1993: The P-Bruins draw a 4-4 knot in their first-ever confrontation with the Albany River Rats at the Providence Civic Center.
1994: The P-Bruins surmount a hot-handed Portland team, 7-4, at the Cumberland County Civic Center.
1999: John Grahame returns to the Spoked-Ps for the first time since backstopping the Calder Cup clinching game as Byron Dafoe’s holdout in Boston comes to a close. Regrettably for Grahame, the heroic goaltender’s return is spoiled by a 5-3 loss to the Louisville Panthers, decided by a go-ahead goal via former P-Bruin Chris Winnes.
2000: Eric Nickulas singlehandedly sculpts a 2-0 lead, enough for the P-Bruins to subsist through an eventual 4-1 home win over Portland, sweeping a slate of three games in as many nights.
2006: Fueled by Ben Walter’s two-goal, four-point night, the P-Bruins win a 6-3 seesaw battle with Chris Bourque and the Hershey Bears at The Dunk. With the game tied, 3-3, entering the third period, goaltender Brian Finley stops each of Hershey’s final 13 shots while Walter and Jonathan Sigalet each record two points as part of a decisive three-goal outburst.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Post-game Puckbag: Falcons 7, P-Bruins 2
Swift summation
The Springfield Falcons biffed the Providence Bruins into last month, overcooking prized goaltender Anton Khudobin for five goals-against en route to a 7-2 decision before an audience of 7,310 at the Dunkin Donuts Center.
Khudobin left at the 66-second mark of the third period with his worst single-night transcript since a 7-1 submission to Manchester five weeks prior, stopping only 23 shots out of 28 and combining a 7.30 goals-against average with a .821 save percentage.
Backup Michael Hutchinson repelled six out of eight shots-faced.
The Falcons’ power play lunged out to a 2-for-2 start within the opening frame, beginning at 4:53, when winger Nick Drazenovic lassoed and raked home a fugitive rebound from the slot.
Former P-Bruins playmaker Martin St. Pierre had the primary assist both times as Springfield raised its upper hand to 3-0 on two straight, sparsely distributed stabs at Khudobin. First, NHL veteran and recent Falcons’ signee Brett Lebda converted St. Pierre’s feed to polish off a fleeting odd-man rush with 13:28 gone.
Two minutes and 18 seconds later, with Providence’s own old guard representative, Chris Clark, caged for cross-checking, St. Pierre set up Cam Atkinson for their team’s second 5-on-4 conversion.
St. Pierre rounded out a playmaker hat trick and helped elevate the Falcons’ lead to 4-0 when he set up Alexandre Giroux for a third power-play tally at 15:12 of the second period.
The P-Bruins, who thrust 21 biscuits at Springfield stopper Manny Legace in the middle frame, finally retorted 72 seconds after Giroux’s goal. Zach Hamill strolled the puck onto Falcons’ property and dished things over to Lane MacDermid, who in turn set up Carter Camper for a top-shelf tally.
Only 20 seconds after the Falcons finished killing a carry-over penalty, Atkinson buried his second goal of the night on a centering feed by Andrew Joudrey. That was enough to cloud Atkinson’s guilt when he later sat in the box for delay of game and watched Jamie Tardif insert a Providence power-play strike with 10:15 to spare.
Ditto Springfield’s fourth and final man-up strike via Nick Holden with 84 seconds left and Aaron Bogosian’s goal that finalized the 7-2 upshot.
P-Bruins pluses
Through the home team’s second-period icebreaker, Camper and Hamill each lengthened their respective point-getting streaks to three games. MacDermid, meanwhile, tallied his first point of the month after a six-game drought that spanned the full length of two three-game weekends.
Camper, Hamill and MacDermid would be the lone Providence skaters with a positive rating on the night.
Bruins blights
The leaned-on line of Max Sauve, Josh Hennessy and Tardif spent substantial amounts of even-strength and power-play time swarming the Springfield zone during that rubber blizzard that was the middle frame. Yet for all of that, each constituent had only gotten around to registering one SOG apiece by the 40-minute mark.
The longer it goes on, the worse it looks on Jamie Arniel’s resume. Last year’s team-leading scorer had five shots on goal, the most since Oct. 23 against Albany, yet his scoring drought has lived on to the age of 11 games.
Craig Cunningham went the first 40-plus minutes without a shot on net and finished the night with a minus-2 rating, putting himself in company with Tyler Randell in that regard.
Falcons notes
Giroux, wearing his seventh AHL uniform in 11 professional seasons and now a veteran of 712 games in the league, claimed the secondary assist on his team’s second power play goal and had an intangible role in the first. In the fifth minute of action, his partial breakaway was foiled by Colby Cohen, whose action warranted a two-minute holding sentence, which only lasted 26 seconds before Drazenovic broke the ice.
