Prospects report
It was a good weekend for the Manchester Monarchs, and especially Jonathan Bernier. The Monarchs picked up victories on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and Bernier started all four games. He allowed a total of five goals in those four games, and three of those goals came Sunday, at the end of a four-games-in-five-days stretch. Combined, Bernier stopped 100 of 105 shots. He has won six consecutive starts.
Marc-Andre Cliche, Brian Boyle and Alec Martinez each had two goals, and Trevor Lewis and Marty Murray each had four points on the week. Cliche had a ``Gordie Howe Hat Trick'' in one of hte games.
The Monarchs are 7-0-1 in their last eight, and Murry leads the team with 42 points.
In the ECHL, Jeff Zatkoff has been a bit uneven for the Ontario Reign of late, but he stopped 36 shots to beat Stockton 2-1 on Sunday. On Saturday, he stopped 18 of 21 shots to beat Bakersfield but on Friday, he stopped only 18 of 23 shots in a loss to Utah. For the season, Zatkoff is 14-9-1 with a 2.72 goals-against average and a .919 save percentage.
Thomas Hickey has 15 goals, 33 assists and a plus-31 rating in 53 games for Seattle of the Western Hockey League. Colten Teubert has 12 goals and 22 assists and a minus-8 rating in 57 games with Regina, where goalie Linden Rowat has a 2.68 GAA and a .904 save percentage in 57 games.
Martin Jones and the Calgary Hitmen are all but unstoppable in the Western Hockey League. With two games remaining in the regular season, the Hitmen have a 56-8-3-1 record. Jones is 43-4-3-1 with a 2.08 GAA and a .915 save percentage. Jones is coming off a 4-0 victory over Vancouver on Friday, in which he made 28 saves.
The Windsor Spitfires, with Andrei Loktionov, are also doing quite well, with a 56-8-0-1 record in the OHL. Loktionov had a hat trick in Friday's victory over the Plymouth Whalers, and isn't it good to know there's still a team named the Whalers out there? For the season, Loktionov has 23 goals and 41 assists in 49 games.
Manchester puts out extensive notes every week, so I'll cut and paste them after the jump...
MONARCHS NEWS & NOTES
Manchester (33-26-0-6) is undefeated in regulation in their last eight games (7-0-0-1) and on a six-game winning streak which has moved them into third place in the Atlantic Division with 72 points. The Providence Bruins (35-24-2-4) and Hartford Wolf Pack (35-24-3-3) lead the Atlantic Division with 76 points each. The Portland Pirates (30-24-3-6) rank fourth in the Atlantic Division with 69 points. The Worcester Sharks are in fifth place with 67 points (32-28-1-2) and the Lowell Devils (28-26-2-6, 64 points) are in sixth place. The Springfield Falcons sit in last place with 47 points (19-37-7- 2).
The Monarchs are 8-1-0-1 in their last 10 games and have earned a point in their last eight games which is the longest streak of gaining a point in consecutive games this season. Manchester is currently on a six-game winning streak, the best in the AHL right now.
The Monarchs are in 11th place in the AHL on the power play. The team is 52-for-300 with the man advantage for a 17.3- percent rating. Manchester has stopped their opponent 266 times on 311 power play opportunities for an 85.5-percent rating this season, good for seventh place.
The Monarchs have a winning record on two days of the week, Wednesdays and Fridays. Manchester is 7-2-0-1 on Wednesdays and 11-6-0-3 on Fridays. The Monarchs are 8-12-0-0 on Saturday's and 4-5-0-1 on Sunday's this season. When the Monarchs score first, they have gained a point in every game but four. Manchester is 21-4-0-4 in the 29 games where they have scored first.
Manchester is 18-3-0-3 when they have the lead following the first period. They are 23-3-0-2 when leading after two periods.
The Monarchs are undefeated when scoring four or more goals (15-0-0-0) and are 13-4-0-2 when they tally three goals in a game.
After going 2-4-0-1 in the month of October, the Monarchs went 7-4-0-2 in November, 7-6-0-1 in December and 3-9-0-1 in the month of January. Manchester was 9-3-0-1 in February and has a record of 5-0-0-0 in March. Center Marty Murray's (11-33=44) leads the Monarchs with 33 assists and 44 points.
Right wing Trevor Lewis (15-24=39) ranks second in overall scoring and third in goal scoring on the team. His 24 assists are also ranked third on the Monarchs. Lewis has four points (1-3=4) in his last four games including the game-winning goal in the Monarchs 4-3 win over the Worcester Sharks on Sunday, March 8. Lewis also leads the Monarchs with three shorthanded goals this season.
Reigning AHL Rookie of the Year right wing Teddy Purcell's (16-22=38) eight game scoring streak (7-9=16), the longest scoring streak by a Monarchs player this season, came to an end when he was held off the scoreboard in the 5-2 loss to Providence on Friday, February 20. The longest scoring streak in Monarchs history is center Michael Cammalleri with 25 points (14-11=25) in 14 games from October 29, 2004 - November 27, 2004. Purcell is the team's leading goal scorer with 16 tallies on the season and he ranks third in points with 38. Purcell's four-points (2-2=4) on Saturday, February 14 made him the 20th player to tally four points in one game. The franchise record for the most points in a game is five points (0-5=5) by center Jared Aulin on December 21, 2002. The second-year right wing was recalled to the Kings on February 23. In 24 games with Los Angeles this season, Purcell has 11 points (3-8=11) and two penalty minutes.
Center Justin Azevedo (10-19=29) picked up four points (1-3=4) in the Monarchs 7-2 win over Lowell on Saturday, February 21 to become the 21st player in Monarchs history to score four points in a game. Azevedo has been plagued by injuries this season but when he has been in the lineup, he's averaged just shy of a point per game. He ranks seventh on the Monarchs squad in points. The rookie center holds a five-game assist streak (0-6=6) recorded from January 21 - 31, 2009, the longest assist streak for a Monarchs player this season.
