AHL Playoffs: Heat (W5) vs. Grand Rapids Griffins (W4)

[kehatch]

Any chance of us seeing a line of Baertschi-Granlund-Poirier? Throw Reinhart with Olson and Knight to give us a strong shut down line.

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[DOOM]

Originally Posted by kehatch

Any chance of us seeing a line of Baertschi-Granlund-Poirier? Throw Reinhart with Olson and Knight to give us a strong shut down line.

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Personally, id rather keep Granlund/Reinhart together as they seem to have good chemistry. Reinhart also did lead the Heat in points, so id rather keep in an offensive role as opposed to a shutdown role.

[Drury18]

I think it'll be Reinhart/Granlund/Poirier as they played terrific the last game. Reinhart is not a "shut down" guy, he is our offensive powerhouse most nights.

Baertschi has done very well with Knight. Huge question mark who ends up on the other wing though. Maybe Locke, maybe Klimchuk, maybe Miller.

[Street Pharmacist]

Baertschi has been passed on the depth chart, but the positive is that it's not because he's gotten worse. It's just that there's been so many good surprises

[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

That picture is awesome nik-! Love that!

Hopefully we'll be using it for years to come.

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by Pierre "Monster" McGuire

Under normal circumstances, yes. But most of their best players are with Detroit.

While McCollum is a really good goalie, he's no Petr Mrazek. He's actually human. The Heat are much much deeper than the Griffins are right now.

PMM...considering the Heat dont start until Friday Im assuming that unless Detroit wins their series, which is doubtful, they may get some guys back before the series is done. Detroit could get swept by the Bruins now and be out by Saturday. Latest they would be out is if Wings series went 7 games taking them to next Wednesday. I think we need to sweep GR or take at least 2 of first 3.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Cheese

PMM...considering the Heat dont start until Friday Im assuming that unless Detroit wins their series, which is doubtful, they may get some guys back before the series is done. Detroit could get swept by the Bruins now and be out by Saturday. Latest they would be out is if Wings series went 7 games taking them to next Wednesday. I think we need to sweep GR or take at least 2 of first 3.

Detroit-Boston is 1-1...

[bubbsy]

man this sounds like fun:

Abbotsford Heat ‏@abbotsfordheat 2m Game 1 of the playoffs vs @griffinshockey goes Apr.25 at 7PM at the @AbbyCentre. This game will be a $3 Beer, $2 Hot Dog and $1 Soda night!

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Detroit-Boston is 1-1...

yes true. I said if Boston sweeps the rest it could be done on Saturday...or if it goes 7 next Wednesday.

[PeteMoss]

Looks like they did the paper transactions with Jurco, Sheahan, Glendening so those guys could go back down.

[Flamesinsix]

Will the game be streamed online?

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[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

Looks like they did the paper transactions with Jurco, Sheahan, Glendening so those guys could go back down.

Yeah, that's basically their first line haha. We'll have to fight fire with fire.

[Drury18]

Originally Posted by Flamesinsix

Will the game be streamed online?

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It should be on AHL Live (which you will need to purchase a subscription to), however the webpage is still not showing any playoff matchups of playoff subscriptions yet. They seem to be a little behind.

[Flamesinsix]

Cool thanks

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[Drury18]

So I did a little digging through information from the last two playoff runs and came up with a list of the Franchise Leaders in playoff scoring. Our leading scorer in the playoffs is Brett Sutter with 11 points. I think that's another record we might see fall during this playoff run.

Spoiler due to chart size:

Spoiler!

Also, in our previous playoff runs, we have never been past the second round:


2009-10 AHL Playoffs

Round 1:

Abbotsford - 4
Rochester - 3

Round 2:

Hamilton - 4
Abbotsford - 2

2011-12 Playoffs:

Round 1:

Abbotsford - 3
Milwaukee - 0

Round 2:

Toronto -4
Abbotsford - 1

Overall Record: 10-11

[getbak]

Game face ready...

Joni Ortio ‏@JoniOrtio

All shaved up and ready for the playoffs. Hopefully don't have to shave again in a while. #hotshave… http://instagram.com/p/nEljhYp98s/

[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

Hugh Jessiman. That actually happened. Totally forgot about him.

[Cheerio]

More like Grand Crapids Griffins!

[Trailer Fire]

I'm not afraid to say it. Joni is a good looking fellow. He melted my wife's panties pretty quickly. But totally not mine. Definitely not mine....

[bubbsy]

... akward.