Blueliner Cody Goloubef was credited with an assist on each of Springfield’s first two strikes. He then joined St. Pierre in the triple-helper club with the secondary assist on Holden’s brownie biscuit.
Dane Byers notched two assists of his own.
Legace amassed a season-high 34 saves in six AHL outings between Springfield and San Antonio.
Miscellany
Putting in his fifth appearance with the P-Bruins, Clark registered (five) shots on goal, the most he has had in a single game with Providence to date.
Stefan Chaput and Trent Whitfield continue to nurse their respective injuries. Forward Kyle MacKinnon and blueliner Ryan Button were the two healthy scratches for the Spoked-Ps.
The Springfield Falcons biffed the Providence Bruins into last month, overcooking prized goaltender Anton Khudobin for five goals-against en route to a 7-2 decision before an audience of 7,310 at the Dunkin Donuts Center.
Khudobin left at the 66-second mark of the third period with his worst single-night transcript since a 7-1 submission to Manchester five weeks prior, stopping only 23 shots out of 28 and combining a 7.30 goals-against average with a .821 save percentage.
Backup Michael Hutchinson repelled six out of eight shots-faced.
The Falcons’ power play lunged out to a 2-for-2 start within the opening frame, beginning at 4:53, when winger Nick Drazenovic lassoed and raked home a fugitive rebound from the slot.
Former P-Bruins playmaker Martin St. Pierre had the primary assist both times as Springfield raised its upper hand to 3-0 on two straight, sparsely distributed stabs at Khudobin. First, NHL veteran and recent Falcons’ signee Brett Lebda converted St. Pierre’s feed to polish off a fleeting odd-man rush with 13:28 gone.
Two minutes and 18 seconds later, with Providence’s own old guard representative, Chris Clark, caged for cross-checking, St. Pierre set up Cam Atkinson for their team’s second 5-on-4 conversion.
St. Pierre rounded out a playmaker hat trick and helped elevate the Falcons’ lead to 4-0 when he set up Alexandre Giroux for a third power-play tally at 15:12 of the second period.
The P-Bruins, who thrust 21 biscuits at Springfield stopper Manny Legace in the middle frame, finally retorted 72 seconds after Giroux’s goal. Zach Hamill strolled the puck onto Falcons’ property and dished things over to Lane MacDermid, who in turn set up Carter Camper for a top-shelf tally.
Only 20 seconds after the Falcons finished killing a carry-over penalty, Atkinson buried his second goal of the night on a centering feed by Andrew Joudrey. That was enough to cloud Atkinson’s guilt when he later sat in the box for delay of game and watched Jamie Tardif insert a Providence power-play strike with 10:15 to spare.
Ditto Springfield’s fourth and final man-up strike via Nick Holden with 84 seconds left and Aaron Bogosian’s goal that finalized the 7-2 upshot.
P-Bruins pluses
Through the home team’s second-period icebreaker, Camper and Hamill each lengthened their respective point-getting streaks to three games. MacDermid, meanwhile, tallied his first point of the month after a six-game drought that spanned the full length of two three-game weekends.
Camper, Hamill and MacDermid would be the lone Providence skaters with a positive rating on the night.
Bruins blights
The leaned-on line of Max Sauve, Josh Hennessy and Tardif spent substantial amounts of even-strength and power-play time swarming the Springfield zone during that rubber blizzard that was the middle frame. Yet for all of that, each constituent had only gotten around to registering one SOG apiece by the 40-minute mark.
The longer it goes on, the worse it looks on Jamie Arniel’s resume. Last year’s team-leading scorer had five shots on goal, the most since Oct. 23 against Albany, yet his scoring drought has lived on to the age of 11 games.
Craig Cunningham went the first 40-plus minutes without a shot on net and finished the night with a minus-2 rating, putting himself in company with Tyler Randell in that regard.
Falcons notes
Giroux, wearing his seventh AHL uniform in 11 professional seasons and now a veteran of 712 games in the league, claimed the secondary assist on his team’s second power play goal and had an intangible role in the first. In the fifth minute of action, his partial breakaway was foiled by Colby Cohen, whose action warranted a two-minute holding sentence, which only lasted 26 seconds before Drazenovic broke the ice.
Blueliner Cody Goloubef was credited with an assist on each of Springfield’s first two strikes. He then joined St. Pierre in the triple-helper club with the secondary assist on Holden’s brownie biscuit.
Dane Byers notched two assists of his own.
Legace amassed a season-high 34 saves in six AHL outings between Springfield and San Antonio.
Miscellany
Putting in his fifth appearance with the P-Bruins, Clark registered (five) shots on goal, the most he has had in a single game with Providence to date.
Stefan Chaput and Trent Whitfield continue to nurse their respective injuries. Forward Kyle MacKinnon and blueliner Ryan Button were the two healthy scratches for the Spoked-Ps.
