First Preseason Game, First Preseason Win
The Americans beat the Everett Silvertips last night, 5-2. Goals from Feser, Plutnar, Topping, Marcus Messier, and Nickles. Impressive boys, impressive. Feser's goal was shorthanded and he was a team-leading +3 as well.
From the scoresheet it looks like our lovely Matt MacKenzie got himself into a tussle with Tyler Maxwell with less than a minute left in the game. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a fight and/or game misconduct (he got both) an automatic 1-game suspension in pre-season?
Americans were 1-for-8 on the power play, Tips 0-for-6. Goalie Ty Rimmer started the game, made 5 saves on 6 shots. Eric Comrie played the 2nd half stopping 7 of 8. Yep, the Ams outshot the Tips 45-14. For real. That's hot. And a great game plan. Are they copying the Winterhawks' plan of 10 shots in the first 10 minutes? Possibly, they out shot Everett 16-1 in the first period.
3 comments:
It's only pre season but this rule sucks. Maxwell pushed him in the face twice and Matt did not respond. Then followed him down by the goal pushed him some more and higsticked him then began throwing punches at him. Maxwell lost the fight which was the only good thing. The game was not as close as the score suggests. Everett was dominated by our boys.
I suppose the idea of the rule is to try to prevent injuries from fights during pre-season, I don't know. Not a big deal, he'd have to sit out eventually since only 3 of the overagers can play in a game.
I didn't think the game was close at all, they outshot the Tips 45-14. That speaks volumes more than the score.
No Rankin for that game, no Rankin for the game today. Thanks, Sam.
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