After a week off, the Admirals play in Winnipeg versus the Moose. The Ads have won 6 in a row.
Ozzy will be playing tonight, after missing a game.
Last year, the Ads won 5 of 8 games versus the Moose, 3 of those on the road.
The western Canadian Matt Murray will be in goal, seeking his 5th win of the season, with .940%
The Admirals have 14 Canadian born players on the roster this year. I expect a good effort.
Karl Taylor mentioned that the Ads have been winning 47% of face offs. He wants that to be 55%.
The other starters were Jake Livingstone and Kevin Gravel on defense. Lucchini centers Vinnie Hinostroza with Reid Schaefer on the left wing. Lucchini is wearing an A in place of Del Gaizo.
Schaefer (5) scores 7 minutes into the game on the blocker side, Hinostroza (8) gets his AHL leading 12th point (7 game point streak) and Lucchini (4) had the second assist.
In the last 10 seconds, Kieffer Bellows (4) scored a PPG with assists to Fedor Svechkov (2) and Vinnie Hinostroza (9) to make it 2-0 Admirals.
Milwaukee gets another PP carrying over to Period 2. The SOG were 10-8 Moose. The Moose were 0 for 3 on the PP. The Ads were 1 for 2 so far, with a 1:50 still coming in Period 2.
Adam Wilsby was playing with Ryan Ufko; Nick Blankenburg with Luke Prokop on defense.
Ozzy is playing with Ratcliffe and Angello? I think that was a partial line change.
The PK1 is O'Reilly and Kemell.
PK2 is Lucchini and Schaefer with Wilsby and Blankenburg.
PK3 was Angello and (?) with Wilsby and Blankenburg.
The PP1 was Ozzy, Vinnie and Bellows with Svechkov and Blankenburg.
In Period 2, the Moose scored about 3 minutes in to make it 2-1 Admirals.
The Moose scored a shorty to make it 2-2. On the NEXT face off, Reid Schaefer (6) scored an unassisted PPG backhander over the glove to make it 3-2 Ads.
That was Milwaukee's second PPG of the game with 7:15 remaining in Period 2. (This is the first time this season in eight games that Milwaukee has scored two PPGs in a game.) The SOG were 10-8 Moose again. The totals are 20 to 16, so far.
In period 3, Milwaukee scored a third PPG at 6:56 via Blankenburg (3) "with a hammer of a shot" and assists going to Hinostroza (10) and Bellows (3) to make it 4-2 Milwaukee. They have 4 goals on 20 SOG tonight. That makes the third assist for Hinostroza tonight. Three of 4 on the PP!
O'Reilly has been the center for Ozzy and Ratcliffe in this period, if not for the whole game. The Moose pulled their goalie, Thomas Milic, with about 3 minutes remaining. The Admirals kept sending long shots that missed the empty net. Blankenburg nearly scored an ENG on a bank shot. It was stopped in the crease. Schaefer just missed a hat trick at the end of the game.
The Ads win their 7th game in a row!
The SOG were 12-8 Moose and 32-24 overall. The Moose had a lot of SOG in the last three minutes. The Ads had 8 SOG in each period.
Schaefer was the #1 Star and Murray was the #3 Star of the Game with 30 saves.
These two teams play again tomorrow night at 6 PM CT.