Heroic Shrimp
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Coco-puffs said:
He assisted on the 7th goal of the game (not the Marlies' 7th and final goal), in the dying seconds of the second period, so perhaps that's the source of confusion.
Marlies Talk 14/15 | aka What's Nylander up to?
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He assisted on the 7th goal of the game (not the Marlies' 7th and final goal), in the dying seconds of the second period, so perhaps that's the source of confusion.
pmrules said:
Knodel's been in the ECHL for most of the season and Valiev only has a pair of professional games under his belt. So if Percy isn't the one going in then it's definitely injury-related.
pmrules said:
kylethereporter.com link
Nilsson sat Game 1 but was inserted for Game 2 after Stuart Percy was scratched. Dineen wouldn?t give details for why, but it?s likely Percy is affected by some sort of injury. Leading up to Game 1, Percy wasn?t taking part in full team drills and was skating on his own prior to practice, trying to work something out.
?Injuries in the playoffs are something we keep to ourselves,? said Dineen. ?We feel Tom Nilsson was an excellent option to put in there.?
Game stats link for those who can't watch
http://theahl.com/stats/game-summary.php?game_id=1014630
GhostofPotvin29
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Can't wait for years and years of this from Sun reporters.
http://twitter.com/sunhornby/status/593563321619603456
http://twitter.com/sunhornby/status/593563321619603456
Stickytape
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Marlies look a bit sloppy. Huge save by Gibson on a penalty shot, but the Marlies were on the PP.
Potvin29 said:
On the goal, Miele skated out from the corner and roofed it with a perfect shot. I guess I need to see the replay but from memory, I didn't see that as all on Nylander. Maybe he lost the race/battle for that puck (I'm not sure) but Miele had to have beaten one of the Leafs D on the ice: MacWilliam or Brennan to come out from the corner and get right in front of Gibson in the crease almost to roof it. And Gibson arguably dropped and moved a little soon on the goal as well.
So my reaction to the goal was not "OMG Nylander!!!" Maybe these was some other stuff that went on. I had the sound muted for some of it.
Marlies down 2-1 near the end of the 2nd
Stickytape
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An unlucky bounce and it's 3-1 Grand Rapids with half a period left.
Edit: 4-1 :-\
Edit: 4-1 :-\
Stickytape said:
It's too bad they couldn't finish this series off tonight. The Griffins will get a few reinforcements from Detroit for the next game, including goalie Petr Mrazek.
GhostofPotvin29
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CarltonTheBear said:
And Tomas Jurco is eligible too apparently.
Heroic Shrimp
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Potvin29 said:
I strongly recommend they take the approach of not messing around with a winning Grand Rapids lineup.
Potvin29 said:
https://twitter.com/KyleTheReporter/status/593603052516548608
https://twitter.com/KyleTheReporter/status/593603457782800385
Jurco and Ferraro were top six AHL forwards for the Griffins Calder Cup Championship in 2013 and have played well since.
Marchenko was +22 and .39ppg for the Griffins this season - one of the Griffins better defenders (if that isn't obvious from his promotion to the Wings).
Of course, Mrazek was the Griffins 2013 Calder Cup winning goalie and had won the NHL stating job over Howard & Gustavsson. Mrazak has split his two games against the Marlies in the regular season in 2013 and 2014 (so basically meaningless) but did win his series over the Marlies 4-2 in 2013.
So the Wings loss was the Griffins gain: they add a decent/hot NHL starting goalie, a top 4 Griffins dman and two top six Griffins forwards who have won an AHL Championship with them recently.
Not good news for the Marlies. They may have missed a big opportunity last night to put this team away when they had the chance. That's a pretty massive talent upgrade.
Highlander
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they seemed to mail this game in. I don't agree in messing with a winning line up, Troy Bodie or not. All we need is Loov
Potvin29 said:
Jurco hasn't played a single game in the AHL this season. That's kinda lame. Oh well. I wonder how a guy like him would feel about playing in the AHL playoffs. Goes from playing in the NHL all season long and competing in a hard-fought playoff series that ended in 7 games to joining a lesser team/league he hasn't been affiliated with for about a year.
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Defenceman Alexey Marchenko has been the only player reassigned to the Griffins so far. Maybe the Wings have decided to give the players who weren't really a part of the Griffins team during the regular season the time off?
Defenceman Alexey Marchenko has been the only player reassigned to the Griffins so far. Maybe the Wings have decided to give the players who weren't really a part of the Griffins team during the regular season the time off?
GhostofPotvin29
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Yeah maybe like you say a guy like Jurco they won't even bother sending down.
CarltonTheBear said:
https://twitter.com/Bill_Roose/status/593621162946633728
https://twitter.com/AnsarKhanMLive/status/593777482945458176
http://boxscorenews.com/blown-opportunities-cost-the-detroit-red-wings-series-p121151-68.htm
WINGS NOTES: Wings general manager Ken Holland said that Marchenko is the only player who will return to Grand Rapids to play with the Griffins in the American Hockey League playoffs. The Griffins trail the Toronto Marlies 2-1 in their best-of-five first-round series. Game 4 is Saturday at Van Andel Arena. Mrazek and Tomas Jurco are eligible to go down, however, Mrazek will shut it down for the summer while Jurco is likely head to the World Championships in the Czech Republic. ? Ferraro will not return to GR. He would have to clear waivers and the Red Wings are not willing to expose him.
Marlies might catch a break - particularly if Mrazek doesn't play for the Griffins ...
Potvin29 said:
I just read that Ferraro would have to clear waivers to be sent back down, so that's not happening. Jurco would probably be a lock to join Slovakia at the Worlds if he wanted to go. The Czech's have 3 goalies already so Mrazek won't be going, but he only played 13 games in the AHL this season and the Wings might just feel that it's better to let the goalies who got that team into the playoffs play.