Grand Rapids opened scoring 4:21 into the first period when\u00a0Dominik Shine\u00a0forced a turnover behind the Rockford net to get the puck to\u00a0Austin Watson\u00a0at the hashmarks. He flipped a pass to Leonard\u00a0on the doorstep and the Massachusetts native tapped it in to take a 1-0 lead.\u00a0Michael Brandsegg-Nygard\u00a0sent a drop pass to Lombardi\u00a0at the top of the zone 3:28 later, and he stick-handled through the right circle, back-handed the puck over the shoulder of Stanislav Berezhnoy and claimed a two-goal lead for Grand Rapids.<\/p>\n
The Griffins scored the lone goal of the second frame while on the power play when\u00a0Austin Watson\u00a0passed the puck from along the far-side boards to\u00a0Eduards Tralmaks. He slapped a one-timer past Berezhnoy to extend Grand Rapids\u2019 lead to 3-0 with 14:18 remaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With 10:21 left in the final slate,\u00a0Antti Tuomisto\u00a0passed the puck to\u00a0William Lagesson\u00a0at the left point, and he fired the puck over Berezhnoy\u2019s glove to claim a 4-0 lead for Grand Rapids. At the 11:32 mark,\u00a0Gabriel Seger\u00a0slipped a pass from the right hashmarks to Bantle in the slot, and he fired it in to capture a five-goal advantage. With 6:07 left, the IceHogs notched their lone goal of the game on the power play when Jamie Engelbert tipped in a wrist shot from Gavin Hayes, but the Griffins ultimately ran away with the victory.<\/p>\n
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Notes<\/p>\n
The Griffins penalty kill ranks second in the AHL at 87.8%, and they have gone 36-for-41 on the season.Watson extended his point streak to three games.<\/p>\n
Box Score<\/p>\n
Grand Rapids 2 1 2 – 5<\/p>\n
Rockford 0 0 1 – 1<\/p>\n
1st Period-1, Grand Rapids, Leonard 11 (Watson, Shine), 4:21. 2, Grand Rapids, Lombardi 3 (Brandsegg-Nyg\u00e5rd, Leonard), 7:49. Penalties-No Penalties<\/p>\n
2nd Period-3, Grand Rapids, Tralmaks 6 (Watson, Rychlovsk\u00fd), 5:42 (PP). Penalties-served by Thompson Rfd (too many men – bench minor), 4:33; Watson Gr (fighting), 17:36; Mylymok Rfd (fighting), 17:36.<\/p>\n
3rd Period-4, Grand Rapids, Lagesson 2 (Tuomisto, Leonard), 9:39. 5, Grand Rapids, Bantle 1 (Seger), 11:32. 6, Rockford, Engelbert 2 (Hayes, Cates), 13:53 (PP). Penalties-Bantle Gr (slashing), 0:18; Shine Gr (high-sticking), 1:02; Moyle Gr (slashing), 6:20; Doucet Gr (hooking), 13:35; Allan Rfd (hooking), 14:19; Savoie Rfd (tripping), 14:40.<\/p>\n
Shots on Goal-Grand Rapids 9-15-12-36. Rockford 7-4-14-25.<\/p>\n
Power Play Opportunities-Grand Rapids 1 \/ 3; Rockford 1 \/ 4.<\/p>\n
Goalies-Grand Rapids, Cossa 5-0-0 (25 shots-24 saves). Rockford, Berezhnoy 3-2-0 (36 shots-31 saves).<\/p>\n
A-2,406<\/p>\n
Three Stars<\/p>\n
1. GR Leonard (goal, two assists) 2. GR Watson (two assists) 3. RFD Engelbert (power-play goal)<\/p>\n
Record\/Next Game<\/p>\n
Grand Rapids: 11-0-0-1 (23 pts.) \/ Fri., Nov. 21 vs. Charlotte 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Rockford:\u00a07-8-1-1 (16 pts.) \/ Fri., Nov. 21 at Texas 8 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
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Photo by Rockford\/Kristin Ostrowski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grand Rapids opened scoring 4:21 into the first period when\u00a0Dominik Shine\u00a0forced a turnover behind the Rockford net to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,12426,42884,575,85,25667],"class_list":["post-296961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bacon","tag-dinner","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}