2013/14 General Heat Discussion Thread

[Drury18]

Highlights from last nights game (Note: For those who prefer not to see such things, Wotherspoon's hit is not part of the package)

http://ahl.neulion.com/ahl/video/okl...ford-heat/8780

[Drury18]

The Heat released some interesting numbers from their 9 game winning streak:

39-25 The Heat outscored their opponents
14-5 The Heat outscored their opponents in the third period
5 Games were won in the third period
7 Games were one goal victories
12/39 The Heat success on the power play (31%)
2 Hat-tricks were recorded (Blair Jones & Ben Street)
7-0 Joni Ortio’s record in between the pipes
0 Losses on home ice (4 games)
5 Straight wins on the road

[Drury18]

GAMEDAY!

Abbotsford Heat (13-5-0-1) vs Milwaukee Admirals (Nashville Predators) (8-3-2-1)
6:00pm MST Start

Notes:
The Abbotsford Heat have split the previous two meetings with the Admirals this year winning 3-2 and losing 2-1 in a shootout



Preview from Abbotsford Heat Website: http://abbotsfordheat.com/news/?article_id=646

Preview from the Milwaukee Admirals: None Available

Listen Live (6:00pm MST): http://www.teamradio.ca/abbotsford-heat/

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AHLHeatInGame

[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

The Heat always seem to have so much trouble against Milwaukee. Hope they can win tonight.

The Heat are 1-7 in Milwaukee in the last 5 years. Yikes.

[Freeway]

Some pre-game reading: Over at THW, I took a look at who I think is in line for recalls.

http://thehockeywriters.com/abbotsfo...ressive-start/

[Drury18]

Begin, Elson, MacKenzie, McKelvie, Sieloff, Wotherspoon are all out.

Starters:

Ortio
Ramage-Billins
Hanowski-Knight-Olson

[Drury18]

Admirals Goal

1-0 Admirals

[Drury18]

Admirals Goal

2-0 Admirals

Shots 12-9 Heat

[Drury18]

HEAT GOAL!

Blair Jones from Billins

2-1 Admirals

Edit: Reinhart with an assist as well

[Drury18]

Admirals Goal

3-1 Admirals

[flames_fan13]

Granlund gets the Heat within 1

[Vulcan]

I like Nemisz

[Street Pharmacist]

Game over?

[J epworth]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Game over?

Nemo tied it up, last I heard it was heading to overtime.

[getbak]

Heat win 4-3 in OT!

[Roof-Daddy]

Heat goals:

1. Jones from Billins, Reinhart
2. Granlund from Ferland
3. Nemisz from Knight
4. Street from Billins, Jones (OT Winner)

Ortio with 37 saves on 40 shots and is now 8-0-0 in the AHL this season. Uh yeah.....that's 8-0-0.

Nice 3rd period comeback, FU Admirals.

[Da_Chief]

Good night, Points from Reinhart, Granlund, Ferland, Knight, Nemisz and Ortio gets the win. Only one that didn't get a point that I would like to see more from is Hanowski.

[Roof-Daddy]

9 points in 6 games for Ferland, after starting the year 0 for 11.

[DOOM]

Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy

9 points in 6 games for Ferland, after starting the year 0 for 11.

Was he pointless in his first 11 games? I thought it was only 7 or 8.

Im probably wrong, either way it awesome to see!

[thymebalm]

Originally Posted by Da_Chief

Good night, Points from Reinhart, Granlund, Ferland, Knight, Nemisz and Ortio gets the win. Only one that didn't get a point that I would like to see more from is Hanowski.

Well you are in luck... Roof-Daddy missed a couple of assists.

1. Jones (8) from Billins (7), Reinhart (9)
2. Granlund (7) from Ferland (6), Billins (8)
3. Nemisz (3) from Knight (11), Hanowski (7)
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4. Street (9) from Billins (9), Jones (12) (OT - PP - GWG)

Jones now has 20 points in 15gp (7th in AHL scoring)
Billins now has 15 points in 16gp (4th in AHL D scoring)
Knight now has 16 points in 20gp (3rd in AHL rookie scoring)
Hanowksi now has 13 points in 19gp (7th in AHL rookie scoring)
Granlund now has 11 points in 16gp (18th in AHL rookie scoring)