer tripped at the offensive blue line and NO CALL. I guess it is okay to trip the puck carrier? Schaefer cross checked in the face the next shift. Ref Arifi makes no call. He is a real piece of work, a gutless wonder!
He was 15 feet away and looking at it.
Chicago scores on a deflection shot with 6.5 seconds left. About a third of the crowd left with me. Chicago got a penalty with 2 seconds left. Probably the usual BS on the face off! Milwaukee lost the offensive zone face off that was a chance to tie the game. SOG were 37-19 Chicago. Game over.
The Admirals 8 game win streak came to an ignominious end. They were out skated and out shot in every period. Milwaukee played hockey for about 10 minutes. Matt Murray deserved better.
There was no flow in the game after the first period. The refs could have called 2 or 3 times as many penalties as they did. Those seem like contradictory statements!
The two refs deserve the death penalty. Too bad that we don't execute in Wisconsin. Maybe they can be sent to the ECHL? They should no longer be working in the AHL!!!
Milwaukee plays at Chicago at 3 PM tomorrow. If #71 is in the line up, expect him to be beaten to a pulp in all three periods. He took out both of Kemell's legs from behind in the neutral zone, then ran like a true coward for the next 45 seconds. That should have been an ejection for Slewfooting With Intent to Injure! He got 2 minutes and Kemell, his victim, got 2 minutes. It was DISGUSTING.
That was #71 LW Gleb Trikozov. In six games, he had ZERO PIMs. He should have had a bunch in this game!!!
Chicago targeted Kemell with a lot of illegal conduct in the whole game. Two can play that game, Chicago Goon Squad.
Don't be surprised if the PIMs hit 200 tomorrow. I would never put up with what I saw tonight. There needs to be retribution, because the refs don't protect the Admirals players at all this season.
Edit: Just to be fair, Soundgarden gave me a thumbs up for the first 6 lines in this post, not all of the rest.