All alone. Go figure.
Hershey looked dead-tired. Can’t blame them, especially when you’re trying to deal with a team whose whole thing is predicated on skating and pressure. After the penalties turned into a 3-1 lead, hey, get out alive.
And that left the kids in first going into the cross-country trip.
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Capuano said they considered matching up against that big line, but figured if they’re going to try to develop players for the NHL, might as well let them all play against the best.
“As long as you know who you’re out against, if you manage the puck, if you manage the clock, you should be OK,” Capuano said.
They did fine for the most part, although Capuano said that if things had gone differently, an on-the-fly matchup was a possibility.
Kurtis McLean is 3-6-9 in a six-game scoring streak.
Mitch Fritz and Pascal Morency aren’t supposed to make the trip, instead staying behind and skating with assistant Matt Bertani.
Actual Hershey D-pairs were Alzner-Lepisto, Patrick McNeill-Helmer, and Amadio-Collins, though Grant McNeill played some on D (mostly in Lepisto’s spot) in the third. Colliton’s ‘A’ was a phantom on the oranges, by the way.
Jay Leach gets the call.
Lots of interesting stuff in Mike Sharp‘s Saturday postmortem, including that Denis Hamel isn’t expected to be ready for the Maritimes.
Local boy Peter Zingoni has a broken wrist.
And with that, the boys are off to Atlantic Canada. Got the weekly on Tuesday, and then we’ll see how to cover a team from afar for a week and a half. This’ll feel mighty weird.