[GDT] Flames vs Amerks - Saturday Jan 3 @ 5:00pm (MST)

[Drury18]

Adirondack Flames (20-14-1-1) vs Rochester Americans (Buffalo Sabres) (14-19-1-0)

#46 - Bryce Van Brabant

Van Brabant is an undrafted Left Wing from Morinville, AB who signed as a free agent with the Calgary Flames in 2014 playing 6 games in the NHL before starting the 2014-15 with the Adirondack Flames. Before joining the Flames organization, Van Brabant attended Quinnipiac University where he played for 3 years and reached the final of the 2013 Frozen Four Tournament. His play in the Frozen Four tournament along with his greatly improved play during the 2013-14 season attracted the attention of a number of NHL teams including the Flames, Oilers, Blackhawks and Islanders. He chose to forego his final season in the NCAA after he was offered several NHL contracts at the end of his 2013-14 season. On April 1, 2014, Van Brabant became the first Quinnipiac alumni to ever play a game in the NHL.


Game Notes:

• This is the 7th of 12 meetings between the two teams. They will meet 4 times in January including the final 3 games of the month.
• The season series is tied 3-3 with the Amerks outscoring the Flames 20-17
• The Flames have won 2 of their last 4 games; The Amerks have won 3 of their last 4
• Flames players looking to snap pointless streaks: Gillies (11 games), Agostino (8 games), Hanowski (5 games), Wolf (5 games) and Elson (5 games)
• Adirondack leads all North Division teams in Goals For with 97 in 36 games

Roster Notes:

• Markus Granlund (F) and Corey Potter (D) are up with the Calgary Flames .
• The Flames now have 16 forwards, 8 defencemen and 2 goalies on the roster
  

Standings:

• Adirondack sits in 8th (out of 30 teams) with 42 points and 2nd in the North Division 7 points behind Utica.
• Overall PP is 7th in the AHL at 19.1% (30/157). Home PP is 4th at 21.0%; Road PP is 17th at 17.1%
• Overall PK is 3rd in the AHL at 87.1 % (128/147). Home PK is 11th at 85.1%; Road PK is 3rd at 88.8%
• Ortio (G) is 2nd in the AHL in wins (16), 3rd in the AHL for minutes played (1510:58), 2nd for saves (685) and 2nd for shutouts (3).
• Poirier (F) is 11th in Rookie Points with 10G, 9A and 19 PTS, tied for 3rd for Rookie Goals (10) and 3rd in Rookie Shooting % with 18.2%.
• Arnold (F) is 13th in Rookie Points with 9G, 10G and 19 PTS and tied for 4th for Rookie Goals (9)
• Culkin (D) is tied for 1st in Rookie PP Assists (9), 4th in Rookie PP Points and tied for 2nd in overall Defencemen PP Assists

Point Streaks and Notables:

• Acolaste - 2A in 5GP - Healthy Scratch
• Arnold - 4G, 3A in 9GP
• Baertschi - 2G, 10A in 14GP
• Culkin - 6A in 11GP
• Cundari - 2G, 9A in 17GP
• Knight - 3G in 6GP
• Poirier - 5G, 2A in 10GP
• Granlund - 3G in 4GP - Recalled by Flames
• Potter - 3A in 5GP - Recalled by Flames

Injuries:

• Devin Setoguchi (Undisclosed) - Unknown. Has not practiced since Dec 10.
• Patrick Sieloff (Undisclosed) - Unknown. Not attending practice.

Preview from the Adirondack Flames : http://www.adirondackflames.com/news/?article_id=157

Preview from the Rochester Americans: http://amerks.com/preview.asp?gameID=20150103

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[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

The Flames have played well lately against the Amerks this, but I expect it to be a slow game. There's no way our guys aren't exhausted at this point.

[Flame19,289]

Their guys too.
The Amerks played at home in Rochester last night.

Agostino should be fresh if he draws in... He has been a healthy scratch for the last two.

[Drury18]

Thiessen with the start tonight.

Ferland looks to be out with the flu. Sieloff and Setoguchi are injured.

Tousi is a healthy scratch with Gillies and Yonkman

[Drury18]

Reported Flames Lines:

Baertschi-Arnold-Poirier
Wolf-Elson-Van Brabant
Reinhart-Knight-Hanowski
Agostino-Vause-Hathaway

Cundari-Culkin
Stevenson-Acolatse
Wotherspoon-Ramage

[Drury18]

In net for Rochester is Pat Nagle who signed a PTO with the Amerks on Jan 1.

He has 2 games of AHL experience with Syracuse in 2012-13. He's mostly an ECHL goalie with from what I can see, about a career 3.00 GAA in the ECHL.

[Drury18]

Starters:

Thiessen
Wotherspoon-Ramage
Wolf-Elson-Van Brabant

Starters make sense as our games with Rochester usually end in a fight or two. It's been very physical games.

[Drury18]

Game is on!

[Drury18]

Turner Elson wearing an A tonight along with Knight and Cundari.

[Caged Great]

Ferland and Tousignant are out.

[Drury18]

Yep, Ferland is sick. Tousi is being sat for offensive problems.

[Caged Great]

Sven had a good chance

[Drury18]

Neither team really taking control of the puck. Trading shots back and forth.

[Drury18]

Former Flames Brodie Reid in the lineup tonight for Rochester. He's been playing extremely well for the Amerks.

[Drury18]

Too much fancy stuff again. Hanowski had a great chance to bring it into the Amerks zone but made an extra move and Reinhart put them offside.

Hate to say it, but they need to start being more basic.

[Drury18]

Stevenson going off for cross-checking.

To the PK

[Caged Great]

The Flames have been kind of bad to start the game, not that the Merks have been good either.

[Flame19,289]

At home tonight watching the Union - Boston University game.
Thanks, Drury18, for the updates.

[Drury18]

Flames doing a good job of not letting the Amerks get set up.

Flames push the puck out of their zone for a shorthanded chance but end up just dumping it.

[Caged Great]

I wish the Flames had a prospect like Ruhwedel. Plays a lot lke Russell, but is a righty shot