Pre-game Puckbag: P-Bruins vs. Springfield Falcons
Opening draw
The Providence Bruins will host the Springfield Falcons for the first time as non-divisional rivals Friday night at the Dunkin Donuts Center.
Despite presently sitting in fifth place of the Northeast Division, the 8-7-0 Falcons reside in the AHL’s most gridlocked sector. A vast convergence of favorable circumstances on Friday could have them in a virtual knot for first place with the Albany Devils, holding the upper hand by virtue of a game in hand, no less.
Both teams are vying to build upon a recent 3-2 victory over the regional rival Worcester Sharks. The P-Bruins attained that upshot at the DCU Center on Sunday on the strength of Carter Camper’s go-ahead goal before the Falcons triumphed by the same score in overtime at the MassMutual Center on Wednesday.
Notable names
Martin St. Pierre, prolific playmaker and the P-Bruins top scorer from 2008-09, is plainly his usual self, sitting atop the Springfield scoring chart with a 5-11-16 transcript. He is in a five-way tie for ninth on the AHL’s point-getting leaderboard.
Only Nick Drazenovic has more assists on the team with 12, including one in each of his last five outings.
First-year pro and Boston College alumnus Cam Atkinson has inserted four of his five goals on the power play. Only Texas’ Matt Fraser has collected more man-advantage markers.
Veteran goaltender Manny Legace, who joined the Falcons as a rookie in their first year of existence and stayed for three-plus seasons, is back in Springfield on a professional tryout. He has started four games in total, including each of the last two and notched his first win of the season with Wednesday’s overtime decision over the Sharks.
Legace has faced a penalty shot in each of his last two outings, denying Bridgeport’s Tyler McNeely last Saturday and Worcester’s Mike Connolly on Wednesday. The later save occurred at 0:52 of overtime, exactly 90 seconds of playing time before Alexandre Giroux inserted the walkoff strike on a power play.
Upon joining Springfield on Oct. 20, Legace was reunited with another original Falcon in assistant coach Nolan Pratt. Both played a role in Springfield’s playoff victories over the P-Bruins in 1996 and 1997.
Miscellany
The Falcons, who are 3-0 in the bite-sized bonus round, are one of only four teams who have yet to be involved in a shootout this season.
Both Providence and Springfield have losing records (1-3-0 and 2-3-0, respectively) when outshooting their opponent, but are above .500 (7-5-1 and 6-4-0) when outshot.
The Providence Bruins will host the Springfield Falcons for the first time as non-divisional rivals Friday night at the Dunkin Donuts Center.
Despite presently sitting in fifth place of the Northeast Division, the 8-7-0 Falcons reside in the AHL’s most gridlocked sector. A vast convergence of favorable circumstances on Friday could have them in a virtual knot for first place with the Albany Devils, holding the upper hand by virtue of a game in hand, no less.
Both teams are vying to build upon a recent 3-2 victory over the regional rival Worcester Sharks. The P-Bruins attained that upshot at the DCU Center on Sunday on the strength of Carter Camper’s go-ahead goal before the Falcons triumphed by the same score in overtime at the MassMutual Center on Wednesday.
Notable names
Martin St. Pierre, prolific playmaker and the P-Bruins top scorer from 2008-09, is plainly his usual self, sitting atop the Springfield scoring chart with a 5-11-16 transcript. He is in a five-way tie for ninth on the AHL’s point-getting leaderboard.
Only Nick Drazenovic has more assists on the team with 12, including one in each of his last five outings.
First-year pro and Boston College alumnus Cam Atkinson has inserted four of his five goals on the power play. Only Texas’ Matt Fraser has collected more man-advantage markers.
Veteran goaltender Manny Legace, who joined the Falcons as a rookie in their first year of existence and stayed for three-plus seasons, is back in Springfield on a professional tryout. He has started four games in total, including each of the last two and notched his first win of the season with Wednesday’s overtime decision over the Sharks.
Legace has faced a penalty shot in each of his last two outings, denying Bridgeport’s Tyler McNeely last Saturday and Worcester’s Mike Connolly on Wednesday. The later save occurred at 0:52 of overtime, exactly 90 seconds of playing time before Alexandre Giroux inserted the walkoff strike on a power play.
Upon joining Springfield on Oct. 20, Legace was reunited with another original Falcon in assistant coach Nolan Pratt. Both played a role in Springfield’s playoff victories over the P-Bruins in 1996 and 1997.
Miscellany
The Falcons, who are 3-0 in the bite-sized bonus round, are one of only four teams who have yet to be involved in a shootout this season.
Both Providence and Springfield have losing records (1-3-0 and 2-3-0, respectively) when outshooting their opponent, but are above .500 (7-5-1 and 6-4-0) when outshot.
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