[GDT] Flames vs Devils - Sunday Dec 7 @ 1:00pm (MST)

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Adirondack Flames (13-10-1-0) vs Albany Devils (New Jersey Devils) (11-7-1-4)


#39 - Brad Thiessen
Thiessen is an undrafted goalie who played 3 years in the NCAA with Northeastern University before signing with the Pittsburgh Penguins as a Free Agent and foregoing his 4th year. He played 5 games with the Penguins n 2011-12, but has spent the majority of his career in the AHL with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. He's also had stops in Norfolk (AHL), Wheeling (ECHL) and HIFK Helsinki (SM-Liiga). Thiessen is currently signed to a 1 year, two-way NHL contract.

Game Notes:

• This is the second of two meetings between Adirondack and Albany. The Devils beat the Flames 5-1 on October 11.
• The Flames have lost 3 of their last 4 games; Albany has won 4 of their last 6.
• Devils Brunner (F) cleared waivers and could be assigned to Albany for this game

Roster Notes:

• Markus Granlund (F), Sven Baertschi (F) and Michael Ferland (F) are up with the Calgary Flames .
• Ortio (G) should get the start for the Flames
• Van Brabant (F) has been suspended by the AHL for 1 game and will sit out tonight
  

Standings:

• Adirondack sits in 13th (out of 30 teams) in the AHL and 2nd in the North Division
• PP is 5th in the AHL at 20.4% (23/113)
• PK is 16th in the AHL at 82.5% (85/103)
• Ortio (G) is tied for 2nd in the AHL in wins (10), 4th in the AHL for minutes played (970:21) and 5th for saves (461)

Point Streaks and Notables:

• Arnold - 2G, 1A in 5GP
• Culkin - 1G, 7A in 10GP
• Cundari 1G, 7A in 10GP
• Hanowski - 7G in 10GP
• Knight - 4G, 2A in 9GP
• Poirier - 5G, 7A in 14GP
• Setoguchi - 1G, 2A in 2GP
• Vause - 3G, 3A in 8GP
• Wotherspoon - 4A in 6GP
• Baertschi - 3A in 3GP - Recalled by Flames
• Ferland - 3G, 5A in 5 GP - Recalled by Flames
• Granlund - 3G in 4GP - Recalled by Flames
• Wolf - 2G, 5A in 10GP - Injured

Injuries:

• David Wolf (Head/Neck) - Unknown. Returned to practice on Wednesday.
• Dustin Stevenson (Unknown) - Unknown. Is not skating with team.
• John Ramage (Unknown) - Unknown. Is not skating with team.
• Tyler Spurgeon (Lower Body Injury) - Unknown. Is not skating with team.

Preview from the Adirondack Flames : http://www.adirondackflames.com/news/?article_id=128

Preview from the Albany Devils : http://www.thealbanydevils.com/dec-7...vils-vs-flames

Listen Live : http://radio.securenetsystems.net/v5/WCQL

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[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

Ugh. Afternoon games... who needs 'em?

Glad Ortio's back in. He's started to look like the Ortio of last season.

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Ortio vs Kinkaid

Brunner was assigned to Albany today, but will not make it in time for the game.

Devils Lineup:

Whitney-Timmins-Thompson
Boucher-Black-Matteau
Sestito-Pelley-Thomson
Johnson-D. Zajac-Janssen

Fraser-Baier
Keenan-McPherson
Burlon-Faust

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Flames Scratches: Stevenson, Van Brabant (Suspended)

Ortio
Culkin-Potter
Agostino-Arnold-Poirier

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Two teams whose colours are black, white and red with big "A"'s on their jerseys. This could start blurring together here.

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Flames win the opening faceoff.

Albany clears the puck out of play almost off the faceoff so Flames to the PP!

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Zajac steals the puck and goes on a breakaway and huge save by Ortio

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Tousignant gets hooked by Zajac and back to the PP we go

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PP Unit #1 looks to be:

Vause-Arnold-Reid
Reinhart-Wotherspoon

PP Unit #2 looks to be:

Setoguchi-Hanowski-Poirier
Potter-Culkin

[btimbit]

Why is Van Brabant out? That knee last night? How long?

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Originally Posted by btimbit

Why is Van Brabant out? That knee last night? How long?

Yep, he got 1 game for kneeing

[Drury18]

Gillies vs Janssen.

Heavyweight battles at center ice.

Gillies just throwing lefts. Gillies taking huge shots at him, switches hands. Going for the body. Jansen's helmet off. Gillies going for the body. Jansen gets a good shot in and gets his right free. Still going. Gillies with a huge right, he's going over the head. Jansen get's a good left. Gillies going left now and Jansen goes down.

Now THAT was a fight. That was a good 2 minute fights.

Guys now congratulating each other on the fight.

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Tousignant vs Zajac

Tousignant down early, but he gets back up. Lost his helmet. Zajac definitely getting the better of Tousignant for this one. Tousignant down again, but gets back up and the refs come in to break them up.

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Trying to figure out the lines here but with 2 PP and now the 2 fights, I'm not fully sure whose actually on a line with each other and whose filling in.

D Pairings are:

Ramage-Sieloff
Culkin-Potter
Wotherspoon-Yonkman

I think these are the Forward lines:

Agostino-Arnold-Poirier
Hanowski-Reinhart-Elson
Hathaway-Tousignant-Setoguchi
Gillies-Vause-Reid

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Ortio having to make far too many saves during the 1st period. Albany getting a bunch of shots on net and getting set up in the Flames zone.

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Flames going to the PK but it's a delayed call. Devils pull the goalie and play goes on for a good 90 seconds before Flames get control.

Sieloff is the one in the box.

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FLAMES GOAL!

MAX POWER!

Beauty goal. Beauty!

1-0 Flames


About damn time!

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Reinhart breaks a 9 game goal-less drought. It was a damn near impossible goal too. Goalie was down and covering the net and he just roofs it in the tiny spot still open.

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End of 1st Period

1-0 Flames

Shots on Goal: 10-8 Devils

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Huska Interview:

Late Period Goals - Bad goal to give up last night at the wrong time. That was the covering on a bad night for them. The forwards played poorly. Need to play a smart, hard brand of hockey. Keep shifts short to stay fresh.

Van Brabant - Little strange they let him play last night and then suspend him today. Bryce has been playing well and a bigger body moving feet. He can shoot puck with accuracy and he will be missed in the game today.

Flukey Goals - Flames didn't play the proper way to get the bounces. The process wasn't played correctly. Defence played solid, forwards did not play as expected. Fowards weren't willing to get nose dirty in the play, didn't get bounces.

Shots from Point - Defence need to do a better job of having confidence to get shots through. They need to get better with a quick release from the point. They are too careful about getting shots blocked and trying to place it. They need just to let shots go.

Seiloff - Patrick had been out for a few and came back and played well. He did a good job of joining into the rush. Doesn't have to be super offensive skill but he showed smarts knowing when to get up with them and he was rewarded with a goal.

Small Crowd in Albany - Doesn't mind the small crowd. Wants to be competitive if it's 1000 people or 5000 people.