[GDT] Flames vs Wild - Wednesday Feb 4 @ 5:00pm (MST)

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Adirondack Flames (24-16-3-1) vs Iowa Wild (Minnesota Wild) (15-29-1-1)

Game Notes:

• This is the 2nd of two meetings between the teams. They met previously in December where the Flames won 2-1.
• The Flames won 2 of their last 5 games; The Wild have lost 6 straight
• Flames players looking to snap pointless streaks: Gillies (12 games), Cundari (10 games), Seiloff (8 games), Stevenson (7 games) and Agostino (5 games)

Roster Notes:

• DEL - Sven Baertschi (F), David Wolf (F), Markus Granlund (F) and Corey Potter (D) - Called up to NHL Flames
• ADD - Tyler Wotherspoon (D) - Returned to Adirondack
• The Flames now have 14 forwards (12 healthy), 8 defencemen (8 healthy) and 3 goalies on the roster
• Scratches for Tonight: Setoguchi (Injured), Arnold (Injured), Yonkman (Healthy) and Cundari (Healthy)
• Starting Goalie: Ortio is expected to start

Standings:

• Adirondack sits in 14th (out of 30 teams) with 52 points and 2nd in the North Division 4 points behind Utica.
• Overall PP is 8th in the AHL at 18.5 % (35/189). Home PP is 10th at 18.9%; Road PP is 16th at 18.1%
• Overall PK is 11th in the AHL at 84.9 % (158/186). Home PK is 17th at 83.2%; Road PK is 7th at 86.8%
• Poirier (F) is 6th in Rookie Points with 12G, 15A and 27 PTS
• Culkin (D) is tied for 3rd in Rookie PP Assists (10) and tied for 3rd in overall Defencemen PP Assists (10)
• Ortio (G) is 2nd for Wins (19) and 5th for Saves (776)

Point Streaks and Notables:

• Acolaste - 2G, 2A in 4GP
• Arnold - 4G, 5A in 12GP - Injured
• Baertschi - 5G, 12A in 22GP - Recalled to Calgary
• Culkin - 10A in 19GP
• Elson - 2G, 1A in 3GP
• Granlund - 4G, 4A in 7GP - Recalled to Calgary
• Hanowski - 1G, 3A in 6GP
• Poirier - 7G, 8A in 17GP
• Potter - 5A in 8GP
• Reinhart - 1G, 2A in 3GP
• Shore - 2A in 2GP
• Wolf - 7G, 2A in 6 GP - Recalled to Calgary

Injuries:

• Devin Setoguchi (Sports Hernia Surgery) - Out for Season
• Bill Arnold (Separated Shoulder) - Out 1-2 Months

Preview from the Adirondack Flames : http://adirondackflames.com/news/?article_id=187

Preview from the Iowa Wild : http://www.iowawild.com/fancentral/r...article_id=636

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Originally Posted by Drury18

[*] Acolaste - 2G, 2A in 4GP

Just an abberation, or is he a solid puck mover? How's he defensively?

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Yea, it's a one off. He's just having a bit of a hot streak. Lots of shots on goal and some are going in. Prior to that streak, he didn't have a shot on goal for a couple games or just one shot.

He's okay defensively. He's not great, not horrible. Sort of a guy whose there and fills a spot. I can't see him being retained past this year because we have lots of guys who can fill that same role.

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Diana C. Nearhos @dianacnearhos
Carr comes out instead of Thiessen. I wonder if Brad's wife went into labor? She was due the end of January.

Diana C. Nearhos @dianacnearhos
Yonkman, Cundari and now Thiessen are healthy scratches. Setoguchi, Arnold are injured.

[Drury18]

There's a full blown baby epidemic in the Flames organization!

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Reported Lines:

Hanowski-Shore-Van Brabant
Ferland-Elson-Hathaway
Agostino-Reinhart-Poirier
Gillies-Tousignant-McGrattan

Wotherspoon-Culkin
Sieloff-Ramage
Stevenson-Acolatse

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Gillies playing in his first game since January 10th.

This will be Sieloff's second game since December 31st.

[Drury18]

Sounds like the Wild team is pretty depleted. They have lost alot of players due to injury and callups to the Minnesota Wild.

They didn't have much to work with to start, but explains the recent 6 game losing streak.

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Ortio getting his 30th start tonight. This is the Flames 45th game of the year. Ortio has more then carried the workload here.

Starters:

Ortio
Culkin-Wotherspoon
Hanowski-Shore-Van Brabant

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Game On!

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Iowa gets the first shot 11 seconds into the game. Easy save for Ortio.

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Poirier with a heavy hit on Falk.

He might have a physical side we are only just starting to see here.

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McGrattan with a huge hit on Gudbranson.

Sieloff with a solid hit on another player.

Flames are throwing the body around nicely early on. All very clean, but very hard hits.

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With Yonkman and Cundari out and Potter called up, we have a new crop of players wearing an "A". Ferland, Hanowski and Elson with the A on the jersey tonight.

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Reinhart and Poirer on a 2 on 1 breakaway but Reinhart can't get the pass over to Poirier cleanly.

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Hmm, we apparently have 4 goalies tonight according to AHL.com

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Sieloff with another hit that takes out a Wild player and lets the Flames breakout of their own zone.

I know its early, but Sieloff is having a nice defensive game so far. Hopefully he keeps this up.

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Stevenson just exploded Gabriel. Massive hit.

Flames are just knocking the Wild over like bowling pins.

McGrattan joins in again on the hitting party with another on Gabriel and it looks like he will get an interference call on the play.

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Shore and Hathaway with a shorthanded chance but cannot get the play to connect.

Reinhart gets the puck up to Elson and he has a great chance, but Kemper with a glove save.

Elson breaks in with another massive shot and a huge glove save. Actually Elson to Ramage. There were 3 Flames on the Iowa goalie.

...the Wild are on a PP.

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Wild Goal

Gelinas sneaks in with a quick shot and it slips past Ortio. Powerplay goal.

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