Sure wish the Aeros could've sunk more teeth into their game against the Admirals.
Briefly: The Aeros (26 SOG) lost in Overtime to Admirals (20 SOG) 1-2.
Scratches for the Aeros: Fraser, Rogers and the usual injured (Almond, Testwuide and Hilbert)
Scratches for Admirals:Cashman, Maaki, McKenzie, Van Guilder.
Ads Goalie, was again Chet Pickard, who stopped 25 of 26 shots on goal.
Aeros put Anton Khudobin in the net. AK allowed goal Nr. 1 at 4; 19 in the first period by Ryan Jones(28) Scatchard (36) and O'Reilly.
Maxim Noreau seemed rather visible in the center of things, slamming powerful shot after shot at the goal from 'miles' away ( did he take Soccer kicking lessons?), but alas, none made it 'home'.
IMO DiSalvatore (14) was not as effective as ususal, while Rau (20), Smith(8) and Stoner(7) shone in getting face offs.
Brandon Buck (16) skated remarkably well, considering it was ONLY his 2. game with the team. Good choice by the 'powersthatbe' in hauling him back from the Florida "swamp" ;-).
Kassian (42) was off ice more-so no 'fights to the kill', so to speak.
Some bumbling shooting and missed passes (hey, pass to white jerseys, please) made for less than entertaining sights.
Daoust, also somewhat uncoordinated at first, frequently 'overskating' the puck and looking round (where DID it go?), later seemed to have found his 'icelegs' again - 'The Scrapper' played more effectively.
Admirals newcomer #33 Colin Wilson on a 'reconditioning send down' seemed healthy to me, he was fast, made it to the Aeros net many times at breakneck speed (heart stopping moments for the fans) only to be thwarted by some defenders.
Periods one and two stayed 0-1 for Ads, UNTIL at 19:57 Petr Kalus (32) banged it in after receiving the puck from Maxim Noreau (26) - Aeros 1- Ads 1,
and so it stayed through the rest of regulation time.
At 2:39 into the 5 minutes 4 on 4 overtime, O'Reilly (16) with the assist of the RABBIT # 40 (no not Peter Rabbit-WACEY Rabbit) got the rebound into the net, after AK had stopped the first try, and made it 2 for the Admirals, ending this strange game.
Overall, less than stellar effort by the Aeros as a team, although individual players played well, but .... well individually!
Zingoni tries really hard, but..., Sifers tries hard, but..., Brandon Buck tries hard, but..., Rau tries hard, but..., Smith tries hard, but..., Irmen tries hard, but..., Gunderson tries, but...!
Falk, Milroy, Gillies, McMillan and Lannon try the best they can, but... Kalus, Noreau put in good work this afternoon, but...!
And yet...how to put it?
The guys skated fast, skated well, did ok in passing and defending... BUT... (someone like Corey Locke is definitely missing) .
Penalties called :on Aeros in 1.: Stoner(interference), Milroy (roughing) , Falk (hooking) which followed him into period 2. And on Ads : Scatchard (36) high sticking, and Olvecki (38) for tripping.
In 2.period: No Aeros penalties and only 2 on Ads #20 Matheson for hooking, Jones # 28 for holding.
In the 3. period: Jones #28 sat for the Ads for too many men on the ice.
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