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GDT - The Post Komarov Era - Nov. 25th, 5pm @ Hershey

CarltonTheBear

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The Marlies play the baby-sens at 6pm tonight. Scrivens gets his 4th straight start and Colborne returns to the line-up after missing one game because of a swollen eye. The teams full line-up is as follows:

Kadri ? Aucoin ? Ashton
Deschamps ? Colborne ? Frattin
Hamilton ? McKegg ? Zigomanis
D?Amigo ? Acton ? Scott

Gardiner ? Kostka
Fraser ? Blacker
Ranger ? Holzer

Apparently I'm a game or two late on this, but I'm very glad that Eakins has finally split up that Fraser-Holzer pairing. It made no sense to me to have our only two defence-first defencemen on the same pairing. Ideally I would have liked to have seen that pairing merged with the Gardiner-Kostka pairing, as I've seen those two burned a few times while trying to do too much offensively, but I guess you can't really argue with the amount of points they are putting up right now.

There's a few potential NHLers on this Binghamton team. Robin Lehner has been one of the AHL's top goalies early this season, posting a 6-2-1 record with a GAA of 1.77 and a SA% of 0.945. Jakob Silfverberg and Mika Zibanejad are two of Ottawa's top prospects. Jared Cowen and Stephane Da Costa are both out with injuries right now.

The game is going to be broadcasted on AHL Live. Two potential links for the stream:

http://www.thefirstrow.eu/watch/154747/1/watch-ahl:-toronto-marlies-vs-binghamton-senators.html
http://atdhenet.tv/52504/watch-toronto-marlies-vs-binghamton-senators
 
Anyone have a radio link (for overseas) for those of us whose companies think that the Marlies are a non productive use of time. Apparently wasting hours looking for a radio link is productive.
 
Scrivens has been fighting the puck all season.

curious. does anyone think Burke is still content to pencil him into that backup spot should we see NHL action anytime soon?
 
RedLeaf said:
Scrivens has been fighting the puck all season.

curious. does anyone think Burke is still content to pencil him into that backup spot should we see NHL action anytime soon?
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If NHL hockey started today, he wouldn't get the job, depending on what the alternatives are.
 
Corn Flake said:
RedLeaf said:
Scrivens has been fighting the puck all season.

curious. does anyone think Burke is still content to pencil him into that backup spot should we see NHL action anytime soon?
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If NHL hockey started today, he wouldn't get the job, depending on what the alternatives are.
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Agreed. So what might the alternatives look like? I think I know what the both of us think may happen?... ;)
 
RedLeaf said:
Corn Flake said:
RedLeaf said:
Scrivens has been fighting the puck all season.

curious. does anyone think Burke is still content to pencil him into that backup spot should we see NHL action anytime soon?
Click to expand...

If NHL hockey started today, he wouldn't get the job, depending on what the alternatives are.
Click to expand...

Agreed. So what might the alternatives look like? I think I know what the both of us think may happen?... ;)
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yeah.. but that could change with one flip of a clause in this new CBA.
 
RedLeaf said:
Scrivens has been fighting the puck all season.

curious. does anyone think Burke is still content to pencil him into that backup spot should we see NHL action anytime soon?
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Scrivens may be playing himself off the team but Frattin's is close to forcing himself onto it. 4 goals in 3 games this season. 13 goals in his past 13 games including the playoffs.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
RedLeaf said:
Scrivens has been fighting the puck all season.

curious. does anyone think Burke is still content to pencil him into that backup spot should we see NHL action anytime soon?
Click to expand...

Scrivens may be playing himself off the team but Frattin's is close to forcing himself onto it. 4 goals in 3 games this season. 13 goals in his past 13 games including the playoffs.
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Frattin is a stud. Line him up next to Grabbo and Kulemin.
 
Corn Flake said:
RedLeaf said:
Scrivens has been fighting the puck all season.

curious. does anyone think Burke is still content to pencil him into that backup spot should we see NHL action anytime soon?
Click to expand...

If NHL hockey started today, he wouldn't get the job, depending on what the alternatives are.
Click to expand...

Maybe not, but, at the same time, there are a number of goalies who didn't perform so well at the AHL level that turned out to be pretty good NHL goalies, and vice versa.
 
I came in hoping to defend Scrivens(being a tender myself, it's my first instinct), but all 3 goals last night were stoppable.
 
Corn Flake said:
RedLeaf said:
Corn Flake said:
RedLeaf said:
Scrivens has been fighting the puck all season.

curious. does anyone think Burke is still content to pencil him into that backup spot should we see NHL action anytime soon?
Click to expand...

If NHL hockey started today, he wouldn't get the job, depending on what the alternatives are.
Click to expand...

Agreed. So what might the alternatives look like? I think I know what the both of us think may happen?... ;)
Click to expand...

yeah.. but that could change with one flip of a clause in this new CBA.
Click to expand...

Which clause?
 
Marlies are in Wilkes-Barre tonight to take on the Pittsburgh Penguins AHL affiliate. Ben Scrivens gets his 5th straight start of the season. Here's a bit of a preview from Marlies.ca: http://blog.marlies.ca/preview-marlies-penguins/.

The usual sites I go to for streams (atdhenet.tv and firstrowsports.eu) don't have a link for the game yet. I imagine they'll pop up closer to game time, so just check in there if you want to watch.
 
So what do we figure the factors are behind Scrivens continuing to start? Eakins hoping he works it out? Pressure from above to get the guy work?

The Marlies are currently 9 - 6 - 0 - 1 Scrivens record is 5 - 5...Rynnas is 3 - 0 - 0 - 1 and Owuya is 1 - 1.

My first question is, why are the Marlies carrying 3 goalies? 2nd, why isn't Rynnas getting more starts if his record is clearly better? His save percentage is .938....Scrivens is sitting at .898.

I'm not asking these questions to say I want Scrivens head, I haven't been able to follow as closely as I'd like. For all I know, Rynnas starts have all been against the weak teams in the league. I'm just looking for some insight from those that have a closer eye on the Marlies.
 
It looked like Rynnas was about to take over the starting job but he hurt his groin in practice last weekend. He'll likely be out for about another week.
 
http://www.thefirstrow.eu/watch/155309/1/watch-ahl-:-toronto-marlies-vs-w-b-scranton.html

Scoreless first period. I didn't see any of it but will tune into the rest of the game.
 
Only 2 goals given up, but another game where the Marlies outshoot their opponent by quite a bit and lose. 

 
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