[GDT] Heat vs Marlies - March 30th @ 2:00pm MST - On Sportsnet360

[Drury18]

Abbotsford Heat (37-24-5-2) vs Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs) (40-20-2-4)

Sunday March 30th @ 2pm MST
**GAME IS ON SPORTSNET 360**

Notes:

• This is the final game of a 4 game series
• Heat lead season series 2-1
• Heat lead the scoring 12-9 in the first 3 games

Standings:

• 2nd in the West Division (14 pts behind the Stars, 8 pts ahead of the Checkers)
• 5th in the Western Conference (14 pts behind the Stars, 3pts behind 4th place Wolves)
• Heat's "magic number" to clinch a playoff spot is 8 (8 points needed in the last 12 games)
• A Heat loss would clinch the West Division title for the Texas Stars
• 5th in the AHL on the PP
• 26th in the AHL on the PK

Roster Notes

• Brett Kulak will meet the team in Abbotsford and potentially play in next weekend's series
• Morgan Klimchuk will also meet the team in Abbotsford and potentially play in next weekend's series
• On Flames Roster – Hanowski, Granlund , Wotherspoon , MacDonald

Point Streaks and Notables:

• Reinhart - 4g, 7a in 10 games
• Locke - 2g, 16a in 21 games
• Smith - 1g, 7a in 7 games
• Street - 4g, 4a in 6 games
• Baertschi - 5g, 5a in 9 games
• Davies - 2g in 2 games
• Granlund - 7g, 9a in last 12 games (recalled)

Injuries:

• Michael Ferland (Knee) – Out for Season
• Patrick Sieloff (Infection) – Unknown
• Adrian Foster (Lower Body) – Week to Week
• Trevor Gillies (Upper Body) – Day to Day
• Blair Jones (Unknown) – Out (Did not make trip)

Preview from Abbotsford Heat Website: http://www.abbotsfordheat.com/news/?article_id=825

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[Skaloper]

Should be a good game this afternoon. I'll probably only get to watch the first period because the Flames didn't play at 3.

[Drury18]

Ortio to get his 3rd start in 3 days. Part man, part machine:

Brandon Astle ‏@brandon_astle 3m
J.Ortio will get his third straight start this weekend. 1st time in his career that he will play 3 games in 3 days. Now leads AHL in save %!

[Miniac]

Originally Posted by Skaloper

Should be a good game this afternoon. I'll probably only get to watch the first period because the Flames didn't play at 3.

I'll be doing the same.

[Drury18]

Roster Notes for Tonight:

Brandon Astle ‏@brandon_astle 13m
It's Ortio vs. MacIntyre. Marlies netminder is 2nd in the league in wins. Lamb draws in for Arsene. Ostrow for Hathaway.

[Drury18]

Interview with Jordan Singlet (goaltending coach):

- Last night's win was huge. Confidence boost to win two in a row, finally beat Utica, putting so many pucks in the net.

- Ortio's biggest strength is his confidence in the net. Let's the team get a lead and team is confident that he will hold it.

- When he returned from Calgary, Ortio commented that the Flames game was almost easier to play then the Heat. Can make a few more mistakes at that level. Kid has ice cold veins, nothing bothers him, nothing shakes him.

- Guys are excited to get home after this game so they will leave it all on the ice tonight. Have a week off after this so they want to play this and get their break.

[Drury18]

Scratches: Kulak, Jones, Arsene, Sieloff, Ferland, Foster, Hathaway, Gillies, Lyon

Starters:

Ortio
Breen-LaFranchise
Reinhart-Street-Jooris

Reinhart and Ashton having a little conversation at the blue line. Interesting.

[Drury18]

And here we go!

[getbak]

Nice Sven, getting physical. He's already done more today than he did last Sunday.

[Drury18]

Lines:

Reinhart-Street-Jooris
Baertschi-Knight-Bancks
MacPherson-Locke-Olson
Ostrow-Kremyr-Miller

Breen-LaFranchise
SOB-Smith
Davies-Lamb

[Drury18]

Heat getting the first PP as Ashton goes off for hooking

[getbak]

Oh, Street...So close. Nice hustle there.

[Drury18]

Wow, desperation move by MacIntyre there. That should have been one for Street.

[Drury18]

Broll and Smith called for coincidental minors.

[Drury18]

Am I the only one noticing that most of the Marlies are targeting Reinhart? I don't think they are happy about that hit last week still.

[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

C'mon Heat. They're leaving Ortio out to dry.

[Drury18]

Heat were leading shots 6-2. It's now 9-7 Marlies.

[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

Originally Posted by Drury18

Am I the only one noticing that most of the Marlies are targeting Reinhart? I don't think they are happy about that hit last week still.

If they just looked at the video they could see it was hardly a hit from behind. Probably one of the lamest misconducts I've seen.

[RFP]

Originally Posted by Pierre "Monster" McGuire

If they just looked at the video they could see it was hardly a hit from behind. Probably one of the lamest misconducts I've seen.

unfortunate for us you're not calling the game

[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

Huge toe save from Ortio. Makes it look easy though.