Center Gabe Gauthier (9-26=35) moved into fourth place on the roster last week. His 26 assists rank second on the Monarchs squad. Gauthier is also ranked fourth on the Monarchs all-time assists list with 91 helpers over three seasons. He is also ranked 10th in goals scored with 46 and is in seventh place with 137 points.
Left wing Matt Moulson (15-19=34) is ranked fifth overall on the Monarchs squad. The left wing recorded his second career hat trick, the Monarchs first of the season, in Manchester's 7-2 win over Lowell on Saturday, February 21. Moulson's first career hat trick came against Albany in the Monarchs 5-1 win on March 30, 2007. Manchester has 17 hat tricks in the record books during the regular season and one in the playoffs since the franchise began in the 2001-02 season Moulson took over third place in goals scored from right wing Pavel Rosa with 68 tallies over three seasons. He is also ranked seventh in assists with 79 and sixth overall in points with 147.
Right wing Scott Parse (13-20=33) leads the team with a plus/minus rating of plus-9 and ranks sixth in scoring.
Defenseman Viatcheslav Voynov (6-11=17) picked up his second game-winning goal of the season when he buried the puck past Wolf Pack goaltender Matt Zaba for the Monarchs 1-0 overtime win on Friday, March 6.
Center Marc-Andre Cliche picked up the Monarchs first Gordie Howe hat trick of the season in the Monarchs 5-1 win over the Falcons on Wednesday, March 4. Cliche picked up two goals, an assist and participated in a fight.
Defenseman Tom Preissing has been assigned to the Monarchs after clearing waivers in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The veteran blueliner has seven points (3-4=7) and six penalty minutes in 22 games with the Kings this season. He has 131 points (31-100=131) and 78 penalty minutes in 322 career NHL regular season games with the Kings, Ottawa and San Jose. He made his Monarchs debut on Saturday, March 7.
Center Brian Boyle is on a four-game point streak with two goals and two assists the Monarchs last four wins.
Netminder Jonathan Bernier is 19-17-3 with a 2.44 goals-against-average and a .911 save-percentage in 41 games with the Monarchs this season. Bernier is on a six-game winning streak stopping 152-of-159 shots he's faced in 365 minutes and 31 seconds of playing time to set a new season high winning streak. The longest winning streak by a goaltender this season prior to Bernier's current streak was when goaltender Daniel Taylor won five straight games from February 4 - 16. Taylor's five-game winning-streak came to an end on Friday, February 20 when he let in the season's three fastest goals, 58 seconds apart, in the first period against Providence. The fastest three goals scored in a game in the Monarchs franchise history were scored 57 seconds apart when the team was in Lowell on March 19, 2006. Bernier ended his franchise tying six-game losing streak on Friday, January 30 with a 3-0 win over Lowell, his second shutout of the season. He stopped all 33 shots from the Devils.
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As anthony would say, PACKAGE THEM ALL FOR GABORIK LOL!
Rich, do you see any Kings players being sent to Manchester in the case they are in the playoffs and the Kings aren't?
The good news about this organization continues! We are loaded with top level prospects. Hockey news ranked us #1 in their Future watch issue.
Anon- the AHL has something called Clear Day; rather than trying to explain it myself, here's the AHL description: "Each Clear Day roster consists of a maximum of 22 players. According to AHL by-laws, only those players listed on a team’s Clear Day roster are eligible to compete in the remainder of the 2006-07 AHL regular season and in the 2007 Calder Cup Playoffs, unless emergency conditions arise as a result of recall, injury or suspension. Teams may also add signed junior players or players on amateur tryout contracts, only after their respective junior or college seasons are complete."
Clear Day rosters for this year are due at 3 PM EST Mar 11 (tomorrow) so not likely the kings would send anyone down now, given they're in the thick of the playoff race.
Hickey... PLUS-31???
'Bout freakin time!!
Let's get him up to Manchester... mach schnell!!!
From the Monarchs blog:
Highest Paid Monarchs All-Time
1. Dan Cloutier, G, 2007, $3.1 million
2. Tom Preissing, D, 2009, $2.75 million
3. Oleg Tverdovsky, D, 2007, $2.5 million
4. Stephane Fiset, G, 2000-01, $2.35 million
5. Steve Heinze, RW, 2001-02, $1.75 million
6. Milan Hnilicka, G, 2003-04, $1.45 million
7. *Alexandre Daigle, RW, 2006, $800,000
7. Jason LaBarbera, G, 2006-07, $800,000
9. **Oscar Moller, C, 2009, $637,500
10. Maxim Kuznetsov, D, 2003-04, $575,000
10. **Brad Richardson, C, 2009, $575,000
12. **John Zeiler, RW, 2008, $525,000
13. **Mike Weaver, D, 2007, $500,000
14. **Kevin Dallman, D, 2007, $465,000
15. Marty Murray, C, 2007, $450,000
15. ***Joe Rullier, D, 2006, $450,000
*Daigle was on loan from San Antonio (AHL) and paid by the Minnesota Wild. He was the first number one NHL pick to ever play with the Monarchs.
**Two-week conditioning stint from Los Angeles.
***Rullier was on loan from Hartford (AHL) and paid by the N.Y. Rangers
The Kings should send Purcell and maybe a couple others down since they have a few days off and can recall them before Friday's game. Any playoff experience is better than none. I think they have to play one game after being sent down for it to count, though, so when is the 'Narchs next game?
"Jones is 43-4-3-1 with a 2.08 GAA and a .915 save percentage"
That's insane! Another solid goalie prospect for the Kings.